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# Two Rivers at Moonrise — Art Direction
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## Visual language
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Painterly storybook fantasy for original fictional adults: vibrant natural colour, soft brush texture, expressive faces, cinematic light, detailed architecture, and grounded human proportions. Camera height remains near adult eye level. Environments use wide 16:9 side-view compositions with a clear walk lane in the lower third.
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## Cultural distinction
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- Lima and the palace-city draw specifically from Bengali textiles, river culture, terracotta craft, muslin, jamdani-inspired geometry, flower garlands, food presentation, and climate.
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- Z’s clothing draws specifically from Pakistani tailoring and textiles: a structured kurta or sherwani-influenced long coat, waistcoat details, ajrak-informed geometry where appropriate, and practical scholar/traveller accessories.
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- These references remain visibly distinct. Avoid a generic blended “South Asian” costume language.
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- Sacred or ceremonial motifs are not used as arbitrary decoration. No pseudo-script or generated lettering appears in artwork.
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## Continuity
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Z is 27, with warm brown skin, dark wavy hair, a short neat beard, a teal long coat over a cream kurta, brown leather satchel, and archer’s bracer. Lima is 26, with warm brown skin, long dark braided hair, an ivory muslin sari with a deep red border, restrained gold jewellery, and an indigo curator’s sash when working.
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Full-body characters use the same proportions, three-quarter side-view orientation, soft outline treatment, warm key light from camera left, transparent final background, and foot anchor at the bottom centre. Portraits preserve facial identity and clothing.
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## Environment progression
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Afternoon begins with warm river light. Act II moves through golden dusk and blue garden shadow. Act III uses indigo moonlight, warm lantern pools, reflected river light, and restrained celebratory particles.
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## Exclusions
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No pixel art, anime conventions, photorealistic likenesses, celebrity resemblance, clip art, primitive placeholder geometry, generated words, watermarks, modern objects, sexualized anatomy, nudity, or characters who appear under 25.
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## Quality gate
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Reject assets with inconsistent faces, extra or malformed fingers, broken jewellery, unreadable silhouette, incorrect clothing construction, mixed cultural references without purpose, muddy alpha edges, chroma spill, watermarks, or embedded text.
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