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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 (Artyom + Lastochka + Igor + Misha + Kirill): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. SCENE: «The Long Road»: An autumn road through open meadows and stylized folk hills. Artyom «Serdtse» in brown leather armor and a moss-green cloak walks hand in hand with Lastochka «the Swallow» in her cream embroidered shirt and dark-red sarafan, ash-blonde braid with a woven ribbon, the two of them looking at each other. Artyom carries a NAGINATA, a long curved-bladed polearm, slung across his back. Behind them Misha «The Eye» in grey-blue armor and clear-framed glasses and Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» in ochre armor with a dark-red scarf-hood grin and nudge each other, teasing. Ahead Igor «Klinok» in black leather armor leads the way, the katana at his left hip, never on his back. Small lubok vignettes along the roadside show a fight with a boar-like forest monster and herb gathering; the season shifts from summer green to autumn gold. Meadow green, autumn ochre and warm red with a cool river-blue accent. Mood: friendship, growing skill, time passing. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text.