auteur

1Auteur designs and builds web experiences the way a film director makes a film: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — **build** (an excellent conventional site), **direct** (a cinematic scroll-directed site) and **system** (a multi-screen product as one design system) — on one shared core of taste. Nothing ships until the page passes an executable anti-slop gate and the skill has looked at its own output.
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3### Use this when
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5- A landing page, marketing site, hero section, portfolio or product page has to be **built or redesigned** — and looking generic is not acceptable.
6- The brief asks for **scroll animation, storytelling, or a site that feels like a film**.
7- A product spans **several screens that must feel like one thing** — app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs.
8- Someone says *make it beautiful*, *make it wow*, *cinematic*, or *design system*, naming no technique.
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10Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.
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12### What it actually does
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141. Commits the art direction **in writing before any markup** — one hue, one type system, a motion budget, named anti-references.
152. Generates or sources the assets: local image/video CLIs, Blender, depth maps, CC0 meshes and HDRIs with their licences recorded.
163. Builds from proven recipes — one WebGL context, transform/opacity motion, scroll state machines.
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