Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Scanimate: One element on black, stretched from far to near
- Type
- Set in Scanimate's manner (Heavy single letters lit from inside their own outline), and let Synthwave's lettering (Oblique sans with script accents) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Scanimate's material (Scanlines and rainbow bleed, with color fringing left on the edges); bring in exactly one thing from Synthwave (Black, magenta, cyan, glow).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #100b2f, #ff2ca7, #24d9ff.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Scanimate Layering glow and scanlines on top while the undulation itself still moves with the smooth interpolation of today's tools.
- Synthwave Sun and grid alone are overfamiliar. Add story elements of your own.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Scanimate (Technique, 1969–1980s) and its accent from Synthwave (Style, 1980s imagined future). Structural cues: Glowing outlines; Electronic undulation; Rainbow glow; Scanline texture. Accent cues, used sparingly: Neon; Perspective grid; Sunset; Black sky. Composition: One element on black, stretched from far to near. Type and lettering: Heavy single letters lit from inside their own outline. Let one material quality come from the second style: Black, magenta, cyan, glow. Mood: Technology, Nostalgia, Exhilaration, Futurism. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #100b2f, #ff2ca7, #24d9ff. 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.
Related entries
- Scanimate 1969–1980s / Technique / Broadcast Design
An analog video synthesizer that distorted images on a CRT electrically and in real time. It is the true source of the glowing, flying, undulating logos of 1970s and 80s television, and it carried the motion industry before digital.
- Synthwave 1980s imagined future / Style / Digital Retro
Replays the future the 1980s imagined, in neon and horizon lines.
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