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A flat-illustration desert at night: a car on a winding road, saguaro cacti in silhouette, a huge orange sun low behind mesas.

Generated still — personal work

Palette

  • #152a45
  • #a74561
  • #fb6958
  • #4a96aa
  • #fde562
Illustrated1:14:516:9

Desert Vector

Near-flat vector on a tight palette. Depth comes from layered silhouette rather than shading.

Works for

  • Poster and key-art work
  • Anything that must survive being reproduced small or in few colours
  • Scenes that read better as graphic shape than as photograph

Fails on

  • Detailed subjects — the flat treatment has nowhere to put the detail
  • Adding realistic shading, which breaks the graphic logic
  • Palettes beyond about six colours; the discipline is the style
  • Vector
  • Illustrated
  • Limited palette
  • Poster

Depth here is entirely stacking order and value, not light. Each plane is a flat silhouette a step lighter or darker than the one behind it. That is why it holds up at any size, and why one gradient in the wrong place undoes the whole thing.

No motion spec yet. This entry is a still, and motion character is half of a video style — how it eases, how much it drifts, what it does on a cut. Until that is defined and tested, the field is left empty rather than guessed at.

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