Staged studio site · DVD main menu
Javier Calleja's studio opens as a living 2000s theater lobby: a DVD main menu staged for review, backed by a shared creator platform.
The engagement
Xaebs is Javier Calleja Erdmann's directing studio. It complements his broader personal portfolio at javicalleja.com, documented in the Javier Calleja — Portfolio case study. The studio site is staged at xaebs.euphemios.com for owner review: an original theater lobby with a blue neon wordmark, an intro that moves from static to neon, a DVD menu and Javier's photographed signature. This delivery covers the main menu; film pages are the next milestone.
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The early-2000s theater mood had to work as a usable DVD menu on desktop and phone, with ambient motion that preserves readability and keyboard access. The catalog and settings needed to come from the shared platform rather than a fixed list in the page. Festival-hold titles also needed still previews without exposing playable footage, and devices without accelerated canvas needed a usable lobby without the animation cost.
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An original lobby plate anchors the scene, with animated lighting, grain and a localized light sweep over the neon wordmark. Scene Selection, Special Features and Set Up are native disclosures, closed by default; title previews reveal from right to left. The server renders the catalog from the Supabase platform core, with row-level security (RLS) governing access and editable ordering, featured work and front-end settings. A measured motion governor settles to a still lobby when accelerated canvas is unavailable or rendering exceeds its budget; reduced-motion preferences also preserve a calm menu. The same creator platform supplies self-hosted HLS video and password and premiere screening infrastructure, and is built to also serve the planned premiere site for Marty Frees the Dino Ghosts. That foundation is built; the Xaebs film pages that will present it are next.
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Milestone C is built and staged for owner review. Film pages are the next milestone and are not part of this delivery.
The studio menu reads catalog and settings from a shared creator platform whose core already provides self-hosted video and independent password and premiere screenings.
Festival-hold titles never expose playable footage in the lobby; the resting main menu shows the original lobby, menu and signature without film frames.
Production mobile Lighthouse runs in the release gate scored 95–99 for performance and 100 for accessibility.
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