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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 "Lulu. Episode 1: New Home", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • SOFT 3D PIXAR-LIKE ANIMATION, WARM PASTEL COLOR PALETTE, COZY CHILDREN'S STORYBOOK ATMOSPHERE, SMOOTH ROUNDED SHAPES, SHALLOW DEPTH OF FIELD, CINEMATIC WARM LIGHTING". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 15 numbered storyboard panels in a 4-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 (11s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: A small suburban front yard of a storybook world. FOUR named anchors. (1) APRICOT HOUSE — a soft, rounded two-storey cottage painted warm apricot... Panel 02 (16s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: The front doorstep of the apricot cottage in a rounded pastel storybook world. FOUR named anchors. (1) ARCHED FRONT DOOR — a rounded cream-painte... Panel 03 (12s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: The empty interior of the apricot cottage in a rounded pastel storybook world. FIVE named anchors. (1) HOLLOW HALLWAY — a long narrow corridor wi... Panel 04 (11s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: The cottage's interior staircase hall in a rounded pastel storybook world. FIVE named anchors. (1) CURVING STAIRCASE — a gentle honey-wood stairc... Panel 05 (9s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: A sunny room in the cottage with a window seat, rounded pastel storybook world. FIVE named anchors. (1) WINDOWSILL — a broad cream-painted wooden... Panel 06 (12s): 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT — WORLD MAP: A room among moving boxes in the cottage, rounded pastel storybook world. FIVE named anchors. (1) TALL MIRROR — a large full-length mirror in a r... Panel 07 (11s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: CLOSE-UP, eye level. A soft, rounded storybook world — the interior of an empty pastel room in a small apricot-coloured suburban house, seen up close. 🎬 STAG... Panel 08 (9s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: MEDIUM, low angle. INT. ПРИХОЖАЯ — ДЕНЬ. A soft, rounded storybook entrance hall in the small apricot pastel house. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) FRONT ... Panel 09 (21s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: WIDE, eye level. EXT./INT. threshold of the small apricot pastel house, the front door swinging open. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) FRONT DOOR & DOORFRA... Panel 10 (12s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: MEDIUM, eye level. EXT./INT. threshold of the small apricot pastel house, the two kittens at the open door. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) DOORFRAME & TH... Panel 11 (11s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: CLOSE-UP, eye level. EXT./INT. threshold of the small apricot pastel house — tight on Lulu at the emotional turn. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) DOORFRAM... Panel 12 (22s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: EXTREME WIDE, high angle. EXT. yard of the small apricot pastel house at golden hour — a wordless play montage begins. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) SOF... Panel 13 (13s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: WIDE, eye level, upright vertical 9:16 framing (never tilted, never Dutch). 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) A low wooden garden GATE, painted soft cream, ... Panel 14 (5s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: MEDIUM, high angle, upright vertical 9:16 framing (never tilted, never Dutch). 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) A small round-cornered wooden TABLE of warm... Panel 15 (5s): OPENING SHOT SIZE: CLOSE-UP, low angle, upright vertical 9:16 framing (never tilted, never Dutch). 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT: WORLD MAP: (A) The open NOTEBOOK held UP in Lulu's paws, ... 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: Lulu — A very small, round-cheeked kitten around toddler-age energy, with soft cream-colored fur and pink ears shaped like little bows. She has ... Mia — A small kitten with reddish-ginger fur that grows lighter and creamier around her muzzle, with slightly smaller soft blue eyes than a typ... 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): polished pre-production concept render in the "soft 3D Pixar-like animation, warm pastel color palette, cozy children's storybook atmosphere, smooth rounded shapes, shallow depth of field, cinematic warm lighting" visual treatment — apply that style as the dominant aesthetic across every panel and character thumbnail consistently. Keep the studio mood-board feel: crisp typography, soft card shadows, no aged-paper or pencil-sketch look, no mixed styles. 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.