Create 2 separate reference card portraits of the SAME Great Horned Owl character (Variation 1 = living owl, Variation 2 = cyber-metal owl), keeping all established canon from the reference image, but fix the "dead taxidermy" look with four mandatory corrections applied to BOTH cards: LIGHTING (Roger Deakins style, replaces flat frontal light): one hard directional side key light from a large panoramic window, plus a cool blueish rim/backlight tracing the contour of the head and ear tufts, separating the owl from the background. Background is no longer pure black: a softly blurred panoramic window with a city at dawn and a warm column of platform light. LIVING PRESENCE (controlled imperfection): head tilted 5-8 degrees off-axis, one ear tuft slightly lower than the other, a few loose down feathers out of alignment, asymmetric feather ruffle. Not perfectly symmetrical, not perfectly groomed. EYES: small sharp specular catchlight from the window in each eye, wet corneal surface, faint amber glow from inside the iris — on BOTH the living owl and the cyber owl (the mechanical lens eye must have the same window catchlight and moist-looking surface, keeping its fine brass iris diaphragm blades around the pupil). Variation 1 (LIVING OWL): fully organic Great Horned Owl, soft layered realistic feathers in warm browns, cream, ochre with black barring, full facial disc of concentric feather rings, two soft ear tufts, natural dark curved beak. Variation 2 (CYBER OWL): the EXACT same owl in metal — same facial disc width and softness, same ear tuft length and angle, same distance between eyes, same beak shape. Every feather an individual overlapping metallic micro-feather of dark matte-graphite carbon-fibre and brushed titanium; each feather has a hard specular highlight along its edge, anisotropic metal sheen; thin warm copper rim on the outer edge of every feather; subtle machined micro-bevel where feathers overlap. CRITICAL: environment reflections on the metal feathers — window light, city lights at dawn, the warm platform glow visible in the feather edges and in the lens eyes. NEGATIVE: not simply black or dark plumage — the material must read unmistakably as metal in the highlights; no smooth cast panels, no helmet, no exposed gears, no gold chrome robot, no transformer style. Cinematic, hyper-detailed, photorealistic, shallow depth of field. If the two silhouettes were overlaid they would match one-to-one.
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