Art style: 2D Hand-drawn.
Central master terminal showing a clean database record: Experiment #001 to #742 marked 'FAILED' and 'EXPERIMENT #743 - NOT YET STARTED'. Neo staring at the glowing glass screen in existential dread, his reflection overlapping with the screen data. Friend standing silent in the shadows behind him.
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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:
Classic 2D hand-drawn animation, clean expressive outlines, simplified shapes, soft cel shading, illustrated backgrounds, traditional animated-film aesthetic.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
