# Cel Animation × Rotoscope — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cel-animation+rotoscope
# Cel Animation carries the structure. Rotoscope 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 Cel Animation (Technique, 1915–1990s) and its accent from Rotoscope (Technique, 1915–). Structural cues: Layered transparent cels; Uniform paint; Background separated from movement; Traced ink lines. Accent cues, used sparingly: Movement from live action; Wavering contours; Bodies with weight; Between film and drawing. Composition: Split moving and still elements into layers and compose each layer. Type and lettering: Titles live on their own layer, never sharing a plane with the cels. Let one material quality come from the second style: Vary the line weight and let the contour keep wavering. Mood: Intimacy, Nostalgia, Technology. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Animation Techniques, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
# - Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Cel Animation: Calling it cel shading while adding gradients and soft shadows, which muddies the area inside the outline and loses the strength of the flat plane.
# - Rotoscope: Tracing without deciding what a drawing should keep and what it should drop, so the movement is accurate and the image has nothing to look at.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cel-animation/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/rotoscope/design.md