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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 sheet (Korshun): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep Korshun exactly on-model (build, costume, ornament, dark hair). No reinterpretation. 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 (critical — HIGH ANGLE LOOKING DOWN INTO THE TRENCH): The camera is ABOVE the trench, looking DOWN into it from over the top / over the parapet — a high overhead angle, almost a top-down bird's-eye view straight down into the narrow dug trench. We look DOWN at Korshun lying on the trench floor far below us. This is a proper trench seen from above: a NARROW earthen channel cut into the ground, with the two earthen walls / timber-log revetment lining both sides of the channel and the muddy floor at the bottom. The trench reads correctly as a deep narrow ditch in the earth, NOT a room with a missing front wall, NOT a side cutaway. We are looking straight down over the edge into the hole. WEAPON (critical — draw the AK correctly): ONE single anatomically CORRECT AK-pattern rifle, built right, in this exact order along ONE straight line: a solid shoulder STOCK at the rear, then the receiver with the pistol grip, then ONE curved banana MAGAZINE pointing down, then ONE straight BARREL with a front sight extending forward. Normal realistic length, fallen from his hand into the mud beside him on the trench floor, whole and undamaged. ONE clean intact rifle — exactly one barrel, one magazine, one stock, all connected as a single solid weapon. Do NOT bend, warp, melt, twist, snap or break the gun. Do NOT merge it with his arm, body or scenery. Do NOT float rifle parts. Keep it clearly a recognisable AK. SIDES (critical): Korshun is OUR RUSSIAN soldier — Slavic FOLK-ORNAMENTED kit with a CLEAR RUSSIAN-FLAG SHOULDER PATCH on his upper arm: a rectangular white-blue-red horizontal tricolour flag patch (white top, blue middle, red bottom) with a decorative folk-ornament band at its base, exactly like previous frames — clearly visible. He is the ONLY figure in the trench. NO blue-and-yellow on Korshun. CONTINUITY (Korshun — keep ALL of these): He has NO helmet — head BARE, dark hair and beard. WOUNDED: a SINGLE small through-and-through CHEST wound with a modest ochre-blood stain; body WHOLE and intact, NO large hole. Ochre-blood runs from his MOUTH. Keep all consistent. POSE / MOMENT (this scene — he LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS and FALLS): Seen from directly ABOVE, Korshun's last strength gives out — he BLACKS OUT and has just COLLAPSED down onto the wet muddy floor at the bottom of the trench. He lies sprawled on his back / half on his side in the mud, body fully LIMP, arms flopped out into the muck, one leg bent, head lolled to the side against the timber-log wall. His EYES ARE CLOSED / SHUT, face slack and peaceful, unconscious. His rifle has slipped from his hand and lies in the mud beside him. This is the moment he loses consciousness and drops to the trench floor — viewed from straight overhead. SETTING: A DUG-IN defensive position seen from ABOVE — a NARROW trench cut into the earth, walls shored with rough TIMBER LOGS / beams and sandbags on both sides, wet churned MUD on the floor, scattered spent brass, drifting smoke, craters in the ground around the trench edges. NO buildings on fire. ENEMY IN RETREAT (distant, beyond the trench edge): Past the top edge of the trench, out on the open ground above/beyond, the ENEMY are RETREATING — MODERN soldiers (tactical helmets, body armour, multicam / digital-pixel camo, BLUE-AND-YELLOW arm bands) turning and fleeing away toward the far horizon, backs turned, withdrawing in disarray with many of their dead strewn across the smoking cratered ground — a beaten enemy in full retreat. This is only distant background beyond the trench edge; Korshun himself is unconscious in the trench below and no longer watching. SCENE: The final collapse, seen from above. Looking straight DOWN into the narrow muddy trench, we see Korshun sprawled unconscious on the trench floor — bare-headed, dark hair, folk-ornamented kit, WHITE-BLUE-RED RUSSIAN-FLAG shoulder patch, the ochre-blood chest stain, ochre-blood at his mouth, body whole, mud-smeared — body fully limp, arms flopped in the muck, head lolled to the side, EYES SHUT, face slack and at peace, his single intact AK fallen in the mud beside him. The timber-log walls of the trench frame him on both sides. Far beyond the trench edge, out on the open smoking cratered field, the BLUE-AND-YELLOW- marked enemy RETREAT in disarray, backs turned, fleeing with many dead scattered — a beaten enemy. Ash-grey, smoke-black, ember-red, blood-ochre palette; soft fading light down into the trench, cold smoky distance on the retreating enemy. High overhead angle looking down, heavy sense of a man who has given everything and finally dropped, flat painted light. Mood: total collapse and hard-won peace — a wounded fighter passing out into the mud of his trench as the beaten enemy flees. NEGATIVE: no side cutaway of the trench, no trench with a missing front wall, no trench that looks like a room, no cross-section view, no eye-level side view of the trench, no low side angle, no open eyes on Korshun, no aware watching eyes, no conscious alert face, no Korshun awake, no Korshun watching, no Korshun standing, no Korshun sitting up, no energetic pose, no enemy advancing, no enemy charging, no enemy in the trench, no blue-and-yellow soldier in the trench, no enemy near Korshun, no artillery landing on Korshun, no explosion in the trench, no clean dry ground, no telephone, no smartphone, no broken gun, no broken AK, no snapped rifle, no shattered rifle, no bent weapon, no warped gun, no melted gun, no twisted barrel, no barrel bent at an angle, no curved barrel, no barrel in the wrong place, no double barrels, no two magazines, no detached or floating magazine, no floating detached rifle parts, no gun split in pieces, no stock detached, no backwards stock, no rifle merged into his arm or body, no extra gun, no second rifle, no half a gun, no distorted firearm, no anatomically wrong firearm, no missing Russian-flag patch, no missing shoulder flag, no bare unmarked shoulder on Korshun, no wrong-colour flag on Korshun, no blue-and-yellow flag on Korshun, no blue-and-yellow on Korshun's shoulder, no Russian flag on the far enemy, no second friendly fighter, no ally beside him, no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no drones, no text on the patches, no lettering, no open bare empty field with no trench, no burning checkpoint, no burning building, no buildings, no helmet on Korshun, no headgear on Korshun, no second Korshun, no twin, no duplicate hero, no missing chest wound, no huge bloody hole, no massed horde, no body torn apart, no dismemberment, no exposed insides, no gore, no off-model Korshun, no medieval soldiers, no knights, no bogatyr, no spears, no shields, no swords, no chainmail or plate armour, no bows, no third arm, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text.