---
name: noir-style
description: Noir art direction for Blender with high-contrast lighting, wet streets, silhouettes, and monochrome or limited-color grading.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: https://github.com/arjun988
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: blender
  role: specialist
  triggers: noir, neo-noir, hardboiled, detective noir, high contrast black and white
  related-skills: camera-cinematography, lighting, compositing, materials, lookdev
---

# Noir Style

Shadows as design. Silhouettes. Wet ground mirrors. Limited color or mono.

## Tenets
1. Motivated hard keys / blinds / neon slash
2. Negative fill
3. Smoke/fog shafts
4. Costume readable in silhouette
5. Grade crushed but detailed shadows