Price, then make, living portraits for the title intros.

A motion close is a person's LIVING PORTRAIT for their title intro: one WAN shot of their face and shoulders from their cast portrait, the person looking straight into the lens and holding still — breath, an occasional blink, lips closed — lit and graded like the deck (its Series Bible's look), at 480p, silent, 3 seconds on the 2 s bell (the flash's beat plus room), in shadow when the sequence keeps them in shadow. PRICED FIRST — TWO CALLS on the API and the CLI, two tools on MCP and in chat (quote_render_pitch_deck_title_motion_closes, then render_pitch_deck_title_motion_closes): without confirmed it prices every person whose intro is not yet their living portrait (motionClosesNeeded in the read: about 6 people × 3 s at 480p for a father and his sons), or the people named in names (a new take of someone who has one is priced again), and spends nothing; with confirmed: true it reserves exactly those lines and renders them. Allowed while the deck is in review or complete. When each lands it is checked like a take (a file that decodes, silent, its length) and the master is re-assembled with it, free; a render that fails or is refused is released (nothing charged). Read each one back as titleSequence.motionCloses (livingPortrait false: a moving close made before 2026-10-07, which no longer opens an intro). Refused before the price: a deck that has not rendered, no title sequence, every intro already its living portrait, a name the sequence does not have (400), a person whose living portrait is already on its way, a person with no cast portrait to render from, or a portrait prompt row not yet rolled out — with the fix in details.refusal. Requires Idempotency-Key. Scope: artifact:publish — a read-only key can neither spend nor ask what spending would cost.