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Use the LIVING organic owl (the one with natural brown feathers) as the exact geometric source and perform a MATERIAL SWAP ONLY — do not reinvent the skull, do not redraw the bird. GEOMETRY IS PIXEL-LOCKED to the living owl: EYES are the SAME size as the living owl's — noticeably smaller relative to the skull, NOT huge, NOT perfectly round; upper eyelids partially cover the iris from above, giving a calm, appraising, half-lidded gaze. BEAK is the SAME length and prominence as the living owl's — longer and more visible, NOT a small neat comma. Same distance between eye centers, same facial disc width and softness (soft and narrow, not flattened into a mask), same ear tuft length and angle, same head contour. FEATHER SCALE: fine, small, layered plumage exactly matching the living owl's fine barred patterning — thousands of small overlapping feathers, NOT large scale-like petals or shingles. MATERIAL (from the established metal canon): every feather becomes dark matte-graphite carbon-fibre and brushed titanium; each feather has a hard specular highlight along its edge, anisotropic metal sheen; a thin warm copper rim on the outer edge of every feather; subtle machined micro-bevel where feathers overlap. BREAST DOWN: the soft downy bib stays in the same place with the same softness and slight disorder, but is made of hair-thin metallic fibres with a warm brass sheen — brushed wire, not cotton, not organic white fluff; individual wire-hairs catch the light and stray out of alignment. EYES: amber glowing optical lenses with fine brass-and-copper iris diaphragm blades visible around the pupil, small sharp specular catchlight from the window in each eye, wet corneal surface, faint amber glow from inside the iris. POSE & LIFE: head tilted 5-8 degrees off-axis, one ear tuft slightly lower than the other, a few loose metal down fibres out of alignment — controlled imperfection. LIGHTING & ENVIRONMENT: Deakins-style hard side key from a panoramic window plus a cool rim light tracing the head contour; softly blurred city at dawn behind; environment reflections on the metal feathers — window light, city lights, warm platform glow visible in feather edges and lens eyes. NEGATIVE: eyes must NOT be enlarged or cute; beak must NOT shrink; no large scale-like feathers; not simply black or dark plumage — metal must read unmistakably in the highlights; no smooth cast panels, no panel seams, no helmet, no exposed gears or hydraulics, no gold chrome robot look, no transformer style; do not widen or flatten the facial disc; do not shorten the ear tufts. Output a single centered portrait reference card, hyper-detailed, photorealistic, shallow depth of field. If overlaid on the living owl, eye centers and beak length must match one-to-one.