The daily courtesy at this bench is sized to the crate: check in, collect 6 credits, make one standard frame. A picture a day is not a teaser — judged honestly against the card, it is a series pace that finishes a set inside a month without a single pack. Packs are for the workloads that outgrow the pace, and the craft is knowing which days those are.
The routine that lasts is unglamorous. Prove new characters at standard cost, never at premium. Spend edits at 21 only on frames that pass the card and miss by one detail. Spend swaps at 26 only on proven pairings. Keep upscalers — 61 for images, from 101 for video — in the crate until a frame has a destination that demands the size.
Video is drawn on last and most carefully, because its quotes run by duration and resolution and are printed before the job runs. Read the figure the way a careful keeper reads a stock list: before committing, not after.
Nothing at this bench charges silently, and a failed job refunds itself back into stock. The only way to empty the crate early is to stop reading the quotes.