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Art style: Lo-Fi Anime. A massive, modern industrial factory floor with extremely high ceilings and rows of bright fluorescent lights. The fifty-year-old former street sweeper, still wearing his faded flannel shirt, firmly shakes hands with a younger man wearing a crisp, tailored business suit. Wide shot from a slightly low angle, showing enormous wooden pallets stacked high with bags of recycled materials right behind them. Cold, clinical white and blue factory lighting illuminates the massive space, yet the emotional tone feels deeply warm, proud, and successfully validated. Industrial silvers, clean whites, and the rustic browns of the inventor's clothes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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: 16-bit pixel-art blended with modern webtoon comic illustration in a retro 90s anime aesthetic — crisp thick black outlines, cel-shaded coloring with flat colors and hard dramatic shadows. Gritty urban lo-fi hip-hop vibe. Moody atmospheric lighting with vibrant neon accents (purple, magenta, red) on dark backgrounds. Subtle CRT scanline overlay, glowing elements, expressive sharp anime-influenced features, streetwear clothing. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - Arthur: A fifty-year-old working-class man with a deeply weathered, expressive face, prominent laugh lines, and a thick, messy salt-and-pepper beard. He has intense, warm brown eyes that convey quiet strength and immense resourcefulness. His build is sturdy and broad-shouldered from decades of heavy manual labor. He wears a faded, red-and-black plaid flannel shirt with rolled-up sleeves, revealing calloused, scarred forearms, topped with a worn-out, high-visibility orange safety vest covered in dark grease stains. His messy hair is slightly visible under a dark, sweat-stained baseball cap. The background is a dusty, cluttered workshop with metal tools hanging on a pegboard. The lighting is warm, harsh, and dramatic.