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# Wallo / Material Notes

Wallo presents five concise lessons in a working material library; Pippa demonstrates the physical choices. Real DesignerWallcoverings.com products are the visual subject.

User direction: five more shorts, less hokey, real joint animation; Wallo delivers a wallcovering presentation; use products from designerwallcoverings.com. Five 20-second vertical films and a combined 100-second presentation.

Adult-proportioned editorial illustration: heads approximately one sixth of total height; natural noses and smaller eyes; understated expressions. Wallo retains his moustache, mustard cap and deep teal workwear. Pippa retains auburn hair and rust shirt. No comic splats, bouncing labels or oversized smiles.

Rig: stable two-bone inverse kinematics for upper/lower arms and legs; constant bone lengths; shoulder and pelvis counter-rotation; planted footsteps; elbows bend toward anatomically chosen poles; wrists orient props; knees flex during a crouch. Gaze, blinks, mouth opening derived from narration energy, torso shifts and hand gestures support speech. Pippa handles actual samples and a cleaning cloth. Props are attached to the solved hand position.

Palette: chalk #eeeae2, ink #243a3b, forest #284f4b, clay #a9634d, muted brass #b7924f. Typography: locally embedded Georgia for editorial headlines; Verdana for information. Product labels are live text, 28px minimum; caveats 25px minimum. Upper headline, large central studio scene, lower caption band, understated DW attribution. Main text remains clear of faces and product samples.

One continuous architectural stage per short. Camera moves between an establishing view, a closer materials demonstration and the final recommendation. Motion uses deterministic IK and eased keyframe interpolation with the HyperFrames `discrete-text-sequence` rule for caption state changes. Captions follow measured voice segments. No source product artwork is recolored or altered; wall installations are illustrative and not to scale.

Narration: local Kokoro Michael voice as Wallo. Original low-level restrained musical bed, no cartoon effects. No cloning. Test claims describe the test, never a fireproof guarantee or invented certification. Product rating is verified from its report before specification; cleaner compatibility remains product specific.

DTD: A (articulated editorial 2D) selected by 2/2 valid voters (Codex and Qwen), 2/6 available. Claude disabled by zero-cost policy; Grok/Kimi/Muse unavailable. Post-decision Codex: KEEP, with the warning that rigging alone does not prove convincing movement. Visually inspect joint motion and contact before committing.