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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines with visible line-weight variation, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat, minimal gradients), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO gloss. Cinematic 16:9 storyboard frame, high emotional readability. Match the FLAT decorative folk-art look of the attached character sheets (Artyom + Lastochka): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. ATTACHMENT ORDER: the 1st sheet is ARTYOM: about twenty, shoulder-length dark-blond curtain hair parted in the middle, heavy straight brows, clean-shaven, BROWN leather armor with green-and-gold embroidery, a MOSS-GREEN cloak, a thin red-and-white ribbon on his wrist, and his NAGINATA — a long polearm with a slender curved single-edged blade, small round guard and red-brown wrapped shaft. The 2nd sheet is LASTOCHKA: about twenty-two, ash-blonde hair in a low braid with a woven ribbon, cream embroidered linen shirt, DARK-RED sarafan with a green sash, a swallow charm at her throat. ONLY TWO CHARACTERS: Artyom and Lastochka. Nobody else in the frame. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. CAMERA: a medium shot at eye level. Artyom faces the viewer in three-quarter view, so HIS RIGHT side is on the VIEWER'S LEFT and his left side is on the viewer's right. HANDS — EXACTLY FOUR IN THE WHOLE FRAME, each clearly attached to its own arm: Artyom's RIGHT hand grips the naginata; Artyom's LEFT arm is held back by Lastochka; BOTH of Lastochka's hands are wrapped together around Artyom's LEFT forearm. No other hands anywhere. Nobody holds the cloak. SCENE: «Let Me Go»: Artyom «Serdtse» holds his naginata upright in his RIGHT hand — on the VIEWER'S LEFT side of the frame, the long shaft standing beside him, blade high. He is already striding forward off the rune circle carved flat into the stone ground, his jaw set, eyes fixed past the edge of the frame toward the battle, where a red-orange glow and flat sparks light the dusk. Lastochka «the Swallow» stands just behind him at his LEFT side — on the VIEWER'S RIGHT — clutching his left forearm with both of her hands, pulling back, her face pale and pleading, eyes full of tears. Artyom is pulling that left arm free of her grip as he steps away. His green cloak hangs freely behind him. Pines and carved stone columns behind, red dusk sky. Mood: he chooses to fight for his friends. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no extra hands, no fifth hand, no disembodied hands, no hand holding the cloak, no hands on the ground, no naginata in his left hand, no Lastochka on his right side, no violence toward her, no one falling, no twisted anatomy, no third character, no demon in the frame.