Dusk gouache

How to use it

Carry most of the clip as full-frame painted dusk landscapes that follow the story, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the most personal line.

Where the speaker sits

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Full scene: the scene fills the frame. Stock speaker from Pexels.

Palette

THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

VISUAL STYLE: Dusk gouache
Slice style ref: sref-AKVVXW
Gouache storybook landscape at dusk. Palette: dusk blue #5D7193, haze #9AA6B9, rim orange #E8875A, pale grass #D9C9A4, deep shadow #2F3B4A. No outlines anywhere: shapes are flat matte gouache built from short dry-brush dabs in two close tones, with dry, broken edges where the brush ran out. Texture: paper grain shows through the paint, soft bleed at edges. Light: low warm rim light only on ridges and top edges; everything else stays cool. Camera: slow parallax drift through three or four layered planes and a slow push-in. Motion: slow and smooth, easing in and out; clouds drift, grass sways, small figures move very little. Type: handwritten capitals in pale cream floating in open sky. The one rule: a cool painted world, warm light only on the edges. DON'T: hard vector edges, bright saturated colour, fast cuts, black lines.
Accent: as in the palette.
Frame shape: ask me before you start (9:16 vertical, 4:5 portrait, 1:1 square or 16:9 wide).
Energy: normal.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

Look rules

• Gouache storybook landscape at dusk.
• Palette: dusk blue #5D7193, haze #9AA6B9, rim orange #E8875A, pale grass #D9C9A4, deep shadow #2F3B4A.
• No outlines anywhere: shapes are flat matte gouache built from short dry-brush dabs in two close tones, with dry, broken edges where the brush ran out.
• Texture: paper grain shows through the paint, soft bleed at edges.
• Light: low warm rim light only on ridges and top edges; everything else stays cool.
• Camera: slow parallax drift through three or four layered planes and a slow push-in.
• Motion: slow and smooth, easing in and out; clouds drift, grass sways, small figures move very little.
• Type: handwritten capitals in pale cream floating in open sky.
• The one rule: a cool painted world, warm light only on the edges.
• DON'T: hard vector edges, bright saturated colour, fast cuts, black lines.

What it suits

Best for

Encouragement, hope and reflective faith moments with a painted, golden-hour mood.

Avoid for

Comedy, tech explainers or fast hype.

Content

Faith, Something emotional, Wellbeing, Motivation

Tone

Dreamy, Tender, Warm

Pace

Slow

Topics

hope, faith, encouragement, reflection, evening, peace, grace, healing, prayer, comfort

Colours

#5D7193 #9AA6B9 #E8875A #D9C9A4 #2F3B4A

For AIs: this style as plain text.