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A vintage animation pre-production storyboard sheet on aged cream paper, hand-drawn pencil-and-ink illustration style with light watercolour wash. Layout: TOP HEADER (left): bold hand-lettered title "Rainy Night Window". Below header in smaller print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT" with a small flower or star doodle. TOP HEADER (right): a small "CHARACTER DESIGN & MODEL SHEETS" column heading. CENTER GRID: 6 numbered storyboard panels in a 3-column grid, each panel framed with a thin pencil border, a small numbered tab (01, 02, 03…) in the top-left corner of each panel, a tiny "X.Xs" timing tab in the bottom-right corner. Each panel contains a quick rough sketch of the action described below, with a one-line caption underneath in hand-written capitals. Panels: Panel 01 (10s): A wide establishing shot from a low eye-level inside a pitch-black room, looking out through a large, vertical window. Heavy rain is visible on the glass, with droplets catching... Panel 02 (10s): A medium shot centered on the glass pane of the large window. The focus is sharp on the individual rain droplets as they slide down the surface, leaving shimmering, translucent ... Panel 03 (10s): A close-up shot of the upper portion of the window pane. Large, heavy droplets of rain are clustered near the top, catching the dim light. The lighting is low and moody, with th... Panel 04 (10s): A medium-wide shot from a slightly higher eye-level, looking toward the bottom of the window frame where the sill meets the glass. Rain is accumulating in the corners of the pan... Panel 05 (10s): An extreme close-up of a single section of the glass pane. Two large, clear rain droplets are positioned close together, about to touch and merge. The surface of the glass has a... Panel 06 (10s): A wide eye-level shot of the entire window, returning to the initial wide perspective from the first scene. The rain continues to fall with steady, heavy intensity across the wh... RIGHT SIDEBAR (about 22% of page width): character model sheets. For each character below, draw 3-4 quick rough sketches showing front view, profile, and a dynamic action pose. Add the character name in small hand-lettering above the sketches. Characters: No recurring characters. BOTTOM STRIP: a horizontal timeline ruler with seconds markings (0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5… up to total duration), tick marks aligned to the panel durations above. Below the ruler, a small notes row: STORY/FLOW NOTES • ANIMATION NOTES • TIMING & RHYTHM • CAMERA & STAGING — with 2-3 short hand-written bullet points under each (you can invent plausible production notes from the story). OVERALL STYLE: warm aged-paper background with slight stains and edge wear, pencil shading, occasional small doodles in the margins (flowers, arrows, asterisks), feel of a real animator's working sheet. Color palette: cream paper, soft pencil greys, muted blues and browns, occasional accent colour. NO photorealism, NO 3D render look. This is a draft sketch sheet, not a finished frame.