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Oil Painting
▶ Demo clip: https://youtu.be/kUhlSxg5RVo
Group: New in v2.2 · Fits: impasto, old-master lighting
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Type: custom, tested in production (pass)
- Medium phrase: "Oil painting in thick impasto on coarse linen canvas, widescreen 16:9." Video anchor: "Oil-painting animation in thick impasto on coarse linen canvas: visible brush and palette-knife strokes, a dark scumbled ground and one warm light, brushstrokes that hold their place while the subject moves slowly, painted, not rendered."
- Character design: skin, collars and hands in thick creamy impasto with ridges and knife highlights; clothing in broad confident strokes with canvas weave showing in the shadows; the background thin and scumbled.
- Materials / rendering: visible brush marks, knife ridges catching light, cracked glaze in the darks, slight sheen on the thickest paint, coarse linen texture.
- Light: a single warm source (candle, window) as the only light, deep warm shadow opposite; shallow depth implied by paint handling, not blur.
- Motion: the smallest beats: a candle flicker, a page turn, a slow head turn. Camera locked. Painterly styles boil when pushed.
- Stability line: "Strictly thick impasto oil paint on coarse linen canvas, visible brush and knife marks, canvas weave showing in the shadows, brushstrokes that stay in place and do not boil, swim or re-paint, stable colour, consistent painting of the figure."
- Guards: no photographic skin, no smooth digital surfaces, no gradients, no ink lines, no photorealism, no 3D rendering, no live-action look, no change to the lighting, no scene darkening, no legible words on pages.
- Known failures: none in the test take (woman reading by candlelight). "Brushstrokes that stay in place and do not boil, swim or re-paint" is the line doing the work; reuse it for acrylic.
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