Image - 2026-10-22 17:12

Art style: 3D animated family cartoon. 3D animated family cartoon, vertical 9:16, level upright camera, sunny jungle river, brightness clamped 35% darker. OPENING SLATE (state at 0:00): close-up of Leo, the big sandy lion with a golden mane, his head above the water and ears straight up, looking left. His paws rest on a shallow golden sandbar just under the surface. Detailed wet fur, warm side light from the upper left. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "3D animated family cartoon" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "3D animated family cartoon". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "3D animated family cartoon" idiom, not in any other medium. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Leo: Leo, a young adult male lion with a warm golden-amber coat, a soft cream muzzle, chest and belly, and a full reddish-brown mane framing a broad, kindly face. Large, bright honey-gold eyes with gentle rounded brows, a black button nose, small tufted ears, and whiskers beaded with a few water droplets. Sturdy, friendly build with slightly damp, sleek fur suggesting he just swam, a tufted tail curling behind. He stands confidently on four large padded paws at the edge of a sunlit riverbank, shallow turquoise water rippling around smooth stones and green reeds. Head lifted, warm reassuring smile, one paw raised mid-step as if wading in to help, brave and caring expression. - Finn: the entire figure visible from head to tail-fin, floating upright in the water, correctly oriented and centered. Finn is a small, round-bodied young fish about the size of a hand, with a plump bright-orange body marked by two soft white vertical bands and delicate charcoal edging. He has oversized glossy dark eyes full of worry, a tiny open mouth, small rounded translucent pectoral fins that flutter nervously, and a flowing fan-shaped tail with a faint blue sheen. His scales catch gentle light, giving a smooth wet gloss. He hovers anxiously near a shallow, drying rocky pool rimmed with pebbles and a few wilting reeds, tail curled protectively, body tilted as if trapped in dwindling water, framed by muddy banks and scattered stones on either side. - Croc: on two clawed hind legs at the muddy edge of a sunlit river — Croc, a big hungry crocodile. He has a long broad snout crammed with uneven white teeth poking over his lips, a wide toothy grin, and bulging yellow-green eyes with slit pupils and raised bony brow ridges that give him a sly, scheming look. Scaly olive-green hide with a paler cream belly, knobbly ridged scutes running down his back and powerful tail. Rounded belly, short muscular arms ending in four-fingered clawed hands, thick stubby legs and broad webbed clawed feet planted in the mud. Tongue licking his lips in hungry anticipation. Reeds, lily pads and dragonflies frame the warm riverbank behind him.