Is the idea here to basically transform the almost unlimited degrees of freedom an AI has in manipulating rastered image properties from one frame to another in a limited set of known things it can change?

I mean, unless its a wild magic sci-fi movie, it makes sense that once a character is known in separation to its background, that the background doesn't change with a hands movement of the character. And the character cannot move beyond earthy physics?

Is that what this is?