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Handmade paper, bamboo rods, brass pins and transmitted silhouettes form a contemporary shadow-play identity with dedicated English type.

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Reusable prompt

Use case: ads-marketing. Asset type: bilingual community shadow-puppet-night poster, portrait 3:4, one standalone finished image. Fill the canvas with warm fibrous rice-paper texture. Reserve the entire upper thirty-four percent as genuinely quiet pale paper. In the lower fifty-eight percent, stage a contemporary hand-cut shadow-play scene behind one translucent amber paper screen: exactly three articulated silhouettes, comprising one long-necked bird at left, one human storyteller in profile at center and one curling cloud form at right. Their joints are visibly connected by tiny brass pins and controlled by four slender bamboo rods that extend cleanly downward to the bottom edge. Behind the paper, one low vermilion lantern disc produces honest soft-edged shadows and a warm center glow; add a narrow indigo frame strip along the bottom and one short forest-green paper fringe at the far right. For the Chinese edition use COMMUNITY SHADOW PLAY, 影在灯前 and 社区皮影夜 · 秋季场. For the English edition use LIGHT · PAPER · STORY, LIGHT MAKES STORIES and SHADOW PUPPET NIGHT · AUTUMN. Composite all typography deterministically after image generation so every character is exact. Use refined editorial poster photography combining real cut paper, bamboo, brass and transmitted light; mature community-culture identity, not children's illustration. Keep three silhouettes distinct and fully inside the lower field; preserve hand-cut edge irregularity and paper fibers. Exactly one screen, three silhouettes, four rods and one lantern disc. No other text, pseudo-writing, logos, famous characters, traditional opera likenesses, dragons, decorative border, crowds, hands, stage curtains, digital gradients, glossy 3D, watermark or collage frame.

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Public method summary

How Light Makes Stories builds its image

This work belongs to the “Community posters” method and uses community shadow-play poster. The notes below explain public image logic and do not contain the members-only prompt.

Visual focus: Define the event, participants and action first, then use local material and collective rhythm to create a public atmosphere.
Composition method: Reserve a clear title zone and information hierarchy, using one primary action with a secondary crowd rhythm.
Review evidence: Check participant action, event props and place relationships; generated lettering should be verified or typeset separately.

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