REFERENCE IMAGE TAGS: Use the uploaded @image1 Aldo character reference image as: @AldoRigatoni Use

REFERENCE IMAGE TAGS: Use the uploaded @image1 Aldo character reference image as: @AldoRigatoni Use the uploaded @image2 farmhouse/farm reference image as: @SicilianFarmhouse Maintain exact character consistency from @AldoRigatoni: face, body shape, age, proportions, hair, moustache, clothing, and silhouette. Aldo is dusty, tired, warm, expressive, and late-40s. Use @SicilianFarmhouse to preserve the location design, rustic materials, color palette, architectural style, farmhouse mood, and Sicilian period authenticity. Use this to interpret the interior of the farm house for this clip. STYLE / LOOK: Bright high-end family 3D animated feature style with exaggeration. Warm, comedic, expressive 3D animation. Slight squash-and-stretch, big readable facial expressions, polished cinematic lighting, charming physical comedy, tactile textures, cozy rustic atmosphere. SETTING: Interior farmhouse kitchen, Sicily, 1947, late afternoon. Low ceilings, cool stone floors, rough walls, old wooden beams, simple rustic table, ceramic bowls, worn wooden spoon, copper pots, herbs hanging, soft golden light entering from a small window where a radio (@image3) faces out towards the outside. The house feels old, calm, cool, and protective after the blazing heat outside. ⸻ 15-SECOND SHOT SEQUENCE 0:00–0:03 Interior wide shot of the farmhouse kitchen, focusing on the front door. The room is quiet, cool, and still. Golden light slants in from a small window onto the stone floor. @AldoRigatoni trudges in from outside, dusty and exhausted, moving with heavy feet like every part of his body has complained about the day. His shoulders sag, his moustache droops, and his boots scuff the stone. 0:03–0:05 Medium tracking shot as Aldo crosses the kitchen toward a sturdy old wooden icebox in the corner. The icebox is a period-accurate wooden cabinet with metal lining and a simple latch. Aldo reaches for it with slow, reverent purpose. 0:05–0:07 Close-up on the latch. Aldo opens the icebox. A soft puff of cold mist spills out into the warm kitchen, curling around his tired face. His eyes brighten slightly for the first time. 0:07–0:09 POV inside the icebox: in the coolest corner sits a covered bucket. Aldo reaches in carefully and lifts it out with both hands, treating it like treasure. 0:09–0:10 He sets the covered bucket onto the kitchen table with great care. The table gives a small wooden creak. Aldo pauses as if preparing for a sacred ritual. 0:10–0:11 Close-up as Aldo lifts the lid. Reveal dense, creamy nocciola gelato, perfectly kept, rich hazelnut color, cold and smooth. A tiny curl of icy vapor rises. 0:11–0:13 Aldo grabs a ceramic bowl and a worn wooden spoon from the counter. His tired body suddenly finds purpose. He digs the spoon into the gelato with exaggerated, determined effort. 0:13–0:15 Extreme close-up of an absurdly generous scoop rising from the bucket — not polite, not modest, a heroic scoop. Cut to Aldo’s face: exhausted but deeply satisfied, eyes softening with the silent expression of a man who knows he has earned this. End on the scoop hovering over the bowl like a personal victory. ⸻ CAMERA / EDITING NOTES: Keep the camera intimate and tactile. Use a quiet interior wide shot, slow tracking movement, close-ups of the icebox latch, cold mist, bucket, lid, gelato texture, and Aldo’s face. The pacing should be slower than the outdoor slapstick montage, but still comedic through Aldo’s exaggerated tiredness and the almost sacred treatment of the gelato. CHARACTER PERFORMANCE: @AldoRigatoni should enter completely drained, heavy-footed, dusty, and defeated from farm work. The moment he sees the gelato, his entire body regains emotional life. Treat the gelato like a tiny miracle. MUSIC NOTES: Do NOT add any music into this sequence. Music will be added in at post production. NEGATIVE PROMPT / AVOID: Do not change Aldo’s design, face, clothing, age, proportions, or moustache. Do not make the kitchen modern. No refrigerators, electric appliances, plastic containers, modern packaging, fluorescent lights, phones, modern utensils, microwaves, or stainless-steel commercial kitchen elements. Do not include futuristic spy elements, gelato trucks, spaceships, alarms, New York, or modern city imagery. Keep the scene inside a rustic 1947 Sicilian farmhouse kitchen.