Sources

All fetched 2026-10-01. Two sub-agents did the reading (their reports: notes/painted-meadows-research.md, notes/realtime-grass-research.md). WebFetch answers through a summarising model, so a quote here is a close paraphrase unless marked checked: those four I fetched again myself and the wording held. Blogspot pages were read through the r.jina.ai reader proxy, Ben Golus's Medium article through a translation proxy.

No image, page or frame was downloaded. Descriptions of published art marked observation in the README are from memory.

The game (read in full, `a local file`, 2026-10-01)

Source	Taken from it
`docs/art-direction.md`	the two looks, the palettes, the paint pass's steps and numbers, the × 3 rule, the budget table
`docs/flora.md`, `docs/trees.md`	today's cards, drifts, atlas, the pipeline; camera-facing cards and the dithered hand-over on trees
`docs/ground.md`, `docs/lighting.md`	kinds of ground, the ground's detail, cloud shade, the single shadow tap, dusk's rule
`docs/perf.md`, `docs/perf-review.md`	pipelines and warm-up rules, the fill's budget hole, `uPusher`, the wasted vertices past the fade, fill times
`docs/regions.md`, `src/world/grade.ts`, `src/world/look.ts`	the six regions and Alvheim, the per-region pattern, the seam
`src/world/grass.ts`, `grass-fill.ts`, `flora-cards.ts`, `flora-atlas.ts`, `flower-bushes.ts`, `flora-speckle.ts`, `wind.ts`, `tiles/meshes.ts`, `atmosphere.ts`, `engine/paint.ts`, `pipeline/flora/subjects.mjs`	everything in README section 1 and the structures the code in section 4 is written against
`a local file` (sheets, `after/`, `atlas/`), `artdir/look2/sheets/`	how it looks today

Painted references

URL	What	Taken from it
https://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/26/amulet-the-stonekeeper/	review of Amulet	line on figures, backgrounds "more implied than realized"; detail in establishing panels
https://www.cbr.com/labyrinths-and-monsters-kibuishi-talks-amulet/	Kibuishi interview	colour schemes by the mood of a section
https://illustrationtuts.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/kazu-kibuishis-technique/	repost of his Copper tutorial	work out from a midtone
https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/interview-with-kazu-kibuishi-author-of-amulet/	interview	values first, then warm against cool
https://www.boltcityproductions.com/amulet	Bolt City	colour team credits
https://serienett.no/serienett/bjornar-en-historie-fra-nordlys/	Serienett review of Nordlys	Falch paints backgrounds, Holst inks figures; contours against painterly backgrounds
https://barnebokinstituttet.no/manedens_illustrator/malin-falch/	Falch profile	Photoshop aiming at traditional technique; Disney and Ghibli
https://empirix.no/nordlys-malin-falch-intervju/	Falch interview	own photo reference; Kittelsen, Bauer
https://empirix.no/anmeldelse-nordlys/	review	colour and light
https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/lovende-tegneserie-fra-lysende-talent/69571502	review	national-romantic landscapes
https://www.flavorwire.com/464926/the-famous-artworks-that-inspired-15-films	Keane on Fragonard (secondary)	Tangled as a painting that moves
https://animatedviews.com/2010/tangled-an-interview-with-disney-designer-laurent-ben-mimoun/	interview	sepia under-layer, opaque bright colour on top
https://disneyanimation.com/publications/art-directing-disneys-tangled-procedural-trees/	Shek et al., SIGGRAPH 2010	a canopy shell, then filled
https://culturemechanism.blogspot.com/2014/05/four-ways-rococo-made-its-way-into.html	blog analysis	distant trees as swaths of colour
https://beforesandafters.com/2019/11/25/the-tech-behind-all-those-trees-in-frozen-2/	Frozen II vegetation	nested clumps, the Droplet placing tool
https://nerdist.com/article/frozen-ii-sleeping-beauty-disney-inspiration/	Frozen II art direction	narrowed palette
https://www.awardsdaily.com/2019/09/30/lisa-keene-david-womersley-uncover-the-world-of-frozen-2/	Lisa Keene	"bring order to randomness"; silhouettes
https://d23.com/details-to-discover-in-frozen-2/	Sean Jenkins	ground cover cleared where characters are
https://history.siggraph.org/learning/modeling-animated-jumbo-floral-display-on-disneys-encanto-by-finley-erickson-mund-and-liu/	SIGGRAPH 2022 abstract	flowers as colour cells
https://d23.com/qa-inside-the-magical-world-of-the-art-of-encanto/	Encanto art	jewel tones
https://keyframemagazine.org/2023/12/12/wishing-on-stars/	Wish (Odermatt, Kaur)	less detail, not blur; selective line; clumped colour
https://beforesandafters.com/2023/11/22/its-actually-what-an-illustrator-wouldve-done/	Wish	the far field as a washed card
https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2023/11/wish.html	Yining Karl Li	canopies lit as one form
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/wish-disney-animation/	Disney	line and paper texture
https://www.redsharknews.com/why-netflixs-arcane-looks-so-good-how-fortiche-ramped-up-the-animation-pipeline	Arcane (no named speaker)	light painted into textures
https://80.lv/articles/arcane-artists-show-how-they-combine-traditional-art-3d-for-backgrounds/	Arcane	detail where characters touch the set
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/how-klaus-draws-on-centuries-old-artistic-principles-to-push-2d-animation-forward-182325.html	Klaus	simplify the shading; light in passes
https://animatedviews.com/2022/production-designer-matthias-lechner-attacks-the-sea-beast/ , https://www.matthiaslechner.com/the-sea-beast.html	The Sea Beast	controlled gardens against wild nature
https://www.ludogavillet.com/wolfwalkers , https://www.almuredondo.com/wolfwalkers	Wolfwalkers artists	watercolour forest, lino-cut town; value structure; line disappearing
https://www.vfxvoice.com/cartoon-saloon-running-with-wolves-in-wolfwalkers/	Moore, Stewart	the transition at the forest's edge
https://beforesandafters.com/2020/12/16/wolfwalkers-and-the-art-of-staging-shots/ , https://awardsradar.com/2021/03/04/interview-wolfwalkers-artists-on-creating-magic-between-the-lines/	Wolfwalkers	scribbly forest layouts; muted town, passionate forest
https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/07/part-1-foliage-painting-tools.html , /2015/12/foliage-is-lightest-at-its-outer-edges.html , /2007/09/reverse-atmospheric-perspective.html , /2021/11/tips-for-dappled-light.html	James Gurney	big shapes first; lightest at the outer edges; distance
https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/01/orchestrating-cloud-shadows.html	James Gurney, checked	the two cloud-shadow schemes
https://www.mitchalbala.com/value-divisions-in-landscape/	Carlson's value planes	four values in a landscape
https://drawpaintacademy.com/grass/ , https://drawpaintacademy.com/ground/	Dan Scott	compressed values in grass; stroke direction
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/7-tips-for-painting-wildflowers-and-grasses/ , https://kemstudios.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-tip-for-painting-wildflowers-in-meadow.html	Karen Margulis	flowers as masses; "polka dot meadows"

Real-time grass

URL	What	Taken from it
https://gdcvault.com/play/1027033/Advanced-Graphics-Summit-Procedural-Grass	Wohllaib, GDC 2021 (abstract only; the talk is members-only)	blades generated per blade on the GPU
https://tigerabrodi.blog/what-we-can-learn-from-grass-in-ghost-of-tsushima-renders	write-up of that talk, checked	83 000 blades, 2.5 ms, 15 and 7 vertices, far tiles twice as big
https://github.com/cainrademan/Unity-Grass	reimplementation	voronoi clumps with shared parameters, scrolling noise wind, normals
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/using-vorticles-to-simulate-wind-in-i-ghost-of-tsushima-i-	Rockenbeck	constant direction, strength varied by moving noise shows as gusts; petals as particles
https://github.com/simondevyoutube/Quick_Grass , its `grass-component.js` and shaders	SimonDev, three.js; the vertex shader checked	3 072 blades a patch, 14 and 4 vertices, push by `smoothstep(2.5, 1.0, dist)`, normals mixed to up with distance, opaque
https://github.com/2Retr0/GodotGrass	Godot	wind texture, cellular clumps, two meshes
https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Grass.extm , https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Terrain	BotW, data-mined	height and colour a grid point; colour matches the ground
https://www.resetera.com/threads/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-the-technical-analysis.8197/page-4 , https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/botw-grass-style/437647	community observation	near polygons, far shading
https://smythdesign.com/blog/stylized-grass-webgl/	James Smyth, three.js	5-vertex blades, scrolling cloud texture
https://danielilett.com/2021-08-24-tut5-17-stylised-grass/ , https://roystan.net/articles/grass-shader/ , https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/gpu-instanced-grass-breakdown/	tutorials	the stylised recipe: normals up or the terrain's, two colours, a wind texture
https://80.lv/articles/meadows-creating-stylized-nature-in-ue4	David Holland	large-scale colour variation; flowers as painted cut-outs
https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Grass	Acerola	chunked buffers, chunk LOD
https://aleksandargjoreski.dev/blog/growing-my-grass-shader/ , https://github.com/hieudeptrai196/grass	TSL grass	thinning with distance; gust layers; author's numbers, untested
https://80.lv/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-interview-with-the-team	Guerrilla	alpha test in a depth-only pass first
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/how-shedworks-refined-the-art-of-sable-in-pursuit-of-readability	Sable, GDC 2022	fog, outline fading with distance
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0013	The Witness	blue-noise placement with varying radius
https://gamedev.center/tutorial-how-to-make-an-interactive-grass-shader-in-unity/ , https://godotshaders.com/shader/stylized-grass-with-wind-and-deformation/ , https://www.karthikchandran.com/project/grass-project/	interaction	one uniform; a radius; a render target
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10602/	Apple, checked	hidden surface removal; draw order opaque, alpha test, translucent
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10603/ , https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/85318	Apple	overdraw; discard
https://docs.imgtec.com/starter-guides/powervr-architecture/html/topics/rules/do-not-use-discard.html	Imagination	avoid discard
https://bgolus.medium.com/anti-aliased-alpha-test-the-esoteric-alpha-to-coverage-8b177335ae4f (read through a translation proxy)	Ben Golus	alpha sharpened by `fwidth`; coverage in mips
https://hexaquo.at/pages/grass-rendering-series-part-4-level-of-detail-tricks-for-infinite-plains-of-grass-in-godot/	Godot series	the ground stand-in beyond the blades; darker from above
http://3dworldgen.blogspot.com/2015/05/infinite-fields-of-grass.html	3DWorld	fewer, wider blades with distance; blades sink
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Three.js-Shading-Language , https://threejs.org/docs/pages/TSL.html	three.js	`varying`, `vertexStage`, vertex texture reads, instanced attributes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(A16) , https://www.notebookcheck.com/Apple-A16-GPU-5-Core-Grafikkarte-Benchmarks-und-Spezifikationen.652743.0.html	the device	4-core GPU, 2360 × 1640, 6 GB

Could not be confirmed

How Kibuishi or Falch paint grass, fields or flowers: no statement of theirs found (his process videos gave no transcript; her interviews at Empirix, Barnebokinstituttet, NRK and Dagsavisen do not cover it).
Any craft source on grass or meadows for Tangled, Encanto, Arcane, Klaus or The Sea Beast; a look talk for Frozen II's vegetation.
Wohllaib's talk itself, the Horizon Zero Dawn slides and the God of War slides (members-only or too large to fetch): Ghost of Tsushima's numbers rest on two write-ups; "blades are replaced by a terrain texture far off" appeared in a search snippet only.
Official material on Breath of the Wild's grass rendering (the CEDEC 2017 reports found cover other topics).
Anything technical on Genshin Impact, Tears of the Kingdom, Ori, Kena or Tunic grass.
A shipped game's source for brightening grass in a gust.
A measurement of grass on an Apple mobile GPU or in Safari's WebGPU, or of opaque blades against alpha-tested cards on Apple hardware.
The game's own grass GPU time: never measured; the 0.1 ms on the M3 in the README is inferred from two lines in docs/lighting.md.
Krea 2 as the Mac runs it: offline. The card blocks ran on Venice's hosted krea-v2-large instead.
That setDrawRange limits every instance's indices on three 0.186's WebGPU backend, and that cloudShade in the grass's colorNode runs per fragment today: both read from the code's shape, not from a run.