milim-editorial-thumbnail

name	milim-editorial-thumbnail
description	Create or refine calm, flat 16:9 Gaia Research editorial thumbnails featuring a tiny Milim within vast everyday slice-of-life scenes. Emphasizes dramatic scale (Milim 4-6% frame height), flexible positioning (left, center, right), expansive negative space (88-92%), varied emotions, and dynamic color palettes.

Milim Editorial Thumbnail

Create an authentic everyday slice-of-life editorial moment, not a product illustration, explainer, diagram, or hero scene.

Scale & Composition (Dramatic Scale & Negative Space)

• Scale Ratio: Milim MUST be very small (about 4–6% of total image height). Her tiny size creates a dramatic sense of scale against the surrounding world.
• World Ownership: The environment MUST occupy 88–92% of the frame, offering expansive, calm negative space.
• Flexible Positioning: Milim can be placed on the left, center, or right side depending on the focal point, framed by the surrounding atmosphere.

Guardrails

• Read ../marketing-tasks/MILIM.md before depicting Milim; it is the character authority. Keep her childlike (8-to-10-year-old chibi proportions), long-haired, unbound, and never give her twintails. Ensure she wears two yellow star hairpins in her bangs and her mascot outfit (black dragonoid hoodie, thigh-high socks with pink stripes, chunky sneakers).
• Use gpt-image-2 or gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2).
• Start every generation in assets/workbench/generated/. Keep approved source art there; promote a production derivative to assets/generated/ and public/assets/ after review.
• Use 16:9 landscape (1600×900 WebP) for blog cards and inline editorial images.
• Do not use trees, roots, branches, canopies, forests, or tree-derived imagery as the primary subject.
• Never add readable text, letters, numbers, labels, logos, watermarks, UI, code, dashboards, charts, graphs, diagrams, or report pages.

Varied Emotions & Expressions

Milim should express authentic, relatable everyday slice-of-life emotions:

• Cozy / Content: Sipping hot cocoa, wrapped in a blanket, or sitting on a warm window bench.
• Curious / Focused: Examining a small object, inspecting paper stars, or reading a tiny booklet.
• Joyful / Bubbly: Smiling broadly, laughing under a rain umbrella, or watching steam rise from a fresh bakery tray.
• Sleepy / Relaxed: Rested against a bench, watching rain on a transit window, or listening to music.

Everyday Slice-of-Life Settings & Palettes

Vary the setting and color palette across every post. Do not default to the same night/starry scene:

• Vast Morning Bakery Conservatory: High sunlit glass arches, floating flour dust, towering bread racks, warm golden amber and cream palette.
• Rainy Bus Stop & Umbrella: Rain-streaked glass, reflections on wet pavement, cozy teal and indigo palette with bright yellow umbrella.
• Sunlit Greenhouse Plant Bench: Terracotta pots, green glass, morning mist, warm sage green and sunlit cream palette.
• Cozy Vinyl Record & Book Nook: Towering shelves of colorful paper sleeves, warm lamp light, wooden floor, warm brown and pastel lavender palette.
• Night Market Tea & Stationery Stall: Paper lanterns, awnings, steam, rich indigo and amber palette.
• Harbor Dock & Morning Sea: Portholes, wooden piers, calm water, crisp morning sky and seafoam blue palette.

Prompt Skeleton

Use case: illustration-story.
Asset type: 16:9 Gaia Research blog thumbnail.
Primary request: [Vast everyday slice-of-life setting with huge architecture/environment]. A microscopic, tiny 8-year-old chibi girl (Milim Nova) placed [left / center / right] [expressing emotion] while [activity]. Scale directive: Milim is extremely small, about 5% of total image height; the surrounding world occupies 90% of the frame with huge calm negative space. Character details: very long, unbound bright pink hair (NO TWINTAILS), blue eyes, two yellow star hairpins, black oversized hoodie with cute white baby dragon print, thigh-high socks with pink stripes.
Style: flat editorial screenprint illustration; [Palette description: e.g. warm golden amber, cream, and single Milim-pink accent #ec4899]; broad flat shapes, subtle paper texture.
Constraints: no tree-derived imagery; no text, UI, code, charts, graphs, diagrams, logos, watermarks, or hyper-detailed rendering.

Production Workflow

1. Generate candidate into assets/workbench/generated/ using gemini-3.1-flash-image or gpt-image-2.
2. Export 1600×900 WebP derivative to assets/generated/ and public/assets/.
3. Run npx tsx scripts/assets/sync-asset-ledger.ts and npx tsx scripts/assets/check-asset-ledger.ts --strict.