The practice today

Few of the earlier workflows died outright. The frame-by-frame instinct became the storyboard as first frame, video-to-video became video references and motion control, the still frame became the character sheet, the prompt became a bundle of thirty references, the editing primitives became one edit propagating across a thirty-second scene, and agents now route much of it. Stronger models, one-take scenes, native audio, agents in the app and in the terminal, coding agents that build the missing tools, and true HDR delivery are what turned those techniques into a repeatable practice.