“Here’s my passport photo—turn it into a 4-second Tokyo night-rain scene, 24 fps, no budget.” If that request sounds familiar, the engineering story below is worth frame-by-frame inspection. The Identity Problem No One Has Solved (Yet) Text-to-video models got stunningly good at motion, yet one stubborn artifact refuses to behave: a human face. DreamBooth fans fine-tune 10 GB weights—motion turns to PowerPoint. Frame-by-frame stylists melt GPUs and still twitch the chin. Copy-paste crews swap backgrounds, but the first head-turn shatters the illusion. Lynx’s take? Keep the giant frozen, clip on two tiny cheat-sheets. An ID-Adapter memorizes the五官 (facial features), a …