Painterly animated short film sequence, digital gouache style in motion, soft visible brushstrokes,

Painterly animated short film sequence, digital gouache style in motion, soft visible brushstrokes, no hard outlines — forms defined by light and color, painterly detail falloff, warm storybook aesthetic, Pixar Sparkshorts pitch-art quality. Palette: deep teal and forest green shadows, warm cream and amber highlights, muted mustard and burnt orange accents, desaturated, subtle grain, gentle halation. 16:9. Real weight and gravity. No dialogue. REFERENCE @img1 = the man only: red hair, full red beard, forest-green hooded cape, brown leather jacket, cream shirt, mustard-strap harness, tall dark boots. @img2 = environment only: colossal medieval stone wall, timber town with burnt orange rooftops at its base, empty open ground below, small wooden bungee platform on the top edge, scale, haze, warm daylight. @img3 = creature only: gigantic quadrupedal humanoid giant, oversized head, enormous ear-to-ear mouth of human-like teeth, pale teal-gray muscular skin, small amber eyes, long limbs, crawling anatomy. Do not mix roles. Same man, wall, harness, cord, giant throughout. All elements share the same gouache rendering — no style drift. CAMERA: One seamless shot. 0–3.2s: medium-wide beside the platform, showing the man, two staff, and the drop. At 3.2s, as he dives, smoothly pull back, rise, and move away from the wall into a wide elevated view. No cut. 7.2–8s: rise higher and tilt down into a steep overhead view. 8–15s: hold this overhead view. No orbiting, zooms, slow motion, freeze, or fade. ACTION: 0–3.2s: On the platform atop the wall, two staff check the man's harness and cord. Wind moves his cape and beard. He looks down, tense, breathes deep, leans forward, commits. 3.2–7.4s: Head-first bungee dive, arms opening, cape fluttering upward. He falls fast along the wall face; the cord extends freely then gains tension. Body stable, no spinning. The giant stays invisible — no silhouette, dust, or movement anywhere on the ground. 7.4–9s: He reaches the lowest point extremely close above the empty ground, never touching. The cord hits max extension, sharply slows him; his body stretches then rebounds. Legs stay extended, body elongated — no curling. Ground empty and still: false relief. 9–10s: The cord pulls him up, legs hanging down. The ground trembles — painterly dust rises, stones vibrate, heavy pounding footsteps grow rapidly louder from beyond the wall's curve. Giant still hidden. He freezes in fear. Deep rhythmic thuds under wind and cord strain. 10–13.1s: From the same overhead view, @img3 bursts into frame at full sprint on all fours, crosses the open ground with horrifying speed, plants all four limbs and launches vertically upward in one heavy leap. Its gaping mouth rises straight toward the man, jaws enlarging in frame. His legs stay extended above the mouth; only as the jaws surge around his lower legs does the rebound pull him slightly higher and he tucks both knees to his chest. The teeth pass just beneath his boot soles; jaws snap shut immediately below his curled feet — smallest visible gap, caused by the rebound, not a dodge. No contact. One short scream. 13.1–15s: The giant crashes back onto all fours — huge weighted impact, blooming painterly dust, debris, shockwave rings in gouache texture. No floating. The man swings violently above it on the unbroken cord, knees curled, breathing hard. End dangling above settling amber-lit dust, alive, terrified. AUDIO: No dialogue/music. Wind, buckles, cord strain, accelerating footsteps, tremor rumble, explosive leap, guttural roar, jaw snap, one scream, panicked breathing, heavy landing. NEGATIVE: no photorealism, 3D CGI, hard outlines, cel shading, style drift; no creature reveal before 9s; no bite contact, blood, gore; no snapped or duplicated cord; no ground contact by the man; no curled pose before the attack; no wall-climbing or flying creature; no spinning, teleporting, floating, deformation; no cuts, slow motion, freeze, fade.

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