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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines with visible line-weight variation, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat, minimal gradients), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO gloss. Cinematic 16:9 storyboard frame, high emotional readability. Match the FLAT decorative folk-art look of the attached character sheets (The Devil + Kirill + Igor): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. ATTACHMENT ORDER: the 1st sheet is THE DEVIL — copy him exactly: a demon twice a man's height, a long GOAT-LIKE SKULL for a head, tall CURLING RAM HORNS with ring motifs, a mane of black smoke-flame hair, soot-black skin cracked with glowing ember lines, a tattered CRIMSON-AND-BLACK folk-embroidered caftan and cloak hung with chains, CLOVEN HOOVES, a lashing tail. NOT a man, NOT a human face. The 2nd sheet is KIRILL: about eighteen, round young face, heavy straight dark-brown fringe, OCHRE leather armor, DARK-RED scarf-hood, plain village sword. The 3rd sheet is IGOR: about twenty, SHORT light-brown SPIKY hair, BLACK leather armor with red embroidery and a RED SASH, katana. The 4th image is the PREVIOUS FRAME — use it only for light, colors and setting. ONLY THREE CHARACTERS: the Devil, Kirill and Igor. Nobody else. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. CAMERA: a low three-quarter shot from the side, looking up at the demon's head and neck. Kirill large in the near foreground, the demon's head and shoulders in the middle, Igor small in the far background. SCENE: «Neck of Iron»: Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» has leapt up onto a boulder beside the Devil and swings his village sword two-handed with all his strength into the side of the demon's thick soot-black NECK — and the blade RINGS OFF it as if striking an iron pillar: a bright burst of flat ornamental sparks, the sword bouncing back, Kirill's arms jolted and his face wide with disbelief; the neck is untouched, no cut, no blood, not even a scratch. The Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» does not even flinch — his goat skull turned slightly, ember eyes narrowed in contempt, jaws parted as he snarls down at them. In the far background, beyond the demon, Igor «Klinok» is flying backward through the air, thrown by the demon after his attack was parried, his katana still in his hand, his black cloak and red sash whipping. The demon's RIGHT arm hangs extended toward Igor after the shove, holding his heavy demon sabre — broad, deeply curved black-iron blade with a molten ember vein, horned SPLIT CROSSGUARD hilt, NO round tsuba; his LEFT arm hangs at his side, clawed hand empty. Forest clearing, carved stone columns, pines, red dusk sky with a black sun. Mood: even steel is useless against him. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no human demon, no human face on the demon, no beard on the demon, no bare-chested man, no crown, no boots on the demon, no cut on the neck, no wound, no blood, no blade sinking in, no extra arms, no disembodied hands, no twisted anatomy, no long hair on Igor, no broken katana, no katana in the demon's hand, no tsuba on the demon's sword, no fourth character.