Xavania Original · Feature
The Gauge
98% match2024PG-131h 48mHDR · 4K5.1 + Binaural
A rail engineer refuses to abandon her line.
When the last regional railway is scheduled for closure, an engineer keeps the night service running out of her own pocket for one final winter.
Cast & digital humans
Kaia Nakamura
Lead@kaia26-1
On screen: passenger by the window
Voice print: dry baritone, tight room, no reverb
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe, voice locked
Dov Iyer
Supporting@dov26-2
On screen: conductor in the aisle
Voice print: bright mezzo with breath detail
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe, voice locked
Berit Okonkwo
Supporting@berit26-3
On screen: sleeping traveller opposite
Voice print: low gravel, chest-forward
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe, voice locked
Sound design — every person, action and object
Dialogue & voice
- Kaia Nakamura — Trailer VO pass — recorded on the same voice print used in every generated take.Close lav + boom blend, dialogue seated at -23 LUFS
- Dov Iyer — Two on-camera lines, lip-sync verified frame-by-frame against the render.Boom only, room-matched IR
Foley — frame-matched to the render
Aisle footsteps
Boot on carpeted board with a hollow subfloor, each step slightly off-balance to match the carriage sway
Bogie and rail joints
Clack pattern timed to the visible sleeper-blur rate — four-beat cadence, with a longer gap over the visible switch
Carriage sway
Body creak from the coach frame, panned left-right in phase with the on-screen roll
Brass latch
Cold-metal thumb-lever snap and spring return, one per visible hand action
Teacup
Rattle in the saucer only while the coach is rolling; goes still when the frame steadies
Wool coat
Dry period-wool rustle, no synthetic sheen, on every arm and shoulder move
Ambience beds
- • Wheel roar under the floor, low-passed and constant
- • Wind at the window seal, rising on the visible tunnel approach
- • Distant carriage chatter through two doors
Score
Solo cello and brushed timpani in amber; motif enters on the reverse angle, never over the latch
Mix- • 5.1 and binaural stereo folds from one bed
- • Dialogue -23 LUFS, trailer master -14 LUFS, true peak -1 dBTP
- • Every foley element is placed from the object's on-screen position and follows it as the camera moves
- • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on