Image generators look increasingly production-ready until you ask them to remember where everybody was.

Image generators look increasingly production-ready until you ask them to remember where everybody was. I put Nano Banana 2.1, Nano Banana Pro and GPT 2.5 Sunburst through five filmmaking tests using the same character sheets, props and locations. Action. Blocking. A camera move. An edit. Then a crowded battlefield. Sunburst came out strongest overall. The interesting part was how they failed.