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Art style: DreamWorks-inspired. 🎬 STAGING CONTRACT. WORLD MAP: A narrow Victorian servant's bedroom, 1885. FOUR named anchors: (1) THE BED — a low iron-and-oak single bed with a sagging horsehair mattress and heavy dark-green wool blanket, roughly two arm-spans long, its head against a plaster wall; (2) THE CANOPY — a faded burgundy cloth canopy hung on four thin posts arching directly OVER the bed like a low ceiling of fabric, no more than an arm's reach above the pillow; (3) THE PILLOW — a lumpy linen bolster at the head end of the bed; (4) THE BEDSIDE STOOL — a small three-legged wooden stool beside the bed carrying a cold unlit brass candlestick and a small mechanical mantel-style clock, its face pale. Above everything the canopy fabric fills the top of the frame. BLOCKING (one character): EVELYN (in maid Alice's body) lies ON the bed at the PILLOW anchor, dead centre of frame, in the FOREGROUND, her body flat and level with the mattress, FACE-UP FACING SCREEN-UP toward the canopy directly above the camera. Her body faces the canopy; her head is nearest camera. She wears a stiff, unfamiliar corset over a plain linen shift — laced cords visible at her waist. CAMERA: directly overhead, top-down, ceiling-height looking straight DOWN at the bed and Evelyn's face, an Extreme Close-Up of her closed eyes and cheek, 50mm. EYELINE: EVELYN — eyes shut at t=0, about to snap open SCREEN-UP toward the canopy/camera. AXIS: the line of action runs head-to-foot along the bed; camera hovers on the overhead side; screen-up is toward the canopy, screen-down is toward her feet. INSTANT: frozen at t=0 — Evelyn's eyelids are still closed, freckled cheek slack against the linen bolster, a single breath held before the gasp; the clock's tiny hands sit near midnight, faint amber only where a low candle-less gloom touches her face. FRAME CONSEQUENCE: because the lens is close and directly above, her face fills the frame corner-to-corner, the burgundy canopy a soft dark halo around the edges, deep blue-black shadow pooling in the corners. SETTING: cramped attic servant's room, cold blue night, plaster walls just visible at frame edges, the heavy canopy fabric sagging. LIGHTING: near-total darkness, a thin cold blue moon-wash from an unseen window grazing one side of her face, deep blue-black shadow swallowing the rest, no warm light yet. MOOD: suffocating, claustrophobic, the stillness before panic. CHARACTER ACTION & EXPRESSION: Evelyn utterly still, eyes closed, on the very edge of a sharp waking gasp, brow faintly tense. COLORS: cold blue-black, faint bone-white skin highlight, muted burgundy canopy. TEXTURES & MATERIALS: coarse linen bolster, worn wool blanket weave, aged plaster, dull brass candlestick, stiff corset boning. DEPTH & LAYERS: foreground her face and pillow; midground the mattress and stool with clock; background the canopy fabric and shadowed plaster. WEATHER & PARTICLES: faint dust motes drifting in the sliver of cold light. MICRO-DETAILS: the pale clock face, tiny reflections on the brass candlestick, individual freckles catching the blue light, a loose thread on the canopy edge, corset lacing biting into her waist. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: Dynamic stylized 3D animation, confident expressive characters, playful attitude, bold facial expressions, cinematic lighting, lively energetic composition. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. WARDROBE LOCK — authoritative. Render each character in EXACTLY this outfit, matching their attached reference image. This OVERRIDES any clothing, fabric, texture or colour word describing a character anywhere else in this prompt — do NOT invent other garments: - Evelyn / Alice: white full-length apron with lace trim, grey-blue long-sleeved dress with white Peter Pan collar and lace chest panel, grey-blue full-length dress skirt (same garment as top), not visible beneath full-length dress, white frilled mob cap with ruffled edge (white lace collar with scalloped edge; lace trim at apron chest; white lace cuffs at wrists)