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Scientific character reference sheet for a 3D animated children's film: the giant squid Architeuthis dux, alive, in the same soft stylized 3D look and dark teal twilight-zone water as image 3. Anatomy follows the real specimen in image 1 exactly. Layout on a dark teal background, three panels. TOP PANEL, full width: side view of the whole living squid swimming horizontally, total length 12 metres from the tip of the mantle to the end of the two feeding tentacles; next to its mantle floats one child in an orange suit and clear bubble helmet from image 2, 1.3 m tall, as a size ruler: the mantle (body tube) is about 2 m long, about one and a half times the child's height; the head with the eye; eight thick arms about 1.5 m long, each with two rows of suckers; two very long thin feeding tentacles, together making up about two thirds of the total length, each ending in a slightly widened club; two small rounded fins at the tip of the mantle that together form a small heart shape; the funnel (siphon) visible under the head. Skin a living reddish-maroon to brick red with tiny darker spots, the underside paler pink. A simple horizontal scale bar under the squid marked 0, 5 m, 10 m. BOTTOM LEFT PANEL: close-up of the head: one huge round dark eye with a silvery rim, about 27 cm across, larger than the child's whole head shown next to it for comparison; the eight arms emerging around the mouth. BOTTOM RIGHT PANEL: close-up of one feeding-tentacle club with four neat rows of round suckers, each sucker with a fine toothed ring. Clean, clear, no extra creatures.