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A polished studio concept art board — a single composite page that reads as a high-end pre-production pitch deck for an animated short. NOT a vintage pencil sketch, NOT a finished movie frame, but a polished concept page in the visual treatment described below. Layout: TOP HEADER (left): bold modern display typography for the title "The Great Laundry Day", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • STUDIO GHIBLI". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 6 numbered storyboard panels in a 3-column grid. Each panel is a softly rounded card with a thin warm-grey border and a delicate drop shadow (studio pre-prod board look). Inside every panel: a finished miniature of the action — rendered in the visual treatment described below. Top-left of each panel a small bold numbered tab (01, 02, 03…) and bottom-right an "X.Xs" timing tab — both set in clean modern typography (NOT hand-lettering). Panels: Panel 01 (6s): A wide-angle establishing shot of a lush forest floor at sunrise. Golden beams of light pierce through a light morning mist, illuminating mossy tree roots and vibrant green fern... Panel 02 (6s): A medium shot inside a cozy tree-root home. The room features a curved wooden staircase and walls made of polished bark. Mama Mouse stands in the center, gesturing upward with h... Panel 03 (6s): A medium shot in a sun-drenched forest clearing. Papa Mouse is positioned by a chopping block, while Big Brother Mouse is nearby, stacking small logs into a tidy pile. Fresh woo... Panel 04 (6s): A close-up shot of Grandpa Mouse sitting on a smooth grey stone outside the house. He is holding a white handkerchief to his forehead. The background shows blurred summer flower... Panel 05 (3s): A macro shot of a white lily flower in full bloom. A single, large dewdrop is perched precariously on the edge of a petal, reflecting the morning sun like a diamond. The backgro... Panel 06 (3s): A medium shot of a Young Mouse walking through tall blades of grass. He is balancing a wooden basin filled with white linens on his head. The grass towers over him like a forest... RIGHT SIDEBAR (about 22% of page width): character model sheets. For each character below, render 3-4 polished turnaround sketches — front view, three-quarter view, profile, and a dynamic action pose — each in the visual treatment described below. Character name set in crisp modern typography above each set: Mama Mouse — A middle-aged anthropomorphic mouse with soft, velvety grey fur and large, gentle black eyes. She wears a simple, floor-length faded blue... Papa Mouse — A sturdy, broad-shouldered forest mouse with thick brownish fur and a determined, friendly face. He is wearing dark green canvas overalls... Grandpa Mouse — An elderly, small mouse with thinning white fur around his ears and muzzle. He wears tiny, round wire-rimmed spectacles perched on his tw... Big Brother Mouse — A lean, adolescent forest mouse with light brown fur and bright, alert eyes. He wears a simple, short yellow tunic cinched with a piece o... Young Mouse — A very small, round-eared mouse child with fuzzy tan fur and large, curious eyes. He wears a tiny red-and-white striped t-shirt. He looks... BOTTOM STRIP: a horizontal timeline ruler with seconds markings (0, 5, 10, 15… up to total duration), tick marks aligned to the panel durations above — clean vector look, not hand-drawn. Below the ruler, a tidy notes row: STORY / FLOW • ANIMATION • TIMING & RHYTHM • CAMERA — each with 2-3 short polished bullet points in crisp typography (you can invent plausible production notes from the story). VISUAL TREATMENT FOR PANELS AND CHARACTER LINEUP (THIS IS THE CRITICAL PART): hand-painted 2D anime in the Ghibli tradition — soft watercolour backgrounds, simple line work on characters, naturalistic skies, warm sunlit interiors, organic painterly textures, restrained pastel palette with one bold accent colour per panel. OVERALL STYLE: high-end studio mood-board page with the visual treatment above carried through every panel and every character render consistently. Clean modern typography, soft drop shadows on cards, occasional smooth-gradient accents in the margins (sparkles, stars, arrows). NO aged-paper look, NO hand-pencil sketches, NO mixed styles — every miniature on this page is rendered in the same single visual treatment described above. This is a polished pre-production concept page, finished enough to pitch in a studio review meeting.