After an hour of generating, feelings are as dusty as the attic air. A fixed set of checks is stricter and faster: five of them, run the same way every time, against the attic card you wrote before the session began.
The five checks
1. Likeness. Is she the woman on the card, or a near relative? Judge against the card, not the previous frame.
2. Hands. Hands first, then joints, then anything the pose bends. Anatomy errors show at thumbnail size.
3. Light. One source, behaving consistently across skin, fabric and beams — name the round window’s direction on the card.
4. Edges. Hair against the beams, fingers against props, lace against skin.
5. Purpose. Does the frame do the one job it was briefed for?
The threshold that saves money
Score each check out of two; eight of ten earns finishing spend — an edit at 21 credits, a swap at 26, an upscale at 61. Below eight, the frame returns to the generator at 6 credits, where correction is cheapest. Date the scores and keep them with the set.