Style: Painterly gouache animated short film. Every frame looks hand-painted — soft visible gouache

Style: Painterly gouache animated short film. Every frame looks hand-painted — soft visible gouache brushstrokes, no hard outlines, forms defined by light and color rather than linework, gentle color gradients, painterly detail falloff, warm storybook aesthetic, Pixar Sparkshorts / animation pitch bible quality. NOT photorealistic, NOT 3D render, NOT cel-shaded, NOT flat vector. Color: 60:30:10 — deep teal and forest green shadows dominant / warm cream and amber daylight secondary / burnt orange and mustard accents. Desaturated palette, subtle grain, gentle halation on sunbeams. Camera: behaves like a physical cine camera inside a painted world — inertia, momentum, natural motion blur on fast moves. Physics: gravity and inertia respected — wingbeats displace air, feathers ruffle, real weight on the strike, correct soft contact shadows. Composition: painterly depth layering — soft blurred foreground foliage, sharp mid subject, hazy luminous background. Continuity: characters identical to their reference sheets across the entire shot. No identity drift. Technical: 24fps smooth motion, 16:9. No jitter. Audio: environmental SFX only — wingbeats, forest ambience, one sharp beak snap. No music. No subtitles. SUBJECT — @butterfly (matches input 100%): amber-orange upper wings with cream border spots, teal-green lower wings, amber-tipped antennae. @parrot (matches input 100%): teal-green body, mustard-gold chest, burnt orange wing flashes, charcoal curved beak, pale-gold eye with cream eye-ring. Emotional beat: playful freedom cut short by a sudden wild strike — startling but storybook, not cruel. WB warm daylight ~5200K. ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE. LOCATION — a lush sunlit painted forest, STYLE REFERENCE ONLY, not a fixed keyframe. Towering tree trunks in soft teal-green washes, dense canopy with dappled amber light shafts breaking through, drifting luminous pollen. The model freely extends the forest in every direction; the subjects race through deep space — NOT pinned to any input frame. ACTION — one single unbroken camera move from first frame to last: chase → strike → bullet-time. Absolutely no cuts, no edits, no transitions. BEAT 1 (0:00–0:04) — camera flies directly behind @butterfly as it flutters fast and erratically through the forest — weaving between trunks, dipping under a low branch, jinking left through a bright shaft of amber light, wings flashing orange and teal. Lively, kinetic, joyful. Brushy motion blur streaks the passing foliage. BEAT 2 (0:04–0:05) — without any cut, @parrot bursts in from screen-left in a fast diagonal dive and snatches @butterfly out of the air, its charcoal beak biting down and clamping onto the outer edge of one amber wing. The camera sweeps with the strike in the same fluid move. BEAT 3 (0:05–0:10) — still unbroken, the camera drives in on the moment of capture and time collapses into bullet-time: near-frozen extreme macro of the beak's grip pinching the wing, the wing membrane bending and creasing, shimmering iridescent scale-powder scattering off the pinched edge and hanging suspended motionless in mid-air as tiny painted dabs of light. The camera orbits slowly around the frozen instant — wing veins razor-sharp in painterly detail, @parrot's pale-gold eye and beak texture crisp, @butterfly caught mid-flutter. Hold the orbit to the final frame. CAMERA — one continuous move throughout. BEAT 1: low chase cam tight behind the butterfly, slightly below its flight line looking up into the canopy light, whipping and banking with every jink — motivation: put the audience on its tail. BEAT 2: the same camera whip-sweeps laterally with the parrot's dive, momentum carried through the strike — motivation: the world intrudes violently into the chase. BEAT 3: the move decelerates into a slow macro orbit around the bite, roughly 120° of arc, ending slightly above and side-on to the parrot's eye — motivation: turn violence into a frozen painted still-life. STYLE — Dominant: teal/forest-green painted forest depths 60% / Secondary: warm cream-amber sunlight shafts and glowing haze 30% / Accent: the butterfly's burnt-orange wings and the parrot's gold eye 10%. WB ~5200K, sun high behind canopy, backlit haze, dappled light raking across the action. CONSTRAINTS — 16:9. ONE SINGLE CONTINUOUS UNBROKEN SHOT — no cuts, no transitions, no camera teleports. SPEED-RAMP only once: full speed 0:00–0:05, then ramp down into near-frozen bullet-time 0:05–0:10; never ramp back up. Strong painterly motion blur during the chase resolving into crisp frozen detail in the macro. @butterfly stays small real-insect scale, @parrot medium parrot scale — NOT oversized. The beak clamps ONLY the wing edge — no gore, no tearing, wing intact. Characters match reference sheets exactly, no identity drift. NO eye glow. No text, no watermark.