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Nihonga
▶ Demo clip: https://youtu.be/L-0-JdbrYXw
Group: New in v2.2 · Fits: mineral pigment on gold leaf
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Type: custom, tested in production (run; grade pending)
- Medium phrase: "A nihonga painting, modern Japanese-style painting in natural mineral pigments bound in animal glue on paper, widescreen 16:9, the painting filling the whole frame." Video anchor: "Nihonga animation: flat matte mineral-pigment fields with fine black ink outline on a gold-leaf ground, no shading and no cast shadows, forms that move in a slow stepped cadence while staying flat and crisply outlined, painted, not rendered."
- Character design: flat, matte, opaque fields of pigment with a fine even black ink outline; white subjects as flat shell-white with a few ink lines for plumes; flowers and leaves as single tapering flat shapes in malachite, ultramarine and violet.
- Materials / rendering: gold leaf laid in squares with faint seams and a soft sheen; slightly granular matte pigment; water as a few flat bands with thin wavy ink lines; large areas of plain gold; asymmetrical, still composition.
- Light: flat, even, shadowless; depth from overlap and placement only.
- Motion: a leg lowered, a head turned, a neck stretched, in a slow stepped cadence; camera locked.
- Stability line: "Strictly flat matte mineral pigment with fine black ink outline on gold leaf, no shading, no highlights, no cast shadows, no gradients, the pigment surface slightly granular and stable, the gold seams visible throughout, consistent flat drawing of the subject."
- Guards: no shading, no cast shadows, no gradients, no watercolour bleeding, no woodblock print texture, no red seal, no photographic subject, no photorealism, no 3D rendering, no live-action look.
- Known failures: the drift to watch is toward ukiyo-e print or watercolour; both are named in the guards.
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