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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 lonely old lighthouse keeper finds a tiny glowing whale stranded on the rocks during a storm an...", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • CINEMATIC REALISTIC". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 3 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 (5s): Jagged black basalt reef at night in a howling storm. Rain and sea spray fly horizontally from right to left. The only light sources are a warm circle cast by a lit brass storm ... Panel 02 (5s): Medium shot on the black basalt reef at night in a storm, matching the tail of the previous clip. Arno is a weathered old keeper with a silver beard in a bright yellow oilskin. ... Panel 03 (5s): Underwater in the pitch-black open ocean depths at night. The only light comes from bioluminescence. Side-on, looking upward from below, there is exactly one colossal original c... 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: Arno — on a rain-lashed rocky jetty — Arno, a weathered lighthouse keeper in his late fifties, centered as the storm fills the sides. Tall, lean... The Calf — the entire figure visible from head to fluke, held upright and presented vertically for a clear reference, correct orientation. The Calf ... The Deep Mother — the entire figure visible from head to fluke, oriented upright and rising vertically like a breaching titan from black water, centered wi... 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): photorealistic cinematic still frame, anamorphic 2.39:1 framing inside each panel, naturalistic skin and fabric, hard key + soft fill lighting, shallow depth of field, slight film grain, muted teal-and-orange grade. 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.