SL-95 / Graphic Layer

The Doodle Contract

One pen, one physics, obeyed for the entire piece. Mixed styles are template soup.

The brief

Hand-drawn elements — arrows, underlines, scribbles — that obey one consistent style and one set of physical rules from beginning to end.

Why it's hard

The model varies the pen from mark to mark — one chalky, one neon, one glowing — and lets the marks float on a fixed screen plane instead of sticking to the world.

The craft key

Design five rules before the first mark, then obey them to the frame. Anchor every mark to a real edge.

Skill Tests

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Animal anatomy Human anatomy Biomechanics Physics & mass Water simulation Crowd dynamics Multi-shot continuity Face consistency Camera movement Unbroken take Motivated lighting Cutting rhythm Hands & fingers Hair & fabric Reflection & refraction Scale & depth Impossible geometry Period accuracy Music sync Aging & time Natural asynchrony Eye-lines & gaze Particle behaviour Motivated light source Consequence & persistence Time manipulation Graphic-layer discipline Colour as storytelling

Every challenge is scored against the same vocabulary, so you can compare them. Lit cells are what this one tests.

Starter prompt

Built with the CEMI MediaMax system for Google Veo 3.1. Prompts stay in English — that is the language these models take instructions in. Treat it as a starting point and start varying it.

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A bicycle mechanic trues a wheel on a stand in a narrow repair shop, shot in the style of Michel Gondry with Ellen Kuras's 16mm handheld texture: the operator kneels, breathes, drifts a half-inch left and corrects. Dirty foreground: an oil-blackened chain hangs on a nail across the lower left, thrown soft by a 35mm at f/2 with visible focus breathing and warm edge softness. GRAPHIC CONTRACT, no exceptions: one white chalk-line pen, 3-frame draw-on, 4-frame fade, every mark anchored to a real edge (spoke, rim, wrench jaw), every mark obeying gravity, every mark wiped by the object that moves through it. Exactly three marks appear: a tension arrow along one spoke, an underline under the true section of rim, a wobble squiggle at the buckle. Same weight, same speed, same physics. Anodised alloy rim with rock rash, chalk dust on scarred plywood.

Derived from the CEMI MediaMax production canon — cemi.media

Style reference: Michel Gondry, with Ellen Kuras's 16mm handheld cinematography

Why it's built this way

The lesson is not drawing, it is the contract: five rules written before the first mark and obeyed to the frame. Anchoring every mark to a real edge forces the overlay to inherit the shot's parallax and camera drift, which is what makes it read as designed rather than pasted. Three marks with identical draw-on timing beat fifteen marks in five styles.

Watch for

The model will vary the pen — one mark chalky, one neon, one glowing — and let the marks float on a fixed screen plane instead of sticking to the spinning rim.

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