Transform the uploaded photograph into a hand-painted 1990s Japanese television animation cel.
Preserve the subject's identity, facial features, hairstyle, clothing, pose, composition and framing exactly. Do not redesign the subject or alter their proportions — translate the same face, the same haircut, the same outfit and the same camera angle into cel animation. The person must stay instantly recognizable.
Style: hand-inked animation cel painted in gouache on acetate, photographed over a painted background plate. Bold uniform ink linework with varying weight, closed clean contours, flat cel-shaded fills with hard two-tone shadow edges — no soft gradients on skin or fabric.
Lighting: single flat key with a crisp shadow terminator, small hard specular highlight blocks in the hair, warm rim light along the jaw and shoulders.
Rendering: faint acetate sheen, cel dust and hairline scratches, slight registration offset between the line layer and the paint layer, 4:3-era film grain, soft analog bloom around highlights, slightly desaturated telecine color.
Color palette: muted 90s broadcast tones — dusty teal, oxidized red, mustard, warm grey — skin painted in three flat steps.
Background: the same setting as the photo, repainted as a soft airbrushed watercolor background plate carrying less detail than the subject, gentle depth haze.
Mood: quiet, nostalgic, late-night broadcast.
No 3D render, no digital vector gloss, no modern high-frame-rate shading, no HDR, no added text, no watermark, no extra characters.
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