Glass Orbs

Reading closely is looking through a lens: clear, frosted and tinted glass spheres drift round a floating iPad, part to reveal the page assembling from layers, then settle in an arc behind the device under the name.

A seamless studio cove, soft and bright, with a warm key and a cool fill, where clear, frosted and tinted glass spheres drift and part, bending whatever lies behind them, then settle into a soft arc. Five unhurried beats over 30 s at 96 bpm: a slow push in, a parting turn, a lingering ultra close-up, a held detail, and a gentle pull back to rest.

Length: 30 s
Scenes: 5
Device: ipad
Style: abstract
Camera: push in, ultra closeup, pull back

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    ABS-ORBS — 30 s, 16:9, 30 fps. ABSTRACT 7 · GLASS ORBS. Sample app: Lens (reading / research, iPad).
    Treatment: treatment.md.

    THE IDEA. Reading closely is looking through a lens. Clear, frosted and tinted glass spheres
    drift slowly in front of and around a floating iPad on a pale studio cyc; they part to reveal
    the screen, which assembles out of its layers (paper, marks, words, chrome); a marker sweeps a
    sentence in an ultra close-up; a margin note opens and types; the orbs settle into a soft arc
    behind the device under the name.

    REFRACTION — WHAT WAS VERIFIED (probe/probe.promo, shot in this folder). The screen is a
    ui3d(overlay=screen) stage, and overlays are NOT captured by three's transmission pass: an orb
    passing in front of a lit screen renders the device's black glass mesh, a black disc over the
    page. So the film is composed the other way round:
      · in the HOOK the screen is OFF (black glass): orbs cross it freely and read as dark lenses
        with bright rims — exactly what real glass over a black slab does;
      · once the screen is lit, orbs pass BESIDE and AROUND it, never over it in projection, and
        catch its glow (an area light laid on the glass, `light#glow`, ramps up as the page lands);
      · what the orbs visibly bend is the hook copy "Read closer." (text3d is an opaque mesh, so it
        refracts) and the pale cyc / the other orbs.

    THE WORLD. A seamless pale studio cyc (floor plane + a quarter-cylinder cove = a plane bent 90°
    on its x axis + back wall), lit by two large soft area panels (warm key upper left, cool fill
    right), a soft hemisphere and one shadow-casting directional for the floating device's shadow.
    The iPad (silver) floats at (0, 440, 0) and never translates: it turns (rotation channel) and
    the camera moves. Ten orbs per scene, five glass recipes.

    PALETTE. cyc #ECE8E2 · ink #1C1B22 · brand indigo #4A4FD6 · paper #FBF8F3 · mute #5E5950 ·
             marks: amber #FFDC7A, rose #FFC9D3, mint #BDEBD2 · glass tints amber #FFB84A,
             indigo #8A8FFF, blush #FFB3C4

    SCREEN SPACE. iPad glass 197 x 262 mm (portrait), glass radius 7 mm (every full-screen root card
    r=7). Five full-screen ui3d layers (lift 0.5–0.9, render_order 1–5) over a black base; root
    cards carry the tracks as screen-mm deltas (x right, y DOWN, +z off the glass).

    BEATS AND SCENES (music 96 BPM, a bar = 2.5 s; every cut on a bar line):
      o1-hook      0–5      dark iPad among drifting orbs; "Read closer." rises on the cyc; orbs
                            cross the black glass and bend the lettering; slow push in
      o2-assemble  5–12.5   the orbs part (0–1.8); the iPad turns 38°; the page ASSEMBLES: paper,
                            marks, words, chrome stream in (0.8–4.15) to a staircase +36/+72/+108,
                            read, then pack home magnetic (snaps 10.55/10.75/10.95) as it turns back
      o3-mark      12.5–17.5 ULTRA close-up along the key sentence (side=front fill 152–155, yaw
                            −56/−58, fov 10, dof 55/12) while the amber marker sweeps three lines
      o4-note      17.5–22.5 the margin note GROWS (expand-input: a pill opens top-pinned, steps a
                            line on the wrap) and types "Core claim. Quote this / in my essay, ch. 3."
                            (typewriter); Saved pops
      o5-end       22.5–30  pull back: the orbs settle into a soft arc behind the iPad; "Lens"
                            (indigo text3d) and "Read closer. Remember more." to the left

    TEMPLATE SWAP POINTS — re-skinning this for another app:
      1. NAME / COPY: text3d#e-name (app name), text3d#e-tag (tagline), text3d#h-cap (hook line);
         the typed note = text#nt-l1 / text#nt-l2 in o4 (typewriter windows 1.8–2.9 / 3.15–4.0,
         ~0.05 s per extra character).
      2. PALETTE: brand indigo in material m-brand; cyc tone in m-cyc + background colours; glass