noir-style

$npx mdskill add arjun988/blender-skills/noir-style

Creates noir-style Blender scenes with high-contrast lighting and monochrome grading.

  • Achieves film noir look with hard keys, silhouettes, and wet surfaces.
  • Depends on Blender lighting, compositing, and material nodes.
  • Selects lighting and grading based on noir tenets like motivated keys and negative fill.
  • Delivers a Blender scene file with lighting, materials, and compositing setup.

SKILL.md

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---
name: noir-style
description: Noir art direction for Blender with high-contrast lighting, wet streets, silhouettes, and monochrome or limited-color grading.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: https://github.com/arjun988
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: blender
  role: specialist
  triggers: noir, neo-noir, hardboiled, detective noir, high contrast black and white
  related-skills: camera-cinematography, lighting, compositing, materials, lookdev
---

# Noir Style

Shadows as design. Silhouettes. Wet ground mirrors. Limited color or mono.

## Tenets
1. Motivated hard keys / blinds / neon slash
2. Negative fill
3. Smoke/fog shafts
4. Costume readable in silhouette
5. Grade crushed but detailed shadows

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