Last door not installed Monday, because half the crew was still recovering from Thanksgiving. That’s my conclusion, anyway, based on the fact that only one of the three-man team was available, and there was no way he was going to move a pre-assembled sliding door to the back of my house and hold it in place.

Now there’s snow on the ground and a cold front moving in, so by the time they show up on Friday, it will be about 15°F, and the only thing that’s going to get rid of that snow is, sadly, me.

swarmctl

I’ve sandblasted the rough edges off of my Python script for driving SwarmUI via its REST API. It’s now up on Github in my catchall repo as sui.py (name shortened because I got tired of typing it). I used it to generate 5,000 vertical 1080p sfnal pinups with the new Z Image Turbo model, as well as upscale some of the better ones. It also slices, dices, and makes julienne fries, or it will when I’ve worked through the TODO list.

(without a style LoRA, these don’t necessarily hit the “40s retro-sf” look, but Z is really good at detailed backgrounds and pulling things out of complicated prompts; this set averaged 195 words/prompt)

Dear Amazon,

According to you, the things I wanted the most in Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on were coffee grinders (26, with prices ranging from “burger and fries” to “car payment”) and phone/watch/earphone multi-chargers (49, ranging from “small delivery pizza” to “dinner date at nice restaurant”). Also about half a dozen fermenting jugs in different sizes, and four replacement USB boards for repairing Android devices I’ve never owned.

Dear Amazon Marketing Droid Soon To Be Replaced By Generic GenAI,

Cyber Monday is perhaps not the best day to sign someone up for marketing text messages without their permission, requiring them to opt-out. Please take the person responsible for this decision out behind the barn, insert an electric cattle prod to its full wide-base-to-prevent-loss depth, and set the power to full.

I mean, come on:

2025/12/1 18:40 EST:
Amazon: Starting today, you’ll now get exclusive Amazon offers from 48092, just in time for Cyber Monday deals. Reply STOP to 48092 to opt out.

(yeah, send out that “Cyber Monday special” when there are only five hours left in the day…)

Dear Apple,

Fuck your “News” feed. I use the Stocks widget to track stocks, not headlines from Mashable (whatever that is), that open in your subscription “News” app. Guess that’s one more piece of functionality you’ve buggered up completely on the Mac in your quest to monetize every pixel.

Dear Japan,

Never change. This time I mean it.

That feeling when…

…you realize that phone is older than her mom.

🎶 Thunder and lightning… 🎶

You won’t live through the first date, but it will be worth it.

(so, how has your X “for you” feed been today…)

Reasons Z-Image Turbo is better than Qwen Image

1. speed; like, by a lot
2. thumbs and big toes reliably on correct side
3. wider variety of faces and body types
4. extra, missing, and melty limbs quite rare
5. fewer EXTREME facial expressions
6. less weird shit in general
7. less censored (better than Barbie but not specifically trained on genitals)
8. apparently quite easy to make LoRAs for
9. lean, running on older hardware with less VRAM
10. Even Better Models On The Way

To clarify that last one, “turbo” models are generally very fast but less capable, converging in a small number of steps but lacking the detail and breadth of the corresponding full model. ZI’s turbo model is better than most full models, so if the relationship holds true, ZI-full should be unbelievably awesome.

So far, the only negative I’ve run into is that if you don’t specify the image style clearly, it will default to “photograph with terrible skin tones”. I actually get better “photographic” images by just asking for “illustration”, although that tag will also generate flat animation, 3D animation, anime, cartoons, and the occasional painting.

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Cleats don’t fail me now!

Went out to shovel 4 inches of snow off the driveway. Made it halfway down the hill before realizing my cleats had rusted out and snapped, and I had to walk carefully as I cleared a path with the Snowcaster and salted the ground behind me. I finished clearing the driveway after the new cleats arrived this morning, because they’ve moved the door work from Friday to Thursday.

Fortunately the sun and wind combined to mostly clear the rest of the driveway, so it went quick, but I had to at least clear off the pavers going around the house, so there’s no risk of ice ruining their day. (ICE won’t ruin their day because all the workers are Americans)

(Z don’t know grawlix, and didn’t use the emoji I included in the prompt, but it still managed to use relevant emoji)

(also, TIL grawlix is the word for pre-emoji cartoon swearing)

Catering to a certain audience

You know who you are:

I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!

AT&T knows their audience, too

Their fiber Internet service is now ready for installs, so they sent a pair of pretty girls around the neighborhood to make the offer. Unfortunately, I’d just finished clearing the snow and ice for tomorrow, so I had no energy for them, and was much more interested in a hot shower.

Which I’d have gotten arrested for inviting them to join. Maybe they were 18.

Dear Apple,

Take advantage of the departure of your “UI Design Chief” by releasing OS updates that revert Liquid Ass and Make Text Readable Again.

Spoiler alert

As expected, the “revised edition” of Freelancers of Neptune does not improve the story in any way. I’d much rather see Jacob Holo work on book 2, and the nicest thing I can say about this book is that he clearly didn’t spend much time on it, letting the co-author airdrop in her tab-a-into-slot-b erotica. I didn’t expect to finish it, and I did not, in fact, finish it.

Speaking of cheesy porn…

Does it count if you lose your virginity to an android? is next season’s lesbian-slave-waifu show. Sadly, the trailer shows that even women in their late twenties can freak out like a teenage anime boy when confronted with a nekkid chick in her bed. From the studio that brought us Yandere Dark Elf and Chuhai Lips, which is not the flex they might think it is.

Every dog eventually gets his Waymo

or vice-versa.

(although I’m reminded of the story about the Texas researcher who was testing how people responded to animals on the road, and when he put out a realistic snake, the first person to drive by was a state trooper who not only swerved to hit the snake, but backed up over it again, then got out of his car and drew his sidearm to put a bullet in it)

On Thursday, they finished the last door. On Friday, I wrote a check to pay off the doors. In the spring, I’ll have them come back and start on the windows. I’m very happy with the quality of work done by Wayne Overhead Doors, and the quality of the Provia doors.

Wild Last Boss: not bad so far

I figured the “reborn as my OP RPG character in the distant future of the game world” genre was played out, so I didn’t give this a chance. Fortunately someone recommended it recently, and as soon as Our Hero became Our Heroine, her voice won me over. While she’s quite versatile, for this role she’s using her Dog Days Princess Leon voice, which I’m quite fond of.

Her expository sidekick is actually the first named role for that actress.

Catgirl Output

In Z Image Turbo, short prompts tend to produce very similar images, to the point that something like “pretty young woman with slender figure” will produce 100 images of basically the same 19-year-old Chinese fashion model with obvious plastic surgery on her face.

At the same time, long detailed physical descriptions may produce too much diversity, to the point where a request for young, healthy, attractive women will occasionally produce fat ugly broads in their fifties. The elaborate dynamicprompts set that I built to shove Qwen Image out of its comfort zone is too strong for ZIT; in my batch of 5,000 SFnal cheesecakes, nearly 3% were unflatteringly heavyset. Another 3% were thicc and tasty, so it wasn’t all bad.

When I was illustrating the previous post, though, I started with “highly-detailed cartoon. six sexy half-naked catgirls on the bridge of a starship” and they came out completely nude with Barbie-doll genitals and breasts tipped with pink hearts. Adding “they are wearing cyberpunk outfits” shifted to a 3D-rendered realistic style and replaced real cat-ears with cat-ear headphones.

I went back to the original prompt and tried to dress them a little, adding “They are wearing lace bras, lace-topped stockings, lace panties, and long lace gloves”; this kept the real ears, but switched to photographic style. So I changed it to “They are wearing sexy lingerie” and it not only shifted back to 2D, it went with flat-shaded anime style.

I expect better style consistency when they release the full Z Image base model; Turbo is ridiculously fast, but there’s a clear tradeoff. In the meantime, I’ve converted the data from this repo to YAML so I can use its lengthy descriptions of many artist styles:

(echo "styles:";\
    sed -e '1 s/^.*=//' artist_prompts.js | jq -r '.[]|.[]'  |
    sed -e 's/^/    - /' ) > artist-styles.yaml

sed -e '1 s/^.*=//' artist_prompts.js |
    jq -r '. | to_entries[] | "\(.key): \(.value)"' | sed -e \
        's/^/\n/' -e 's/: /:\n    - /' -e 's/["//' -e 's/"]//' \
        -e 's/","/\n    - /g'  | sed -e '/:/s/ /_/g' > artists.yaml

NSFW

Doordash knows

I was quite sick on Friday, so I didn’t have any energy to cook on Saturday, and ordered dinner via Doordash. The “top dasher” had a clearly female name, but the driver who showed up at my door was a man in his mid-thirties who spoke about ten words of broken English.

Checking the site, “she” has over 13,000 successful deliveries. You can’t convince me that the company doesn’t know how many illegals are sharing accounts.

Literally, in a “let’s not ask genai to illustrate that” way. Feeling much better now, but I lost nine pounds in a day and a half, and I would not recommend this weight-loss plan.

Streams: Crossed

The Kpocalypse Kometh!

KPop Demon Hunters to Ring in Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve

No, I will not be watching. Not because I bounced hard on the obnoxious trailer for KDH, which I did, but because I’d rather scrub the toilets than “ring in the new year” with a live TV broadcast. My traditional New Years festivities include ordering delivery pizza, tipping heavily, and avoiding all human contact. Admittedly, it’s the same as my plan for most holidays.

(no kpop artists or undead pop-culture icons were harmed in the faprication of this genai image)

Dear Amazon,

What’s the customer-support code for “driver too lazy or stupid to walk 20 feet to the front porch”? Trick question, I know, because there’s no button for reporting on the quality of a delivery. If I navigate through “customer support” I eventually get redirected to a 20-minute-wait “chat” screen, but the odds that an English-speaking human being will respond are… “less than promising”.

Thesis

“90% of improved coffee-making technology is just baristas pretending they’re Tom Cruise in the movie Cocktail”

How to reduce memory use in Discord

I never knew that Discord was such a memory hog, to the point that it now auto-restarts when it gets above 4GB. I just got in the habit of exiting it after every session because writing a desktop application in Javascript produces a terrible user experience and is guaranteed to come with giant gaping security holes.

And you don’t want giant gaping holes exposed on the Internet.

Related,

Z-Image Turbo is so popular that even the amputee fetishists are rushing to make LoRAs catering to their specific sub-kinks. Kinda wish they weren’t, actually.

(people are raving about how easy it is to make LoRAs for ZIT, but most of the SFW styles seem to just be adding keywords to styles the model can already produce. I didn’t use any LoRAs for the above images, just long style descriptions followed by relatively short prompts (see mouseover comments))

• Frieren 2: Yes.

(anything else, I’d first have to watch a previous season that I skipped, and I don’t know if the hot adorableness of Torture Tortura is enough to compensate for Shouty Princess Shouting)

Dear PILs,

Whoever thought it was a good idea for Pillow to silently strip metadata should be pixelated with extreme prejudice.

Also, could ya maybe flesh out the documentation a bit? I would not know that you could add exif=somedict or pnginfo=somedict arguments to Image.save() if I hadn’t googled examples. Just knowing about the existence of those arguments would have helped explain why one of the two save paths I was using was metadata-free.

“I don’t see you in our system…”

Called the home-security company to have them come out and install new sensors on the replacement doors. After suffering through a really annoying hold system, the woman who answered had no record of my account. Until I mentioned the name of the company, at which point it turned out they’d been acquired, and their phone number was transferred over to a new central dispatch system on Friday. After she logged into the correct system, she… copied down all my information by hand, because that didn’t work either. I’m supposed to get a callback, eventually.

Really doesn’t make me optimistic about their responsiveness to alarm calls.

“I don’t see you in our system…” 2

Due to a recent acquisition that should be all over the news for the business we’re in, my team is being added to their legacy IT systems; email, VPN, Jira/Confluence, etc. The Belfast team got all their invites Monday, but I got nothing. I figured they were going by region, and I pretty much am my region, so I didn’t worry about it.

The good news is that I finally got my first notification about access.

The bad news is that it was for Teams.

“so much glitter”

(classical reference)

My Mac suddenly decided that I couldn’t open certain images and PDF files, claiming a permission problem. The well-written error message even told me how to fix it, which of course didn’t work, because it had misdiagnosed the problem. I could open the files, just not with Preview.app.

It would open 90+% of files just fine, but consistently fail on others. TL/DR: Preview.app leaks resources over time, and I’d been keeping it open because otherwise it loses my place in the PDF file I’ve been reading.

It’s not supposed to do that, either.

(in fairness, I’ve opened and closed thousands of images over the past week, often a few hundred at a time; why they wrote Preview to open all of them simultaneously, I can’t imagine, but they did. This is one of the reasons I “vibe coded” deathmatch)

Unrelated,

I am convinced that every air-fryer manufacturer staffs their cooking-guide team with people who have never seen a pizza roll. One of my Black Cyber Fortnight purchases was a Ninja Crispi Pro, and the recommended time and temperature for a bag of pizza rolls is 10-15 minutes at 450°F.

I have never seen a pizza roll survive more than 8 minutes at 375°F without bursting open and spilling out its precious lava. 10-15 at 450 is crispy-critter territory.

(okay, this was not the direction I expected Z to go with this, but I find myself unable to complain)

(discussing the previous pic on the Discord eventually led to a non-serious idea about an in-person gathering to make late-night drunk snacks)

Finally!

The key to unlocking proper pizza rolls in Z was to avoid any word that could be mistaken for Asian cuisine. “roll” means egg roll, “dumpling” means gyoza or shumai, etc; “deep-fried pillow-shaped miniature pastry” dodged the over-training bullet.

(yes, “chicken and dumpling soup” produces a thin broth with gyoza and sliced chicken floating in it; harrumph)

Feel the Uravity

(not only does she defy gravity, but also Internet Wisdom about the plausibility of the boobs-and-butt pose)

The weekly theme on the SwarmUI Discord is “romantic dates”, and it quickly went off the rails with someone posting a Trump/Putin dinner with a “nuclear apocalypse, Y/N?” display in the background. I responded with Trump and Musk eating pizza rolls at the Statue Of Liberty, and then changed the subject with this:

Nobody recognized them.

At all.

(Z Image Turbo had a vague idea of the look, but was not bulk-tagged with anime the way models like Illustrious and Pony are; I had to do most of the work with a detailed prompt)

Bumpkin 2 coming in 2026

Just not January. Pity.

We were promised hours of snowfall starting at 1PM, so I made an early-morning run down to Jungle Jim’s for some holiday food shopping. I got out of there around 10:45AM, at which point it was just starting to sleet.

Getting home took twice as long as the trip out, because there were already several accidents on the highway, despite the fact that the roads were still clear and there was no ice.

I made it home as it started to snow just enough to require my windshield wipers, and soon after I got the car unloaded, the sky unloaded.

Boy, bet those Amazon drivers wish they’d delivered my packages yesterday as promised, rather than leaving them on the truck and taking them back to the depot for the night…

Peternal

EXIF is such a mess of a standard that the best way to work with it in Python is a thin wrapper around the exiftool command.

Which is a Perl script.

Coffee Dump

James Hoffmann explores the depths.

This week’s SwarmUI Discord theme is food. Z Image Turbo nailed the concept on the first try, but I made a few more until I had one where she was carrying the pepperoni in both hands.

(the first time I tried to upscale this, I got a bunch of extra extra-tiny people scattered around the image. Turned out that the “refiner do tiling” option was on (legacy of a more memory-intensive model), and it was generating additional people on each tile, at the appropriate scale; first time I’ve seen it do something like that)

Captions, on the other hand…

The “New Yorker” look was easy, given the artist name and a style description, but getting every word right remains a challenge for diffusion models, even when you avoid rare words. Part of the problem is that for all its virtues, the turbo part of Z Image Turbo means that it does 90% of the work in the first pass, which doesn’t leave as much room for variation and refinement. It took 10 tries to get 2 correct captions, one of which was rendered even smaller than this one.

The WWWA Central Computer says “get off my lawn!”

Dirty Pair 40th anniversary merchandise.

…although with Amazon having forgotten most of what they ever knew about logistics, Shipmas is a bit like Schrödinger’s Cat Box, with things never showing up as trackable until two days after they were promised for delivery, which is always fun to explain to kids.

Fun(?) with Liquid Ass

iOS 26.2 is out, so one could hope that other customers have done the basic release QA for Apple by now. I wanted to see what the legibility looks like, to see if it’s safe to upgrade my mom’s phone yet. So I installed it on my old California phone, which doesn’t tie into any online services (do not upgrade a device that uses iClown until you’re ready to upgrade everything; they test cross-version compatibility even less).

TL/DR, no, doesn’t look like they’ve finished tuning the UI to restore readability. It’s better than the initial “release” (beta), but still not good for anyone with less-perfect vision than an Apple design team.

Synology pivots to “AI”

Their latest device is BeeDrive, an “AI-powered Portable SSD”. Not to be confused with their BeeStation “private cloud”, which is not to be confused with their NAS products. As far as I can tell, none of the Bee-thingies has any data protection, although the Station offers a free trial of “storing bits of your private cloud in their public cloud”.

TL/DR, both product lines appear to be external drives that come with backup software, which is a pretty crowded market. On the plus side, they didn’t roll their own, and licensed Acronis True Image (“formerly Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office”, signaling that they’ve (partially) recovered from their childish phase of labeling everything “cyber”).

On the minus side, they’re bundling an offline LLM to do text-scanning, image-scanning, and inference on everything you store, for Deep Search(TM). So when the local authorities decide they don’t like your memes, they can sieze your backup drive and quickly find additional double-plus-ungood thoughts to charge you with.

I mention this for the benefit of those living in Australia, the UK, Canada, the EU, and other regimes hostile to free expression of disapproved thoughts.

I also suspect their LLM is going to produce hilarious results when fed a typical Internet user’s hard drive. Most common search result:

(primary difficulty on this one: getting separate speech bubbles with one of them coming from the computer; maybe six tries total)

Definitely not a “1-minute walk”…

A Kyoto “tourism site” describes access to the Sannenzaka shopping district with the words “A 1-minute walk from Keihan Railway’s Gion-Shijo Station”.

Google’s walking instructions suggest they left off the first digit, and it’s not a “1”…

Given how sparse, generic, and monolingual the content of the site is, I suspect it’s AI slop. Which is why I’m not linking to “kyoto-to-do dot com”.

Speaking of slop…

My phone is now getting computer-filtered 50% Medicare/Medicaid fraud and 50% home-improvement fraud. I need to answer the phone for unknown numbers while I’m expecting service providers to show up, so I can’t just let them go to voicemail (and even legit numbers often don’t leave messages any more).

I say “yes” to get to whatever operations center in India is taking the calls today, and then ask them a simple question: “what’s my name?”. If they have even the cheapest possible call list, then they have some name associated with my phone number.

But none of them can answer, and they stop talking immediately and hang up.

Fallout Season 2, episode 1

“Let’s set up an entire season of convoluted plotting all at once!”

IMHO, Walton Goggins is the only thing holding this together, and spacing it out so you have to watch one episode per week like our primitive ancestors did does not enhance the experience. I’d prefer to just rip off the bandaid and get it over with, but that won’t be possible until February.

Maybe I’ll watch the rest then.

(I did not use the word “alien” to describe the creature, because that word is strongly associated with a very specific overused image of a pop-culture alien, just like asking for “alien symbols” gets you an Alienware logo; creature, monster, pretty much any other word is a better choice with most models)

(also, this is probably the best-looking pistol I’ve gotten out of ZIT, and it’s even in a decent “holstered” position)

LUT-shaming

Random image is random; I’m experimenting with adding a LUT post-processing pass to my SwarmUI CLI, to fix Z Image Turbo’s slightly flat colors. The output looks fine on its own, but when I mixed some of its cheesecake into the wallpaper rotation, you could really see the difference.

If anything, the pics from Qwen Image were too saturated, but for some of them that was part of the “vintage airbrush pinup” look I was going for with them. My first pass at cleaning up the ZITs was doing a basic auto-level-ish command with ImageMagick:

magick $file -contrast-stretch 0.15x0.05% new/$file

Worked great, but it would be nice to have it run server-side, before JPG compression, and the recommended method is to apply a LUT. There’s a whole suite of post-processing tools available as a SwarmUI extension, and plenty of free LUTs online (1, 2, 3, etc). You can also copy .cube files from any professional imaging software you happen to have a license to, such as Photoshop, where they’re usually named by the film/camera look they apply.

Raw from ZIT:

I think the Fuji Sensia LUT pops the colors a bit without going overboard:

(best part: applying a LUT adds basically nothing to rendering time, and generating a comparison grid of every installed LUT at different strengths takes seconds, since the server can reuse the rendered image and just apply each transform in turn)

Another pair of cats dancing…

Okay, they were both pretty cool cats, but not quite what I had in mind.

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A Wild Last Boss Returns!

Season 2 announced. Clicking on the video initially used the English dub, and it’s so bad that I not only couldn’t tell what character it was supposed to be, but couldn’t even be sure it was someone speaking in character.

Kaiju No. 8, too

“conclusion arc” and side story.

And Magical Working Girls makes three

Season 2 in July.

(wrong magical girls, but these have a lot more fan-art)

Same vibe

The M in M1911 is for…

Last Christmas

Peak Japan

Related,

Modern dating

Life goals

Life lessons

Amazon Interstellar

New Stargate series greenlit.

Childhood’s End

No, not that one. This one. Of the many pop-culture references from the Seventies that have been converted to LoRAs, this is not one I intend to pursue.

Blackout

My patience is rewarded, as the 15-year-old overpriced Connie Willis novel finally drops below $10 on Kindle.

Merry Christmas from The Cheesecake Faptory

Tear off the wrapping paper and enjoy!

[Update: just realized I made the "-small" versions full-4K as well, which was silly. Page should load a lot faster now...]

Note that my new workflow is built around my SwarmUI CLI, which now correctly preserves metadata even when generating to JPG, so the large images have the full parameters embedded in the EXIF User Comment field, making it possible to drag them back into SwarmUI or just view the prompt and other settings with exiftool:

exiftool -b -usercomment cheesecake.jpg | jq .

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Everything must go!

Glass Bottom Boat

She has my sword…

GenAI Gals after the jump

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So, AI is consuming all memory production in the world while simultaneously being unable to remember which commands destroy data. I’m sure it’ll all work out fine.

“Alexa, exit Alexa+”

How much do we want AI everywhere? Instead of the original plan to make it an add-on paid service, Amazon is rolling out the new “AI” “enhanced” Echo “experience” to Prime customers by default. To opt out and restore the old dumb “by the way, did you know that I’ll keep talking until you swear at me to shut up?” behavior, use the above command. Which will probably work as reliably as switching away from the “for you” feed on X…

(took about 20 tries to get the speech bubble to come from the drone, sigh; fortunately it only took 4 seconds per try)

“Package delayed in transit”

Oh, Amazon, you and your bullshit.

1. Dec 10: marketplace order placed, “may arrive after Christmas”.
2. Dec 11: “Package left the shipper facility”
3. …
4. Dec 26: “Package delayed in transit”
5. Actual USPS site, Dec 11-27: “Shipping label created, USPS awaiting item”
6. Amazon status: “Estimated to arrive by January 1”

The best part is how Amazon now adds text insisting that the information on the order status page is the same as what’s available to their customer service agents, (implied) “so don’t bother contacting them”.

(fortunately it was just a present for myself…)

Skeleton Knight 2 announced in January

No, not announced for January, just that there will be an announcement for the second season in January.

(I’ve already used almost all of the decent non-porn fan-art from the first season…)

Santa’s School For Naughty Girls

Just helping them get their start…

(ZIT’s having some scaling issues today; must have had too much ice cream and pudding for Christmas (classical reference))

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First it rained heavily yesterday, then the temperature dropped 30°F last night, and then I looked out the front door this morning to find that high winds (40+ MPH) had blown my empty trash bins sixty feet down the street, and had also filled my yard with a mix of trash and recyclables from neighboring houses.

As I went out for what I thought would be a quick pickup, snow started blowing around. I got the bins back up to the house, but had to retreat and gear up before finishing the cleanup, because my fingers were starting to hurt from the bitter icy wind.

So, yeah, staying in for the rest of the day.

(style courtesy of one of the few useful ZIT LoRA, Cute Future, which really shifts the mood of my holiday cheesecake)

Teh Anime Warz

Lots of back and forth on the xitter in the never-ending battle between “people who like Japanese pop culture” and “people who insist on ‘fixing’ it in translation”. My take:

Localizers believe that they’re better writers in English than the original authors are in Japanese. If this were true, they wouldn’t be working as localizers.

Random study-buddy

(I’m really liking this particular cartoon style; it reliably comes out strong and consistent and cute; style section of prompt is “Drawing in the style of Jon Burgerman, chaotic compositions of cartoon characters, free-form doodling with bold, looping linework, flat graphic lighting, a vibrant, candy-colored palette, playful and energetic atmosphere.”)