Empty background plate (location only, no characters) for a 3D animated children's science film in a soft Pixar-like 3D render style. Location: the ocean's upper floor, a sunlit shallow tropical coral reef about 6 metres deep. Warm bright sunlight, clear turquoise water, slanted sun rays from the upper right and matching rippling caustic light patterns on the sand and corals; the rippled water surface is visible high above. On the left side a large grey rock outcrop, taller than an adult, weathered and partly encrusted, with several deep dark cracks; one narrow crevice about the width of a fist sits at mid height. The reef is varied and realistic: branching staghorn corals, flat table corals, round brain corals, purple sea fans, soft corals in orange, yellow, pink and violet, green and brown coral tones too, coral rubble and small shells at their bases. In the centre lies a flat open patch of fine white sand, level and wide, room for two children about 1.3 m tall to float above it. In the background small reef fish with clearly drawn bodies, eyes, fins and tails: blue-yellow damselfish, orange anthias, a pair of yellow butterflyfish, a teal-green parrotfish nibbling a coral far away. The reference picture is used only for the cheerful colour mood. Cinematic 16:9.
