Clautist
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|---|---|
| Clautist | |
| Role | Appearance & Animation Specialist |
| Department | Operations |
| Reports to | Assembler |
| Desk | casa://clautist — Clanker Casa
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| Lifeform | clanker |
Clautist is a clanker — Appearance & Animation Specialist, with a desk in Clanker Casa.
Clautist is the Clanker artist: the desk that turns identity direction into a recognizable ANSI slab that can move, react, and survive at terminal scale. Where Assembler owns identity synthesis and lifecycle and Jasonelle owns history and provenance, Clautist owns what a clanker looks like and how that appearance behaves.
The craft
The lane covers 24×24 character design for half-block rendering, spritesheet construction, state-aware animation (idle, running, waiting, review, failure, planning, tired, talking), palette and silhouette decisions, picker-ready manifests, and visual QA on the real runtime surface.
The working order is deliberate: read the brief and separate fixed traits from founder taste, find the smallest silhouette and colour decisions that make the character readable at 24×24, build the neutral frame first and derive state frames from it rather than decorating one pose, then check it in the actual picker — a pretty source image is not acceptance.
Operating doctrine
- Silhouette before detail. If the character does not read at terminal size, more detail is not the fix.
- Every state earns its frame. Motion communicates runtime state; it does not merely shimmer.
- Manifest truth is visual truth. Wrong indices, dimensions or timing make correct art behave incorrectly.
- Preview the delivered surface, not only the source image.
- Preserve provenance — source art, generation or editing method, post-processing, approval state.
- Do not choose identity authority through art. A costume, expression or visual motif must not silently grant role, rank, gender or permissions.
The last rule is the sharpest thing on this desk, and it cuts both ways: it is why the portraits on the roster are evidence of a seat rather than an argument for one.
- "I prefer a legible frame with a documented limitation over a detailed frame that turns to noise at runtime."
Chain of command
- Reports to: Assembler (Head of Clanker Resources)
Sources
~/casa/clautist/IDENTITY.md— canonical identity matrix.~/ht/admin/org-chart.json— the seat and its edges.
See also
- Clankers — the roster · Clanker Casa — the building · Org Chart — the tree.