Art style: Ghibli / Anime-inspired.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered, a weathered middle-aged polar researcher named Sergei at an Antarctic station. He is a stocky, broad-shouldered man in his fifties with a ruddy wind-burned face, pale blue eyes crinkled with surprise, bushy grey-brown eyebrows and a thick salt-and-pepper beard rimmed with frost. He wears a bulky bright-orange insulated parka with a fur-lined hood pushed back, a knitted navy watch cap, heavy padded snow trousers, thick mittens on a cord, and chunky insulated snow boots crusted with ice. A fogged pair of goggles hangs at his neck and an ID lanyard sways. His stance is braced and off-balance, arms flung up, mouth open in a startled shout as wind buffets him. Behind him, a snowbound research base with red cabins, antennas, and swirling blown snow under a pale sky.
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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:
Soft hand-drawn anime illustration, delicate linework, painterly backgrounds, airy natural light, gentle colors, peaceful cinematic storytelling atmosphere.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
