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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. 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: OVER KIRILL'S SHOULDER, from behind him, a little low. Three depth layers: Kirill's back and shoulders large in the near foreground at the bottom of the frame; the Devil's huge BACK filling the middle of the frame; Igor far beyond the demon, on the other side, small and facing us. SCENE: «Like Striking Stone»: In the foreground we see Kirill «Tvyordaya Ruka» from behind — his dark-red scarf-hood, ochre armor on his shoulders, both his arms thrust forward holding his village sword two-handed, its point driven against the Devil's back. The tip is STOPPED DEAD at the soot-black hide: a burst of flat ornamental sparks and a ring of folk pattern where it hits, no wound, no blood, the steel bending the light but going nowhere. The Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» fills the middle of the frame SEEN FROM BEHIND — the back of his goat skull, curling ram horns, smoke-flame mane, crimson-and-black cloak with chains, cloven hooves on the stone; he does not turn. His RIGHT arm is raised high above his horns, bringing down his heavy demon sabre — broad, deeply curved black-iron blade with a molten ember vein, horned SPLIT CROSSGUARD hilt, NO round tsuba — toward the far side. There, beyond the demon's shoulder, Igor «Klinok» faces us with both arms whole, holding his katana up two-handed and BLOCKING the falling sabre, sparks flying where they meet. Forest clearing, carved stone columns, pines, red dusk sky with a black sun. Mood: steel means nothing here. 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 muscular bare-chested man, no crown, no feet or boots on the demon, no side-by-side lineup, no wound on the demon, no blood, no