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Professional cinematic pre-production storyboard sheet, 16:9 landscape sheet, exactly 14 numbered VERTICAL 9:16 panels on a neutral light-grey presentation background — five in the first row, five in the second, four centred in the third. Each panel a fully rendered Pixar-style 3D animation frame: soft rounded shapes, subsurface scattering, warm cinematic global illumination, big readable emotions, not photorealistic. A thin timeline strip runs along the bottom. The only text: a small panel number top-left and a timecode top-right of each frame, English/Latin characters only, sharp and legible. Panels numbered 16 to 29. Two characters, identical to the attached reference sheets, no drift. BARSIK: overweight ginger tabby cat, darker back stripes, M-shaped forehead marking, cream-white chest and belly, four white paw socks, white tail tip, large amber-green eyes, pink nose freckle, thin dark-red collar with a round brass tag. THE OWNER: tired 32-year-old man, short messy dark-brown hair with a cowlick, three-day stubble, small mole under the right eye, faded navy-blue T-shirt, grey sweatpants. 16, 0:15 — Very low wide-lens tracking down a corridor, the cat exploding past camera at full sprint, ears flattened, claws skittering, furniture streaking in motion blur. Mood: manic energy. 17, 0:16 — Wide static living room, the cat motionless mid-ground staring at a completely empty corner, the man behind him following the eyeline to the same empty corner, unsettled. Nothing is in the corner. Mood: eerie. 18, 0:17 — Close-up, a small bright oval of sunlight on the wall, the cat's head snapped toward it, pupils fully dilated, shoulders dropping into a low predatory crouch, dust motes in a hard sunbeam. Mood: the hunt begins. 19, 0:18 — TRUE FIRST-PERSON POV — the camera IS the cat's own eyes at floor level, wide lens, the cat's own body NOT visible except blurred whisker tips at the frame edges. This is the SAME living room from panel 17, but seen through the cat's imagination as a jungle: the wooden chair legs are now enormous tree trunks in the same positions, the grey knitted rug is now dense undergrowth, the potted houseplants are now towering tropical foliage, the beige sofa is now a large mossy boulder — the real apartment's layout and furniture placement stays clearly recognisable underneath the fantasy, it must still read as this apartment, not a real forest. A small bright oval of light moves ahead on the floor. Mood: imagination takes over. 20, 0:19 — Very low tracking, the unchanged cat stalking between two giant tree trunks that are still clearly the legs of the same wooden chairs, belly brushing the undergrowth, giant fronds in the foreground, the sofa-boulder and hazy jungle depth of the same living room behind. Mood: focused stalk. 21, 0:20 — Dynamic low three-quarter, the cat mid-leap fully extended in the air, front legs reaching, claws out, jungle light streaking, correct feline anatomy with no stretching, aimed at an ordinary square beige sofa cushion that is entering the frame — the jungle already starting to peel away around the cushion back to the plain living room. Mood: the pounce. 22, 0:22 — Wide backlit dusk hallway, the front door open, the tired man just home, silhouetted in warm doorway light, wearing a dark-grey open zip hoodie and a black backpack OVER his usual navy-blue T-shirt (outdoor layer, this shot only), the cat sitting bolt upright in the foreground, half-lidded and completely indifferent. Mood: cool detachment. 23, 0:23 — Medium of the man crouching toward camera, warm lamp from screen-right, tired hopeful smile, mouth open mid-question. Mood: tender. 24, 0:23 — Close-up of the cat upright, head pointedly turned away, refusing eye contact, tail curled around his paws. Mood: pride. 25, 0:24 — Wide down the hallway into the apartment, the man walking away from camera into a warmly lit room with his back turned, the cat mid-spring launching after him with tail straight up, the man not seeing it. Mood: secret joy. 26, 0:25 — High wide looking straight down at a night bed, the man squeezed onto the extreme edge with one arm hanging off, the cat sprawled flat across the entire middle taking up almost all of it, cool moonlight across the duvet. Mood: comic imbalance. 27, 0:26 — Medium at mattress level, the half-asleep man's hand pressing against the immovable sprawled cat, fur compressing under his palm, the cat opening one eye to look directly at him. Mood: quiet standoff. 28, 0:27 — Close-up of the cat's face on the duvet, one eye open in cool moonlight, the other closed, calm and faintly long-suffering with affection underneath, mouth completely closed. Mood: resigned love. 29, 0:29 — Medium-wide warm night bedroom, the cat curled tight against the sleeping man's side, the man's arm folded loosely over him, cool moonlight from screen-left and a thin warm strip of light from the hallway. Mood: warmth, full circle. Bottom strip divided into 14 segments of unequal width proportional to shot length, small Latin marks at 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s. Deliberate angle variety, no two consecutive panels sharing a composition, clear foreground / mid-ground / background depth in every panel, and a clear shift from comedy toward warmth across the final four panels. Masterpiece pre-production quality, balanced spacing, characters perfectly consistent with the attached references.