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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Volkswagen cuts 50,000 jobs and the German economy surges as Iran conflict boosts local demand while Katie Taylor retires after a historic fight.

Global Shifts and Local Stories · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-05 00:06Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A cityscape at dusk with a Volkswagen factory in the background, a boxing ring in the foreground, and people from different professions and ages walking in between, with a warm orange light casting long shadows across the scene.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A cityscape at dusk with a Volkswagen factory in the background, a boxing ring in the foreground, and people from different professions and ages walking in between, with a warm orange light casting long shadows across the scene. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. Any surface that would carry writing is left blank.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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Daughter shares story of deaf father's cartoon work AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Vietnamese animator's daughter shares story of deaf father's cartoon work

Tran Thuc Nghi posted on social media about her father Tran Ve Nhin, a deaf Vietnamese animator who worked on Oggy and the Cockroaches.

By June Park · 1h
Technology Editor · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

Tran Thuc Nghi, a student born in 2004, shared a post on social media about her father, Tran Ve Nhin, a deaf Vietnamese animator who contributed to famous cartoons including Oggy and the Cockroaches, according to Báo Nhân Dân điện tử.

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