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Art style: DreamWorks-inspired. WORLD MAP of the DIM CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY, night, first frame framed as a CLOSE-UP at EYE LEVEL. Named anchors: (A) a section of dark oak-panelled CORRIDOR WALL against which Evelyn presses her back, cool grey-desaturated wood; (B) the tall LIBRARY DOOR a little way SCREEN-LEFT, a warm thin light-slice leaking from its edge into the grey corridor; (C) a single dim GAS SCONCE on the wall further SCREEN-RIGHT, a small teardrop flame in sooty glass throwing a weak pool; (D) the corridor RECEDING into deep grey-black shadow SCREEN-RIGHT toward an unseen far end; (E) the outfit bearing the stitched name 'Alice' — a small pale detail near her throat that she will notice. BLOCKING: Evelyn stands at anchor A pressed BACK-TO-WALL, CENTRE of frame, FOREGROUND, level, her BODY FACING TOWARD CAMERA / slightly SCREEN-RIGHT, chest heaving, both palms flat to the wall behind her. Her head is turned slightly SCREEN-LEFT toward the library door B she has just fled. She is the only character in frame; the library door B sits SCREEN-LEFT midground, the sconce C SCREEN-RIGHT background, the dark corridor D receding SCREEN-RIGHT. The collar E with the name is at her throat, catching the sconce's weak light. CAMERA: placed AHEAD of Evelyn, EYE LEVEL, straight on, 50mm lens, upright (no cant), framing her head and shoulders tight against the panelled wall, the light-slice from door B just entering SCREEN-LEFT. EYELINE: Evelyn looks SCREEN-LEFT toward the library door, then will drop DOWN to her own collar E. AXIS: the 180-degree line runs along the corridor between the library door (SCREEN-LEFT) and the dark far end (SCREEN-RIGHT); camera stays ahead of Evelyn on the corridor's open side, so the door reads SCREEN-LEFT and the dark escape route SCREEN-RIGHT throughout. RELATIONS ARE PHYSICAL: Evelyn presses AWAY from the library door (backing to the wall) while glancing back TOWARD it — flight plus a backward look, opposed vectors within one body. INSTANT frozen at t=0: Evelyn flat against the wall, palms pressed back, chest caught mid-gasp, eyes cutting SCREEN-LEFT toward the leaking door light. FRAME CONSEQUENCE: the 50mm eye-level close-up fills the frame with Evelyn's gasping face and shoulders against grey oak, the warm door-slice edging SCREEN-LEFT, the sconce glow warming SCREEN-RIGHT. SETTING: a cold, desaturated grey Victorian corridor just outside the warm library — the palette drains here toward grey-black, one warm slice of library light and one weak gas flame the only warmth. LIGHTING: cool desaturated grey ambient, a thin warm light-slice from the library door B SCREEN-LEFT, a weak amber sconce C SCREEN-RIGHT; hard shadow pooling in the corridor depth D; the clock-ticking motif implied in the stillness. MOOD: cornered terror hardening into resolve. CHARACTER ACTION & EXPRESSION: Evelyn gasping, back to the wall, terrified, then steadying — jaw firming as resolve takes hold. COLORS: desaturated grey, oak brown, a warm amber slice, blue-black shadow, a small pale-white collar accent. TEXTURES & MATERIALS: grained oak panelling, sooty sconce glass, plaster wall, the fine white stitching of the collar. DEPTH & LAYERS: foreground — Evelyn against the wall; midground — the library door with its light-slice; background — the receding dark corridor and dim sconce. WEATHER & PARTICLES: dust drifting in the thin door-light and sconce glow, faint breath-mist in the cold air. MICRO-DETAILS: the warm slice catching the edge of the panelling, the stitched name faintly legible on the pale collar, breath fogging, a bead of sweat at the temple. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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)