Animation that looks printed frame by frame on a stencil duplicator: two or three translucent spot inks (blue, yellow and fluorescent pink by default) overprinted on warm off-white paper, a third colour wherever two inks meet, stepped halftone skies, ink grain, pinholes and plates a few pixels out of register. Flat shapes with no outlines, a small figure in a wide world, and a new ink rolling on at each turn of the story. Drawn entirely in code, in English or Chinese, landscape or portrait.
Use this styleDescribe the place or story (a place, a journey, a few turns of an event) and the short titles, place names or labels that should appear on screen; it suits light, everyday, indie-brand and zine-like topics. You may pick 2-3 inks (such as teal + orange, or federal blue + red + sunflower) and a paper colour. Photos are printed as one-ink halftone and are optional.
A harbour at dawn printed in the blue plate only: sleeping rooftops, a lighthouse and someone walking along the quay; the yellow plate rolls on and lights the sky and sea; when the pink plate arrives the paper-white sun is printed pink, the title gets its off-register second hit, the gulls take off and the walker waves at a passing sailboat.
Risograph · 16:9 · 7.0s