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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 "TITLE: PIRATES INVADE FRANKFURT 🏴‍☠️🦜 Duration: 30 seconds Format: Vertical 9:16, ultra-realistic...", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • CINEMATIC REALISTIC". 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 (4s): Bright day on the River Main, a dense grey smoke wall on the water, Frankfurt glass skyline and the Eurotower behind; no ship visible yet. Panel 02 (6s): Galleon deck in daylight with confetti drifting. Blackbeard stands by the rail holding his cutlass lowered in his right hand. Rico is perched on a beam at left, and Jack and Bor... Panel 03 (5s): Stone riverbank quay below glass towers in daylight with the galleon moored alongside. Boris stands on the ship's railing hugging the closed brass-bound chest, while Blackbeard ... Panel 04 (4s): Same quay, matching the scene 3 end: Jack kneels at the open chest (sausage and ticket inside). Blackbeard stands behind him with the cutlass in his right hand, and Boris sits a... Panel 05 (4s): Bright downtown boulevard sidewalk with pedestrians. One lime-green e-scooter is moving: Blackbeard grips the handlebars with the cutlass tucked in his sash, Jack clings to his ... Panel 06 (8s): Half-timbered apple-wine tavern in daylight, with three empty wooden garden chairs out front. The scooter rolls in from the left carrying Blackbeard, Jack and Boris (chest hugge... 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: Blackbeard — Broad-shouldered weathered pirate captain, thick braided black beard, sun-creased textured skin, heavy dark brows, black tricorn hat, lon... Rico — Single large green parrot with bright red head, yellow wing bands, curved black beak, sharp dark eyes, slightly ruffled real feather text... Jack — Wiry lanky pirate, narrow stubbled face with textured skin, messy brown hair under a blue bandana, mustard-yellow horizontally striped sh... Boris — Huge heavyset pirate, shaved bald head, round face with thick red beard, textured skin, white sleeveless shirt, brown leather vest, wide ... 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): photorealistic cinematic still frame, anamorphic 2.39:1 framing inside each panel, naturalistic skin and fabric, hard key + soft fill lighting, shallow depth of field, slight film grain, muted teal-and-orange grade. 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.