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Painting & line

Classic cel animation

A frame from a hand-drawn animated feature: inked characters in flat cel colour in front of a lush painted background. The figure is drawn to move; the world behind it is painted to be looked at.

Classic cel animation
Generated with GenioPlus. All 42 samples draw the same scene — only the style changes.

What to look at

  1. 01Tapered ink lines with flat cel colour
  2. 02One crisp shadow shape on the figure
  3. 03A lush painted backdrop behind the line work

Prompts

The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.

Character prompt

Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.

classic hand-drawn cel animation 2D game character, fluid confident ink lines with tapered weight, flat cel colour with one crisp shadow shape, appealing rounded animation-style construction, like a frame from an animated feature film

Tilemap prompt

Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.

classic animated-film background terrain: hand-painted gouache texture with soft brushwork, muted natural palette, gentle painted shading, no outlines on the ground, like hand-painted animation backgrounds, no noise

Background prompt

Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.

A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as a frame from a classic hand-drawn animated feature: characters in fluid tapered ink lines with flat cel colour and one crisp shadow shape, set against lush hand-painted gouache backgrounds with soft brushwork and atmospheric depth. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.

Games that made this look known

The Banner Saga · Dragon's Lair

Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.

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Classic cel animation — Game Art Style Prompt | GenioPlus