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Art style: 3D Pixar. At the edge of the desert just beyond the small town, compose a vertical 9:16 medium-wide shot with a slight low angle so the unfolding map, the characters, and the endless horizon stack upward powerfully in the frame. This is a direct continuation at golden sunset: the last adobe buildings and dusty street remain behind them, while the foreground transitions from compacted town dirt into loose wind-rippled sand. The setting should feel like a threshold between safety and mystery. Riko stands confidently in the foreground, unfolding the ancient parchment map with both paws in a dramatic, eager motion, his face glowing with expectation and delight as if this is exactly the moment he has always wanted. Beside him, Dave stands tense and reluctant, shoulders tight, gaze flicking from the strange map to the infinite desert ahead with visible dread and disbelief. The map itself is a major visual element: old, brittle, dust-coated, creased from age, marked with mysterious symbols and routes, and now beginning to glow faintly with warm golden light from one specific symbol. The environment includes shallow dunes, desert scrub nearly swallowed by sand, and atmospheric haze softening the far distance. Behind the characters, old adobe walls, a wooden signpost, and the fading town street maintain visual continuity with the previous chase. The mood is wonder mixed with unease, an adventurous mystery punctuated by comedy through the contrast between Riko’s joy and Dave’s discomfort. Lighting comes from the low setting sun, casting long shadows, warm amber edge light, and soft volumetric haze across the sand. Dominant colors are sunlit gold, amber, dusty orange, parchment tan, weathered brown, and muted blue-gray in distant shadow. Texture details should emphasize cracked parchment fibers, embossed ancient symbols, gritty sand, weathered adobe, splintered wood, and tiny pebbled ridges shaped by the wind. Use clear depth layers: foreground grains of sand and map edge, midground characters and signpost, background town structures and endless dunes. Weather and particles include a light desert breeze, drifting dust, and a subtle magical shimmer around the glowing symbol. Add micro-details like tiny sparks of light crawling along one route line, sand catching in map folds, faint footprints behind the characters, and a slight curl at the parchment corners reacting to the breeze. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: Pixar-style 3D computer animation (Pixar / Disney feature-film look) — fully volumetric 3D rendering with rounded dimensional forms, soft subsurface-scattering skin, physically based materials, soft global illumination, warm cinematic key light, gentle depth of field, vibrant family-friendly colours. CRITICAL: EVERY element — characters, foliage, trees, animals, water, sky, props and the entire environment — must be rendered as polished 3D CGI with real depth and form. This is NOT flat 2D illustration, NOT a watercolour or storybook painting, NOT cel-shaded anime. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.