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A vintage animation pre-production storyboard sheet on aged cream paper, hand-drawn pencil-and-ink illustration style with light watercolour wash. Layout: TOP HEADER (left): bold hand-lettered title "The Shadow Clone Showdown". Below header in smaller print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT" with a small flower or star doodle. TOP HEADER (right): a small "CHARACTER DESIGN & MODEL SHEETS" column heading. CENTER GRID: 4 numbered storyboard panels in a 3-column grid, each panel framed with a thin pencil border, a small numbered tab (01, 02, 03…) in the top-left corner of each panel, a tiny "X.Xs" timing tab in the bottom-right corner. Each panel contains a quick rough sketch of the action described below, with a one-line caption underneath in hand-written capitals. Panels: Panel 01 (3s): A low-angle vertical shot from the perspective of a crowd member holding a smartphone. A raised wooden kabuki stage sits under a bright afternoon sun in a Japanese plaza. In the... Panel 02 (3s): A dynamic close-up from a low angle looking up at the stage. The Ninja lunges forward with a wooden practice sword aimed at Kenji. Kenji is mid-motion, parrying the strike with ... Panel 03 (3s): A medium shot from the crowd's POV. Kenji has leaped back to the edge of the stage, creating distance. He is in the middle of performing a complex hand seal, his fingers interlo... Panel 04 (6s): A wide shot of the entire stage from the crowd's perspective. A massive, billowing cloud of white smoke has erupted in the center of the stage. Through the swirling mist, three ... RIGHT SIDEBAR (about 22% of page width): character model sheets. For each character below, draw 3-4 quick rough sketches showing front view, profile, and a dynamic action pose. Add the character name in small hand-lettering above the sketches. Characters: Kenji — A fit man in his early twenties with messy black hair and an intense gaze. He wears a sleeveless black martial arts gi with intricate gol... The Ninja — A lithe figure completely covered in a dark navy blue shinobi shozoku with matte black armor plating on the shoulders and shins. A tradit... BOTTOM STRIP: a horizontal timeline ruler with seconds markings (0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5… up to total duration), tick marks aligned to the panel durations above. Below the ruler, a small notes row: STORY/FLOW NOTES • ANIMATION NOTES • TIMING & RHYTHM • CAMERA & STAGING — with 2-3 short hand-written bullet points under each (you can invent plausible production notes from the story). OVERALL STYLE: warm aged-paper background with slight stains and edge wear, pencil shading, occasional small doodles in the margins (flowers, arrows, asterisks), feel of a real animator's working sheet. Color palette: cream paper, soft pencil greys, muted blues and browns, occasional accent colour. NO photorealism, NO 3D render look. This is a draft sketch sheet, not a finished frame.