Painting & line
Rubber-hose cartoon
1930s animation grammar: limbs with no joints, everything bouncing, drawn on inked cels over watercolour backdrops with the film grain left in.
What to look at
- 01Limbs that curve instead of bending
- 02Sepia-tinted limited palette
- 03Film grain and print wobble left visible
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.
1930s rubber-hose cartoon game character, boneless curving noodle limbs, pie-cut eyes and white gloves, bouncy exaggerated proportions, inked contour, aged film grain and sepia-tinted palette
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
1930s rubber-hose cartoon terrain, bouncy boneless curving shapes, inked contours, limited sepia-tinted palette, visible aged film grain and slight print misregistration, hand-painted watercolour backdrop texture
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 1930s rubber-hose cartoon backdrop: bouncy boneless curving shapes, inked contours, a limited sepia-tinted palette, hand-painted watercolour texture and visible aged film grain. 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
Cuphead · Bendy and the Ink Machine
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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