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Shot in the style of Denis Villeneuve, cinematography by Roger Deakins. Live-action photoreal cinematic sci-fi documentary, vertical 9:16, anamorphic-look long lens, shallow depth of field, single motivated light source, volumetric haze, graphite-slate palette with one warm amber accent, no text. PROBE SHOT T2: Extreme macro of a SINGLE owl feather from this cyber-owl character, filling the vertical frame, held mid-transformation. A sharp transition line runs ACROSS the feather: the upper half is living organic feather — warm brown with fine black barring, soft individual barbs and barbules visible as separate hair-fine fibres; the lower half is the metal canon — dark matte-graphite carbon-fibre and brushed titanium barbs, hard specular highlight along each barb edge, thin warm copper rim on the outer edge, anisotropic sheen. CRITICAL: the feather CONTOUR does not change across the line — same silhouette, same barb count and direction, only the material differs. The transition line itself glows faintly amber where organic becomes metal. Wet-looking micro-detail, every barb resolved individually, background completely out of focus. Camera perfectly still composition, night interior with warm platform glow reflecting in the metal half.; Shot in the style of Denis Villeneuve, cinematography by Roger Deakins. Live-action photoreal cinematic sci-fi documentary, vertical 9:16, anamorphic-look long lens, shallow depth of field, single motivated light source, volumetric haze, graphite-slate palette with one warm amber accent, no text. PROBE SHOT — Percy tight close-up from the master: the SAME cyber-owl character with geometry pixel-locked to this source image — modest eye size with upper eyelids partially covering the iris (calm half-lidded appraising gaze), long prominent beak, narrow soft facial disc, ear tufts of natural length with one slightly lower, head tilted 5-8 degrees off-axis. Tight vertical close-up on the face: beak edge and eye region razor sharp. MATERIAL CANON at maximum micro-detail: thousands of fine small metallic micro-feathers of dark matte-graphite carbon-fibre and brushed titanium, hard specular highlight along each feather edge, thin warm copper rim on every feather's outer edge, machined micro-bevel where feathers overlap, hair-thin brass wire down fibres straying out of alignment; amber optical lens eyes with fine brass iris diaphragm blades around the pupil, small sharp window catchlight, wet corneal surface, faint inner amber glow. Deakins lighting: hard side key from panoramic window, cool rim light on head contour, softly blurred city at dawn behind, environment reflections in the feather edges and lens eyes. NEGATIVE: no enlarged eyes, no shrunken beak, no large scale-feathers, no smooth panels, no robot look, plumage must read as metal in the highlights.