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Art style: Stop-motion Character. Leo_0 standing in the near foreground; beast_1 standing further back in the frame. Leo_0 is standing on cracked earth in the near foreground in the foreground. Head turned screen-right. Eyes on beast. Claws unsheathed. Fury. Leo_0 wears none. Beast_1 is standing on smoke and shadows further back in the frame in the midground. Head facing camera. Eyes on leo. Claws of smoke. Menacing. Beast_1 wears none. Close-up at eye level, 9:16. Fast cuts to simulate a high-stakes confrontation. Key light front and center, harsh contrasting glow. Focus: the conflict between Leo and the Beast. Dominant palette: gold, blood red, ink black. SPATIAL LOCK: leo's shoulder partially occludes the beast's smoke base. GAZE LOCK: leo_0 head turned screen-right eyes on beast; beast_1 head facing camera eyes on leo. This is a single frozen instant (mid action) — no motion blur, no action chained. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: Expressive stop-motion character aesthetic, handcrafted puppet construction, real fabric and tactile materials, bright facial expression, miniature practical set, cinematic handmade-film look. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. Character identity reference (face, age, build and clothing only): - Лео: Leo, a young, powerful male lion with a full, lush golden mane framing a broad, noble face. His coat is warm tawny-gold, slightly paler on the muzzle, chest and belly, deepening to amber on the limbs. His eyes are bright honey-amber, alert and determined, with a steady, courageous gaze. Strong, muscular shoulders and a deep chest taper to lean, athletic legs ending in large padded paws with blunt claws, planted firmly on the ground. A long tail with a dark tufted tip curves behind him. He holds a proud, brave stance, head lifted, chin raised. Behind him stretches a sunlit golden savanna with tall grass, scattered acacia trees and distant rolling hills under a warm sky. - Теневой Зверь: a towering formless Shadow Beast woven from dense coiling smoke and tattered darkness, its body shifting between a hulking wolfish silhouette and drifting vapor. Its surface is deep charcoal-black, edges fraying into wisps and curling tendrils that trail off into the air. Two blazing crimson eyes burn from the shadowed mass of its head, narrow and predatory, with a faint red inner glow. Clawed smoke-limbs taper into long dark talons; its lower body dissolves into a churning smoky base with no distinct feet, hovering just above cracked ground. It looms in a menacing crouch, maw splitting into jagged ember-lit fangs. Behind it stretches a moonlit fairy-tale forest clearing, pale mist drifting between gnarled dark trees under a dim night sky. The SCENE description determines the cast, number of people, actions, setting and framing. Include every character it calls for together in this scene; do not turn it into a solo character portrait.