# Cartoon Modern × Flash Era Web Animation — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cartoon-modern+flash-era
# Cartoon Modern carries the structure. Flash Era Web Animation appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Cartoon Modern (Style, 1943–1959) and its accent from Flash Era Web Animation (Style, 1998–2010). Structural cues: Flat color fields; Omitted outlines; Figures as shapes; Abstract backgrounds. Accent cues, used sparingly: Thick vector outlines; Tweened transformation; Splash pages; Cursor-following play. Composition: Backgrounds reduced to color fields, figures placed as shapes. Type and lettering: Hand lettering, uneven, sitting on the same plane as the color. Let one material quality come from the second style: Simple vector shapes moved by tweening, with photographs kept out. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Cartoon Modern: Copying the flat look while keeping smooth Disney movement, so the drawing style and the motion style contradict each other.
# - Flash Era Web Animation: Making the intro a rite of passage with no way to skip turns it into a slow obstacle for anyone arriving a second time.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cartoon-modern/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/flash-era/design.md