higgsfield-workspaces

# Higgsfield Workspaces — Task-First Decision Layer

## Introduction

Higgsfield is organized around workspaces, each one tuned for a specific kind of
production work. The right starting question is not "which model should I use?"
but "what am I actually trying to make?" Inside a workspace, model choice still
matters — it shapes quality, speed, and cost — but a workspace mismatch costs
more time than a suboptimal model. Pick the workspace by the task, then pick the
model by the result you want.

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## The Decision Matrix

| Your production problem | Start with workspace |
|-------------------------|----------------------|
| Cinematic scene with deliberate camera direction | Cinema Studio |
| Speaking character, dubbing, or avatar video | Lipsync Studio |
| Rough idea, sketch, or storyboard test | Draw to Video / Sketch to Video |
| Fast short-form or viral-style content | Sora 2 Trends |
| Product ad or ecommerce variation | Click to Ad |
| Narration, voice swap, or translation | Higgsfield Audio |

If the user's task matches more than one row, pick the workspace whose output
most closely resembles the final deliverable — you can always chain into another
workspace for polish or audio later.

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## Workspace Descriptions

### Cinema Studio

The professional filmmaking environment on Higgsfield. Built for multi-shot,
character-consistent sequences where camera direction, genre framing, and visual
cohesion matter. Cinema Studio 2.5 offers optical physics (camera body + lens
stack) and built-in color grading; Cinema Studio 3.0 (Business/Team plan) adds
native audio, Smart camera planning, and longer durations. Choose this workspace
when the work needs to feel like a film. For prompt construction, Director Panel
use, optical stack selection, and multi-shot planning, see `higgsfield-cinema`.

### Lipsync Studio

The workspace for putting words into a character's mouth. It pairs an image,
video, or generated face with an audio track and synchronizes the lip movement
to the speech. Use it for dubbed performances, talking-head avatars, character
dialogue, and lipsync work layered on top of existing video generations. For
audio layer design (dialogue, SFX, ambient, BGM) that feeds into Lipsync Studio,
see `higgsfield-audio`. For character reference management and Soul Cast avatar
generation that commonly sits upstream, see `higgsfield-soul`.

### Draw to Video / Sketch to Video

The workspace for taking a rough sketch, blocking diagram, or storyboard panel
and turning it into a generated video. It exists to bridge the gap between
paper-stage ideation and motion testing — the place to validate a shot idea
before it earns the credits and time of a full Cinema Studio build.

**When to use:**
- Early ideation, when you're still deciding what the shot wants to be.
- Shot blocking experiments — testing how a composition reads in motion.
- Pre-production validation before committing to Cinema Studio scene work.
- Fast iteration on framing, staging, and silhouette before the prompt or
  reference set is locked.

**Input characteristics:** the workspace is forgiving. Hand-drawn storyboards,
blocking diagrams with stick figures or geometric placeholders, even a crude
napkin sketch all work as input. Quality of line is not the point — clarity of
compositional intent is. A messy sketch with a clear staging idea outperforms
a polished sketch whose staging is muddled.

**The prompt's role:** the sketch carries composition and blocking; the prompt
carries everything else. Subject details, environment, lighting, mood, and
material qualities all live in the prompt. Think of the prompt as describing
the realized scene the sketch was hinting at — the sketch told the engine
*where* things sit and *how* they move; the prompt tells it *what* they are.

**Output expectations:** test-quality, short. The output is a tool for shot
validation, not usually the final delivery. Treat the result as a draft, then
either refine the prompt (if blocking is right but the realized scene is off)
or re-block with a new sketch (if the staging itself needs to change).

**Two prompt patterns:**

- **Realization pattern** — describe the scene the sketch was pointing toward,
  including lighting and mood, and end with a camera direction that matches
  what the sketch implies. Use this when you want a faithful interpretation
  of the rough drawing.
- **Variation pattern** — keep the blocking implicit (the sketch handles it)
  and use the prompt to swap style, lighting, genre, or time-of-day across
  multiple generations. Same composition, different treatments. Useful for
  picking a visual direction before committing.

**Cross-reference:** when the test reads well and you want a longer, multi-shot
realization, move into Cinema Studio with the validated blocking in mind. If
you need higher fidelity earlier in the process — a pre-rendered hero frame
that subsequent shots can reference — the Hero Frame workflow inside Cinema
Studio is the alternative path. See `higgsfield-cinema` for that handoff.

### Sora 2 Trends

A templated workspace built on top of the Sora 2 model, tuned for trend-led
short-form content. The distinction worth holding onto: this is *not* the same
as selecting Sora 2 as a raw model elsewhere on the platform. Trends wraps the
model in pre-tuned templates optimized for viral pacing, vertical framing,
and quick iteration cycles. The templating is the point — it does work that
would otherwise have to be re-invented every shot.

**When to use:**
- TikTok, Reels, and Shorts deliverables — anywhere the format itself is more
  important than full cinematic control.
- Trend-jacking, where speed of iteration and platform fluency beat per-shot
  polish.
- Content where the audience expects a specific format-native rhythm rather
  than a deliberate director's hand.

**Distinguishing features:**
- **Vertical-first composition.** 9:16 is the default, with 1:1 and 4:5 also
  common. Compositions are framed for phones, not for film.