1326 images across 26 collections, recovered from pre-draft-3 exploration history that was purged from the live site in March 2026 to fit deploy size limits. Preserved here for reference. Main archive: index.
Phase 1 — earliest broad style + character exploration.
Storyboard scene explorations mapping the book's spreads.
Exploration round 3.
Exploration round 4.
Exploration round 5.
Exploration round 6.
Phase 3 exploration pass.
Style version V2 iterations.
Style version V3 iterations.
Style version V4 iterations.
Style version V5 iterations.
V5 reference-image set.
V5 research / study images.
Cute-eyes character eye studies.
Cute-eyes studies, version 2.
Dot character design iterations.
Cell / mixed-media layer studies.
AI style sketch tests.
Character mockup sheets (Ollie / Dot).
Founder feedback round revisions.
Character call round 2 — Ollie, Dot, whale pairs, and refined Ollie studies (arm poses, eye/eyebrow variations, dot-fixed).
Old Dot generations (nbp-round1) captured just before the character was regenerated with the corrected design.
Images that only ever existed on local feature branches, never merged to main.
Batch 16 'swimming away' 3D character-consistency tests (unmerged branch batch16-swimming-away).
Reef-edge shallow-environment concept components, v14 (unmerged branch components-v14).
Nano Banana Pro test & model comparison for hide-seek / reef-edge / sunny-reef (unmerged branch nbp-test-and-comparison).
OpenAI image-model tests for hide-seek / reef-edge / sunny-reef spreads (unmerged branch openai-test-viewer).
Early-era recovery. 1370 files total (1326 images + data/prompt sidecars). Intentionally excluded: Vertex wrong-model tests and Batch 17 (founder-rejected content).