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A polished studio concept art board — a single composite page that reads as a high-end pre-production pitch deck for an animated short. NOT a vintage pencil sketch, NOT a finished movie frame, but a polished concept page in the visual treatment described below. Layout: TOP HEADER (left): bold modern display typography for the title "The Soul of Tokyo Ramen", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • 3D PIXAR". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 6 numbered storyboard panels in a 3-column grid. Each panel is a softly rounded card with a thin warm-grey border and a delicate drop shadow (studio pre-prod board look). Inside every panel: a finished miniature of the action — rendered in the visual treatment described below. Top-left of each panel a small bold numbered tab (01, 02, 03…) and bottom-right an "X.Xs" timing tab — both set in clean modern typography (NOT hand-lettering). Panels: Panel 01 (6s): A narrow, rain-slicked side street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, at twilight. Neon signs in vibrant magenta and electric blue reflect in deep puddles on the dark asphalt. In the center, a... Panel 02 (4s): The view from the entrance of the ramen shop as the wooden sliding door opens. Thick, white clouds of savory steam billow outward into the cool night air. Inside, a warm interio... Panel 03 (6s): Chef Kenji stands behind the wooden counter, steam rising all around him from boiling vats of water. He is mid-motion, lifting a bamboo noodle strainer with steam curling around... Panel 04 (4s): An extreme close-up of a ceramic bowl being filled with ramen. The broth is a creamy, opaque tan color with droplets of oil glistening on the surface. Fresh, thin noodles are vi... Panel 05 (6s): Hana sits at the counter, leaning over her steaming bowl. Her face is illuminated by the rising steam, which catches the warm light of the shop. She holds a pair of dark wooden ... Panel 06 (4s): A close-up of the ramen shop's exterior sign, a vertical wooden board with carved kanji characters that glow from an internal light source. The rain has slowed to a drizzle, and... RIGHT SIDEBAR (about 22% of page width): character model sheets. For each character below, render 3-4 polished turnaround sketches — front view, three-quarter view, profile, and a dynamic action pose — each in the visual treatment described below. Character name set in crisp modern typography above each set: Kenji — A Japanese man in his late 50s with short, salt-and-pepper hair tucked under a traditional dark blue hachimaki headband. He has deep set ... Hana — A Japanese woman in her late 20s with a weary but gentle expression. Her black hair is pulled back into a loose, slightly messy low bun w... BOTTOM STRIP: a horizontal timeline ruler with seconds markings (0, 5, 10, 15… up to total duration), tick marks aligned to the panel durations above — clean vector look, not hand-drawn. Below the ruler, a tidy notes row: STORY / FLOW • ANIMATION • TIMING & RHYTHM • CAMERA — each with 2-3 short polished bullet points in crisp typography (you can invent plausible production notes from the story). VISUAL TREATMENT FOR PANELS AND CHARACTER LINEUP (THIS IS THE CRITICAL PART): hyper-stylized cartoon 3D feature animation in the manner of Pixar — huge expressive eyes, soft sub-surface scattering on skin/fur, warm golden-hour key light, painterly bokeh backgrounds, smooth volumetric forms, glossy material highlights, warm coral and golden accents. OVERALL STYLE: high-end studio mood-board page with the visual treatment above carried through every panel and every character render consistently. Clean modern typography, soft drop shadows on cards, occasional smooth-gradient accents in the margins (sparkles, stars, arrows). NO aged-paper look, NO hand-pencil sketches, NO mixed styles — every miniature on this page is rendered in the same single visual treatment described above. This is a polished pre-production concept page, finished enough to pitch in a studio review meeting.