# Direct Animation × Photogram — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=direct-animation+photogram
# Direct Animation carries the structure. Photogram 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 Direct Animation (Technique, 1935–) and its accent from Photogram (Technique, 1830s– / avant-garde revival). Structural cues: Hand-drawing on film; Scratched marks; Continuity that ignores frames; Physical blots of color. Accent cues, used sparingly: Cameraless; Object contours; Reversed values; Contact and distance. Composition: Ignore the frame line and pull marks as long continuous bands. Type and lettering: Write letters by hand one frame at a time and keep the drift. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photo paper, lamp height, exposure time, distance controlling edge hardness. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Intimacy, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f0eee5, #73777a, #111315. 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
# - Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
# - Roughly 105 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Direct Animation: Laying one scanned scratch texture over the footage so the dirt sits still instead of changing every single frame.
# - Photogram: This is not black and white abstraction in general. Merely arranging unusual objects records only shadows, while transparency and distance from the sensitized surface are what make the image.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/direct-animation/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/photogram/design.md