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Create a hand-painted, illustration-driven character design sheet for a director, art department, and animation team — the kind of board a folk-tale 2D animated feature would develop from. Character name: PROKHOR "THE OMEN" GAIDA — the warrant officer who left. Must feel like a decorative, painterly folk-art pitch board, NOT a photoreal render and NOT a generic model sheet. CORE DIRECTIVE (NON-NEGOTIABLE): No generic layouts. No evenly spaced grids. No symmetry for symmetry's sake. Composition art-directed, intentional, slightly asymmetrical — framed with hand-painted ornamental borders and decorative negative space. Every section placed by hand. CHARACTER IDENTITY: Name: Prokhor Gaida | Alias: "The Omen" (the one who felt trouble coming and drove off before it hit) | Age: late-40s | Height: 178 cm | Build: solid, thickset veteran frame read through a strong flat silhouette, square shoulders, a settled heavy stance of a man who has seen too many years of war | Design Language: modern Russian / Eastern-Slavic contemporary-military folk-art fantasy — Bilibin-esque decorative stylization applied to a MODERN warrant officer, lubok-inspired, decorative over anatomical realism. FACE DESIGN: Structure: broad weathered masculine face from confident simplified shapes, heavy brow, strong nose, jowls softened by age, bold clean outline | Skin: flat painted tone with subtle stylized shading, weathered warm ochre, deep creases as decorative texture | Eyes: expressive, narrowed, deep-set, clean graphic linework, a knowing wary grey-blue — the eyes of a man reading a bad feeling in the air | Hair: greying close-cropped, receding, stylized short strokes; a thick greying moustache as a defining folk feature | Distinct Features: old faded scar on the temple, deep worry-furrow between the brows, a small worn folk icon/medallion at the collar, calloused hands. HEADGEAR: a soft field cap / boonie (he is at the vehicle, not in combat), shown BARE-HEADED in the departure frame so his face and moustache read; a modern Russian combat helmet clipped to his gear as a callout detail. INSIGNIA (STRICT — same on all soldiers): a Russian Federation flag patch (white-blue-red tricolor shoulder patch) on the upper sleeve, rendered as a decorative folk-embroidered patch, stylized not photoreal, consistent on all angles. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE: Core Traits: seasoned intuition, gruff caution, survivor's instinct, buried guilt | Internal Conflict: the unspoken shame of having driven away just before the strike — foresight or abandonment? He carries the question forever | Behavior Patterns: glances over his shoulder, listens to the sky, touches the collar icon, speaks in short clipped orders | Emotional Baseline: heavy watchful unease, a premonition he cannot voice. PERFORMANCE DIRECTION: Caught mid-moment, NOT posing. Micro-expressions through graphic line and shape: a troubled sidelong glance, tightened jaw, a brow knitted with foreboding. Emotion carried by strong readable silhouette and body attitude. Capture transitional emotion — a man turning to leave while something wordless pulls at him. Body Language: grounded, heavy, hesitant at departure | Movement rhythm: deliberate, weighted | Idle behavior: scanning the horizon, hand near the collar icon. WARDROBE (folk-ornamented, MODERN military): Garment 1: worn modern Russian-style field uniform with warrant-officer bearing, straps and pocket edges carrying faded embroidered Slavic folk motifs; RF tricolor flag patch on the shoulder | Garment 2: a weathered field jacket, ornamental woven border along the hem, dust-scuffed | Layering: embroidered-collar undertunic → field uniform → jacket → light harness | Footwear: heavy tactical boots, dust-caked, laces neatly knotted (a careful man) | Accessories: a small folk icon/medallion at the collar, a two-way radio, a set of vehicle keys in hand (he is leaving), combat helmet clipped to gear | Props: an AK-74M as a slung sidearm (STRICT — correct AK-74M silhouette: side-folding polymer stock, 30-round magazine, distinctive muzzle brake) with a folk-patterned decorative grip, worn but cared-for; a UAZ-type military vehicle silhouette behind him as a decorative folk shape — his defining "departure" object. MEDIUM / RENDERING: Hand-painted decorative 2D folk illustration. Bold confident outlines, flat-to-gently-modeled color fills, gouache/tempera-like matte texture, decorative pattern work in cloth, straps and borders, rhythmic stylized detailing. Dust and wear read as painterly decorative texture, NOT rendered grime. Rich but MELANCHOLIC, limited folk palette. No plastic, no 3D shading, no photographic light, no cel-anime gloss. TURNAROUND (STRICT): Full-body front, 3/4, side, back, 3/4 back views, RF flag patch visible where the angle allows. Identical proportions, shape design, silhouette, detail placement. No drift in face, moustache, icon, AK-74M, patch, or gear across any angle. HEAD STUDY: Front (neutral, guarded) | 3/4 (wary foreboding — primary personality) | Profile (structure + temple scar) | Looking Over Shoulder (the premonition) | Looking Down (buried guilt) | Dynamic Angle (barking a last order before leaving). All mid-thought, not posed. KEY ILLUSTRATION / MOOD FRAME: Environment: a checkpoint (KPP) at grey dawn — his vehicle idling, drones as small ornamental shapes in a heavy sky, comrades in the background as decorative silhouettes going about the "normal day" | Light: painted stylized light, cold pale dawn with a faint warm accent | Color Tone: muted melancholic folk palette (ash-grey, slate blue, faded olive-green, dried-ochre) with a single warm accent | Expression: a troubled backward glance, sensing the coming disaster | Composition: intimate iconographic near-lubok framing, ornamental border, negative space used emotionally. LAYOUT: Clean art-directed folk-illustration board on warm neutral parchment-gray ground, subtle hand-painted ornamental framing. Include: height scale, hand-lettered callouts (temple scar, collar icon, AK-74M, RF flag patch, vehicle keys, folk motifs), wardrobe breakdown, margin production notes. Premium auteur folk-tale development board. STYLE: Hand-painted 2D folk-art animation — Slavic / Bilibin / lubok sensibility on a modern soldier, bold decorative outlines, flat matte gouache color, ornamental pattern work, strong emotional silhouettes, limited melancholic palette, storybook-fable atmosphere. Emotionally expressive over photoreal, high emotional readability. Auteur folk-tale animated feature aesthetic. CONSISTENCY RULE (STRICT): Face, proportions, moustache, icon, AK-74M, RF flag patch, gear, ornament, palette, rendering must remain IDENTICAL across all views. No reinterpretation between angles. Ever. OUTPUT: High craft, rich decorative detail, confident linework, expressive but controlled. Development-ready fidelity for a 2D folk-tale animated feature pitch deck.