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STYLE: hand-painted 2D Slavic folk-art animation — Bilibin / lubok / Orthodox-icon sensibility. Bold decorative ink outlines with visible line-weight variation, flat matte gouache color fills (poster-flat, minimal gradients), ornamental folk pattern work, strong readable silhouettes. Flat painted, posterized light — NO photoreal 3D shading, NO gloss. Cinematic 16:9 storyboard frame, high emotional readability. Match the FLAT decorative folk-art look of the attached character sheets (Igor + The Devil): same bold ink linework, flat gouache fills, lubok / icon flatness, ornament. Keep every character exactly on-model — same face, hair, proportions, costume, ornament. FULL-BLEED: fill the entire frame edge to edge. NO ornamental border, NO frame, NO margins. TEXT: no text or lettering in the image. SCENE: «The Next Stroke»: Igor «Klinok» had no time to block: the demon's black-iron blade sweeps ACROSS his body in a flat diagonal, and his arm is gone with it. Igor is RIGHT- HANDED: the katana was always in his RIGHT hand. It is that RIGHT arm, the sword arm, that is cut away at the shoulder — his right sleeve hangs torn and EMPTY with red folk ribbons, while his LEFT arm, the off-hand that never held the sword, is still whole and attached, his body wrenched around by the blow, knees buckling, teeth bared in a shout, eyes still on the Devil «The Unmaker of Worlds» above him. The severed RIGHT arm tumbles away with the broken katana hilt still in its fist, one flat dark folk silhouette. Igor may be seen from behind or in three-quarter view, whatever reads best for the blow — his face does not have to be visible, but the empty right sleeve must read clearly in silhouette. Soot-black and ember-red with blood-ochre ribbons. Low angle. Mood: the instant the arm is gone. NEGATIVE: no ornamental frame, no border, no margins, no 3D rendered depth, no photoreal skin, no gloss, no realistic render, no Latin text, no realistic gore, no exposed flesh or bone, no parry, no block, no raised guard, no right arm, no right hand, no second arm, no missing left arm, no left stump, no cut left sleeve, no katana in the demon's hand.