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Art style: Tim Burton gothic stop-motion animation, whimsical dark fantasy, exaggerated huge expressive eyes, but brighter and more vivid color palette, soft cinematic lighting. Medium-wide static shot of a crushed cardboard box among rubbish on a junkyard trash heap, its inside dark and empty, lit by a violet dusk sky; nobody visible. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Tim Burton gothic stop-motion animation, whimsical dark fantasy, exaggerated huge expressive eyes, but brighter and more vivid color palette, soft cinematic lighting" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Tim Burton gothic stop-motion animation, whimsical dark fantasy, exaggerated huge expressive eyes, but brighter and more vivid color palette, soft cinematic lighting". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Tim Burton gothic stop-motion animation, whimsical dark fantasy, exaggerated huge expressive eyes, but brighter and more vivid color palette, soft cinematic lighting" idiom, not in any other medium. 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: - BLACK KITTEN: Stop-motion puppet kitten, spindly thin legs, oversized pointed ears, tufted scruffy matte-black fur with visible felt texture, enormous luminous impossibly blue round eyes with bright highlights, tiny pink nose, thin wiry tail, no collar, no items. Gothic whimsical Burton-style proportions, side-lit to show the fur tufts, small and fragile, caught mid-movement. - VOLUNTEER: Stop-motion puppet adult woman, round-shouldered and sturdy, red hair in a high bun, freckled textured skin, big kind green eyes, cream knit sweater with rolled sleeves, mustard-yellow canvas apron with a front pocket holding a black smartphone. Gentle long-fingered hands, Burton-style proportions, warm side lighting, caught mid-reach.