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Ink-theater explainer animation method: concept-to-metaphor generator (action/object/mascot), archetypes, strict color grammar.

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# Ink Theater — hand-drawn "moving art" (creative skill)

> Style id: `ink-sketch` · Engine: `ink-theater/ink-theater.js` · Runtime: HyperFrames (atelier)
> Technique credit: inspired by Ian's `小黑/Xiaohei` MIT skill. Generic, English, motion-first.

**What it is:** a minimalist **black-ink-on-white** world where a deadpan mascot *physically performs* an abstract idea by operating an absurd **low-tech contraption**. Not a fixed catalog of scenes — a generic method + a parametric engine. Runs on the `animation` pipeline in atelier mode; it is NOT its own pipeline.

## The generic method (concept → moving scene)

The "unlock" from research + the Xiaohei composition rules is a 3-step metaphor generator — do this in the agent, not in code:

1. **Abstract concept → one physical ACTION** — stuck, leaking, compounding, sorting, fermenting, pushing, sinking, unraveling.
2. **System → one low-tech OBJECT** — press, funnel, well, jar, conveyor, ladder, bridge, cabinet, boulder, gate, scale.
3. **Mascot PERFORMS the action on the object** — it cranks / pushes / pumps / stamps / fishes-out. *If you can delete the mascot and the metaphor survives, it's decoration — redo it.*
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