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README.md

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-# roto
+# arthur
 
-Video → **take file** builder for the Animator Pro rotoscope/puppet pipeline
+An animation suite for turning live-action video into work that reads as
-described in `docs/design.md`.
+hand-authored — flat shapes, a tiny palette, hard edges, motion carried by
+silhouette, in the idiom of *Another World*.
 
-This is the analysis and tuning half. It stabilises a face out of a clip, reduces
+It stabilises a face out of a clip, reduces the lip contour to a handful of
-the lip contour to a handful of vertices, selects sparse keys on motion extremes,
+vertices, derives teeth from image content, lets you decide which frames need
-and previews the result as flat indexed fills — so the *look and timing* can be
+their own hand-drawn head, and renders the result as flat indexed fills at
-judged in seconds rather than through a minutes-long Animator Pro render. It
+320×200 with no antialiasing.
-emits a `.take` file; nothing here touches Animator Pro.
 
-All policy lives here. The take arrives at the renderer with its keys already
+The constraint is deliberate. 320×200 and an indexed palette are inherited from
-chosen.
+Animator Pro, where this started, but they are why the output looks right —
+modern conveniences belong in the workflow, not the output. See
+[docs/design.md](docs/design.md).
 
 ## Run
 
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 # open http://127.0.0.1:8777
 ```
 
+Static files and ES modules — no build step, no dependencies beyond MediaPipe's
+wasm, which is fetched from a CDN on first use.
+
 **Synthetic take** needs no video and exercises everything below detection.
 
 For real footage: