# Cracktro × Metalheart — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cracktro+metalheart
# Cracktro carries the structure and Metalheart appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Cracktro (style, 1980s-1990s) and their accent from Metalheart (style, 1995–2004).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Cracktro exists for: bolting a short screen to the front of something being passed around, to give the group's name, or packing a burst of sound and image into an executable with a small size budget. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Cracktro

- Text scrolling endlessly across the screen
- Bands of color running behind it
- An oversized group name held at the center
- A run of greetings naming other groups

Composition: Hold the oversized group name at the centre and keep the effect moving around it. Type and lettering: Monospaced bitmap letters running the greetings along the bottom without a break.

## Accent comes from Metalheart, used sparingly

- Liquid-metal chrome
- Aggressive bevels
- Lens flares
- Techno and sci-fi typography

Let one material quality come from it: Chrome, liquid metal, lens flare, reflections carrying surrounding color.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #e6fbfd, carry the structure in #3a80c5 and #0a0f13, and let a single accent come from #7f96a8. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: technique, rebellion, exhilaration, futurity.

## What goes wrong

- Cracktro: Line up the effects but drop the name and the run of greetings, and the calling card is gone, leaving only a short piece of animation.
- Metalheart: Polishing it clean in current software removes the rawness that came from the crude renderers of the time, and it becomes something else.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cracktro/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/metalheart/design.md