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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 (The Devil + Misha): 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 THE DEVIL — copy him exactly: a long GOAT-LIKE SKULL for a head, tall CURLING RAM HORNS with ring motifs, a mane of black smoke-flame hair, two glowing EMBER EYES, soot-black skin cracked with glowing ember lines, a tattered CRIMSON-AND-BLACK folk-embroidered caftan hung with chains; his head sits low on massive shoulders on a short thick neck. The 2nd sheet is MISHA: about twenty, tall and thin, messy swept-up brown hair, LARGE CLEAR-FRAMED GLASSES, GREY-BLUE leather armor, a SLATE-BLUE hooded cape, plain village sword. ONLY TWO CHARACTERS: the Devil and Misha. 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: low, from behind Misha's shoulder. Misha in the near foreground at the bottom of the frame, seen from behind and in three-quarter — the edge of his glasses and his cheek visible, his slate-blue cape flying. The Devil's head and shoulders loom large in the upper middle of the frame, facing toward Misha. SCENE: «First Blood»: Misha «The Eye» has just run in and HURLED his village sword — his throwing arm is still extended forward, fingers open, his whole body following through the throw, his other arm swung back for balance. A thin flat motion trail runs from his hand to the demon. The sword has struck home: it is buried point-first in ONE of the Devil's two ember eyes, the hilt jutting out of the socket of the goat skull. From the struck eye bursts a flat ornamental splash of ember-orange light and black smoke-flame motifs — no realistic blood, no gore. The Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» rears back, his skull wrenched sideways, jaws gaping in a roar, his other eye still burning. Forest clearing, carved stone columns, pines, red dusk sky with a black sun. Mood: the first wound — he can be hurt. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no realistic blood, no gore, no exposed flesh, no human demon, no human face on the demon, no long neck, no Misha without glasses, no sword still in Misha's hand, no extra arms, no disembodied hands, no twisted anatomy, no third character.