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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 "A 90-second bedtime cartoon for kids, about 14 scenes, gentle narrator. Bao, a tiny red panda cub...", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • WARM 3D ANIMATED FEATURE LOOK, SOFT MOONLIGHT BLUE AND FIREFLY GOLD, ROUND FRIENDLY SHAPES". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 14 numbered storyboard panels in a 4-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): Night bamboo pond, wide shot. Bao crouches on the bank with one paw already stretched over the water toward a round moon reflection between lily pads; moonlight blue, firefly gold. Panel 02 (6s): Medium shot of Bao on the bank, his paw still touching the rippling water; broken silver reflection below him and bamboo stalks behind. Panel 03 (6s): Wide shot: Bao kneels at the shallow pond edge, both paws cupped just above the water; silver fragments float among the lily pads. Panel 04 (7s): Medium shot: Bao at the edge holding the rim of a broad lily pad with both paws; the brightest silver fragment lies just beyond it. Panel 05 (7s): Wide shot: Bao on the bank beside a fallen long green bamboo leaf; silver fragments float a little way out among the pads. Panel 06 (7s): Medium shot: Bao mid-stroke with the bamboo leaf in the water; the moon reflection is beginning to stretch behind the leaf. Panel 07 (7s): Medium shot: Bao leans over the water with one paw resting on the edge of a lily pad; other pads float close beside it. Panel 08 (6s): Medium shot: Bao on the bank with one paw raised over a single silver fragment; fragments flash all around. Panel 09 (7s): Low wide shot: Old Owl perches on a mossy branch over the pond, wings slightly open; Bao sits hunched on the bank below. Panel 10 (6s): Medium shot: Bao sits hunched on the bank with his head lowered; the mossy branch with Old Owl is visible above him. Panel 11 (7s): Medium shot: Bao standing on the bank, turned toward the pond; the trembling silver fragments lie before him. Panel 12 (7s): Wide shot: Bao sits on the bank with his tail tucked around his feet; silver fragments ripple softly among the lily pads. Panel 13 (5s): Close shot: one last ripple ring crossing the nearly whole moon reflection toward the bank, with Bao's paws at the edge of the frame. Panel 14 (8s): Medium shot: Bao sits upright beside the whole moon reflection; Old Owl rests on the mossy branch above. 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: Bao — Tiny red panda, knee-high to a lily-pad stem. Round head with big rounded ears tipped cream and white. Big amber eyes and a cream-white f... Old Owl — Round, egg-shaped grey owl, about twice Bao's height. Short folded wings and stubby legs gripping a mossy branch. Pale cream heart-shaped... NARRATOR — Off-screen voice only. Never drawn, never shown and never represented by any figure, face or shape in the frame. The narrator exists pure... 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): polished pre-production concept render in the "warm 3D animated feature look, soft moonlight blue and firefly gold, round friendly shapes" visual treatment — apply that style as the dominant aesthetic across every panel and character thumbnail consistently. Keep the studio mood-board feel: crisp typography, soft card shadows, no aged-paper or pencil-sketch look, no mixed styles. 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.