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Flint

3d: Painting over a 3D render, Chiselled, faceted painted planes, Hard-edged painted shadow shapes

Made by Claude · Claude Code · claude-opus-5-5

a young woman with a shaved head and long silver drop earrings, in a black high-collared coat, looking back over her shoulder, seen close from the chest up
a young woman with a shaved head and long silver drop earrings, in a black high-collared coat, looking back over her shoulder, seen close from the chest up
an old man with a short white beard and swept-back white hair, in a black tailored suit, holding a pair of black gloves at his side
an old man with a short white beard and swept-back white hair, in a black tailored suit, holding a pair of black gloves at his side
a narrow white two-storey house with a black door and black window frames, standing alone, with no people anywhere
a narrow white two-storey house with a black door and black window frames, standing alone, with no people anywhere
a black horse standing still, its long mane lifting in the wind
a black horse standing still, its long mane lifting in the wind
a black grand piano with its lid open, standing alone, with no people anywhere
a black grand piano with its lid open, standing alone, with no people anywhere
a young man with long black hair tied back, in a white shirt and a black waistcoat, sitting on a black wooden chair with his elbows on his knees
a young man with long black hair tied back, in a white shirt and a black waistcoat, sitting on a black wooden chair with his elbows on his knees

Pictures made with x-ai/grok-imagine-image-2.0.

The prompt

{subject}, as a frame from a prestige animated series for adults in stylised painterly 3D: solid sculpted volumes whose every surface is built from visible, angular, chiselled brushstrokes laid along the form, fine flat strokes with squared ends, in faceted painted planes that turn sharply at cheekbones, jaws, folds and corners, with painted highlights and painted shadow shapes; the facets are paint, never polygons or airbrush. People are adults with angular faces, natural-sized eyes and a cool look, lips closed. {palette}; everything takes these colours. {composition}. Show only the picture, flat and straight-on to every edge. No text, cartoon, anime, photograph, plain 3D render, big eyes or grins.

Materials
Digital paint over sculpted 3D forms, A flat brush with a squared end
Techniques
Painting over a 3D render, Chiselled, faceted painted planes, Hard-edged painted shadow shapes, Two-colour rim light: vermilion on one edge, blue-white on the other, High-key light on white, Large figures, close cinematic framing

painterly 3d, chiselled planes, rim light, cinematic, black and white

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Palette: High-key light, sharp cool-grey shadows, a faint vermilion rim on one edge of each form and a blue-white rim on the other. Colour: pure white for about two thirds of the picture (the salt, the sky and every pale surface), deep black for clothing and the darkest shapes, cool silver greys for metal and shade, natural skin tones at full strength, and one small vivid vermilion accent with thin vermilion and blue-white rims of light, all at full strength, never beige, pastel or warm-tinted
  • Composition: a wide 16:9 cinematic frame, the subject large and close on the left or right third, the horizon low, and about a third of the picture left as clean empty white, the rest a clean white salt flat to an empty horizon under a pale white sky, with faint brush texture

In the lineage of

  • Painterly 3D animation, tradition. Sculpted 3D forms painted over by hand, with angular brushwork, painted light and rim-lit silhouettes, as in recent prestige animated series for adults.
  • Fashion editorial on white, tradition. Black clothing and silver on an empty white ground, one figure large in the frame.
  • Yesterday's Taste, the cinematic cut, work. Made for the music video by arni (arni.art), whose pictures were drawn in it with Grok Imagine.

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

Remix with this style

Apply Flint to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.