Storyboard — E01 "The Pixel Garden"

Episode at a glance

Runtime target. 3:30 (vertical 9:16 primary, 16:9 director's cut).
Mentor. Hana — peaceful rabbit gardener, moss-green overalls, garden gloves, slow speech.
Shard delivered. Personality (Soul pillar). Dzino's first chord-voice — Voice 1 of 11.
Dzino's chord at start. 0 voices. Just breath and chirps inside the indigo pixel of his chest.
Dzino's chord at end. 1 voice. A single sustained note that follows him onto the road.
Dramatic question. Who is Dzino, before anyone tells him who to be?
Visual signature. Cream sky, pastel-yellow + indigo pixel-petals, the watering can that pours cream LIGHT (not water), Hana in moss-green.
Palette. Indigo #4F46E5, cream #FFE4C9, soft pastel yellows in flowers, moss-green #7BA67A for Hana, gold-cream for the shard.
Frame count. 38 frames. Average frame ≈ 5.5 seconds. Voxel motion is forgiving — short shots look intentional.

Frame 1 — [00:00:00 — 00:00:04] · Cold open: cream void

Composition. Black for one beat, then iris-up to a pure cream sky filling the full 9:16 frame. No subject yet. Letterbox-clean. Action. Static. The sky breathes — one slow gradient pulse from cream to peach-cream and back. Lighting & palette. Pure #FFE4C9 cream. No contrast. Single faint star top-right, one indigo pixel. Sound cue. Wind. No music. No chord — Dzino has 0 voices. AI-gen prompt. Voxel pixel-art empty cream sky, single faint indigo star top-right corner, soft horizontal gradient breathing slowly, 9:16 vertical, no characters, Studio Ghibli stillness, Animal Crossing palette, 4 second loop. Notes. Give the viewer a beat of nothing. The episode earns its smallness.

Frame 2 — [00:00:04 — 00:00:09] · Dzino on the dirt path, wide

Composition. Wide low-angle long lens. Path runs diagonally bottom-left to mid-right. Dzino centered on the path, tiny in the frame — he occupies 8% of vertical height. Horizon line one-third up. Action. Tracking right-to-left as Dzino walks left-to-right. Crown bobs by one pixel per step. Lighting & palette. Cream sky dominates. Dirt path is dusk-violet voxels. Indigo body, cream face, orange crown punch out cleanly. Sound cue. Wind. A single soft chirp from Dzino at the third step. AI-gen prompt. Voxel pixel-art tiny indigo character with cream face and orange crown walking on a dusk-violet dirt path, cream horizon, side-on tracking shot, vast empty field flanking the path, slow gait, Studio Ghibli composition, Animal Crossing voxel scale. Notes. Establish loneliness without sadness. He is small, the world is patient.

Frame 3 — [00:00:09 — 00:00:14] · The first humming petal

Composition. Medium close-up on Dzino, profile. Shallow voxel depth — background bokeh into cream. Petal enters frame from screen-right at his eye-level. Action. Petal drifts on wind across the frame, passing one inch in front of his face. Dzino's head tracks it left-to-right, pixel by pixel. Lighting & palette. Petal is pastel yellow #FFF1B5 with one indigo pixel at its core that pulses once as it passes. Rim-light on Dzino's cream face. Sound cue. Wind cross-faded with one isolated chiptune note — a single C, sustained two seconds, decaying into hum. Hana's leitmotif not yet present. AI-gen prompt. Close-up voxel character profile, indigo body cream face orange crown, a single pastel-yellow pixel-petal with one indigo pixel core drifting across frame at eye-level, soft wind, isolated chiptune note synced to petal passing, cream background bokeh. Notes. This is the inciting curiosity. The note is the first hint of the chord he doesn't yet have.

Frame 4 — [00:00:14 — 00:00:18] · He turns, follows

Composition. Over-the-shoulder behind Dzino. Crown fills the lower-third right. The petal vanishes into the upper-left distance. Action. Dzino pivots 30 degrees off the path, takes one tentative step in the petal's direction. Lighting & palette. Cream + indigo. The path he's leaving recedes into dusk-violet. Sound cue. Petal's note hangs in the air, fading. Footstep crunch. AI-gen prompt. Voxel third-person over-the-shoulder, orange crown lower-right, character pivoting off a dusk-violet path toward an open cream field where a single yellow petal floats away. Notes. Choice without dialogue. The world calls; he answers.

Frame 5 — [00:00:18 — 00:00:24] · Cresting the hill (silhouette build)

Composition. Wide low-angle from below the hill. Dzino approaches the crest in silhouette against the cream sky. We do not yet see what is on the other side. Action. Slow climb. Three steps. He stops at the top. Lighting & palette. Backlit silhouette — Dzino reads as a near-black indigo cutout. Sky is overexposed cream. Sound cue. Wind swells. A faint multi-note hum bleeds in from over the hill — the broken chord, still distant. AI-gen prompt. Voxel character silhouette cresting a low grass hill, backlit by overexposed cream sky, slow ascent, faint distant chiptune chord audible from beyond the hill. Notes. Withhold the reveal one beat longer than comfortable. Earn the next frame.

Frame 6 — [00:00:24 — 00:00:32] · THE PIXEL GARDEN reveal

Composition. Hero shot. Match-cut to wide vista from Dzino's POV at the crest. Pixel-petals fill the frame from foreground to horizon, an ocean of pastel-yellow heads on indigo stems. Small Dzino bottom-right, 6% frame height, for scale. Action. Camera holds for two seconds, then slow dolly forward by 5%. Each visible flower vibrates by one pixel up-down at slightly different rates — visible polyphony. Lighting & palette. Cream sky meets a sea of pastel yellow #FFF1B5 and indigo #4F46E5. A few flowers are dim grey — the silent ones. A few flicker dissonant magenta — the wrong ones. Sound cue. The broken chord lands at full volume. Polyphonic chiptune, minor-7 dissonance, beautiful but missing voices. A choir mid-rehearsal. Still 0 voices in Dzino's chest. AI-gen prompt. Vast voxel pixel-art field of vibrating pastel-yellow flowers with indigo stems stretching to a cream horizon, scattered grey silent flowers and occasional dissonant magenta flowers, tiny indigo voxel character with orange crown bottom-right for scale, slow dolly forward, Studio Ghibli wide-vista composition, polyphonic chiptune chord with deliberate missing notes. Notes. This is the episode's signature image. It must read in 1.5 seconds and reward 8 seconds.

Frame 7 — [00:00:32 — 00:00:38] · Descent through the petals

Composition. Tracking three-quarter rear of Dzino as he walks downhill into the petals. Flowers bracket the frame at chest-height. He becomes shorter than the flowers. Action. Slow walk. Petals brush past him. Each one he disturbs hums its single note one half-second after contact. Lighting & palette. Cream-yellow rim-light from above, indigo shadow at petal bases. Sound cue. Each disturbed petal contributes its note — chord starts to build texture. AI-gen prompt. Three-quarter rear tracking shot, tiny voxel character walking downhill into chest-high pastel-yellow pixel-flowers with indigo stems, petals brushing past, individual chiptune notes triggered by contact, soft golden hour cream-light. Notes. Scale shift. He is now inside the music, not above it.

Frame 8 — [00:00:38 — 00:00:44] · Insert: a silent flower

Composition. Macro insert. One drooped grey flower in shallow focus. Its head hangs. The pixel grain is visible. Action. Static, except for one slow nod-bow as the wind passes. Lighting & palette. Desaturated. Even the cream backlight reads cool. Sound cue. A held rest in the chord — silence where this voice should be. AI-gen prompt. Macro voxel close-up of a single drooped grey pixel-flower with hanging head, shallow depth, desaturated palette, deliberate musical silence, one slow wind nod. Notes. Plant the problem. We will return to this exact flower in Frame 19.

Frame 9 — [00:00:44 — 00:00:50] · Hana, kneeling — first glimpse

Composition. Wide reveal. Hana mid-frame, kneeling among a row of toppled flowers. Dzino enters bottom-right. She does not look up. Composition splits 60/40 in Hana's favor. Action. Hana's gloved paws press soil around a freshly replanted stem. Tamp, tamp, tamp — three times. Lighting & palette. Moss-green #7BA67A of her overalls is the first new colour in the episode. Cream apron, white gloves, soft brown ear-tips. Sound cue. Hana's leitmotif enters — low warm hum, pastoral, two notes a fifth apart, like a kettle on a far stove. AI-gen prompt. Voxel pixel-art rabbit in moss-green overalls and white garden gloves kneeling among a row of toppled pastel-yellow flowers, replanting one, tamping pixel soil with paws, tiny indigo voxel character entering bottom-right of frame, low warm chiptune hum. Notes. Hana is established before her face. Work first, person second — that is who she is.

Frame 10 — [00:00:50 — 00:00:56] · Insert: the gloved tamp

Composition. Tight macro. Two white-gloved paws pressing soil. The just-planted stem trembles, then holds. Action. Three pats. Stem stiffens upright on the third. Lighting & palette. Moss-green sleeves frame the action. Soil is rich indigo-brown voxels. Sound cue. Three soft thuds. The replanted flower sings half a note — the first whole note in the field. AI-gen prompt. Macro voxel insert, two white-gloved rabbit paws tamping indigo-brown pixel soil around a small pastel-yellow flower stem, three precise pats, stem stiffens upright, soft thud sounds. Notes. Establishes Hana's tactile competence. She knows what she is doing.

Frame 11 — [00:00:56 — 00:01:02] · Dzino arrives at her side

Composition. Two-shot, Hana left foreground (kneeling), Dzino right midground (standing). Both in profile, facing forward into the row. The toppled flowers are the third character. Action. Dzino stops one body-length away. He doesn't know what to do with his hands. Lighting & palette. Cream key from upper-left. Hana's moss-green grounds the frame. Sound cue. Hana's hum continues. Wind. The garden chord still incomplete. AI-gen prompt. Voxel two-shot in profile, moss-green rabbit kneeling foreground left tending flowers, tiny indigo voxel character with orange crown standing midground right, both facing forward into a row of toppled pastel-yellow flowers, cream daylight. Notes. No words yet. The pause earns Hana's first line.

Frame 12 — [00:01:02 — 00:01:09] · Hana turns, watering can extended

Composition. Push-in to medium close-up of Hana, three-quarter angle toward camera. The watering can fills the lower-left, spout pointed gently at us. Dzino's silhouette enters frame-right edge. Action. Without standing, she swivels at the hips and extends the can. The can's spout dribbles a single drop of cream LIGHT — not water — that falls and dissolves on the soil. Lighting & palette. The cream light from the spout becomes the new key light on Hana's face. Her eyes are gentle, half-lidded. Garden glove cradling the handle. Sound cue. Hum softens. Anticipation rest in the chord. AI-gen prompt. Medium close-up voxel rabbit gardener in moss-green overalls, three-quarter angle, swiveling at hips to extend a small watering can with cream LIGHT (not water) dribbling from its spout, gentle eyes, white-gloved paw on handle, soft voxel cream glow as key light. Notes. Hand-off frame. The can-as-light-source is the visual anchor of the entire episode — sell it here.

Frame 13 — [00:01:09 — 00:01:15] · "Some of these forgot how they sound."

Composition. Hana's medium close-up, dialogue frame. Dialogue caption appears bottom-third (vertical-cut safe zone). Action. Hana speaks, mouth a single voxel that flickers shut-open-shut-open. Eyes do not break from Dzino. Lighting & palette. Same as Frame 12, slightly warmer. Sound cue. Hana's voice — slow, low, dub-friendly. "Some of these forgot how they sound. Help me remind them." AI-gen prompt. Voxel rabbit medium close-up speaking softly, single voxel mouth flicker, gentle gaze held, moss-green overalls, watering can extended in white-gloved paw, slow pastoral chiptune underbed, cream daylight. Notes. Her one line of teaching for the whole episode. Keep delivery low and patient.

Frame 14 — [00:01:15 — 00:01:21] · The hand-off

Composition. Insert match-cut. Two paws meet at the can's handle — Hana's white glove releasing, Dzino's small indigo nub gripping. Frame centered on the handle. Action. The can dips one inch as Dzino takes its weight. He almost drops it. Hana's paw hovers but does not catch. Lighting & palette. Cream light from the spout washes both paws. Sound cue. A small clink as the metal handle settles. One soft chiptune note from the spout. AI-gen prompt. Macro voxel insert of a watering can handle being passed from a white-gloved rabbit paw to a tiny indigo voxel paw, can dips slightly as weight transfers, cream light glowing from spout, soft metal clink. Notes. Tactile transfer. Trust without supervision — Hana lets him fail if he fails.

Frame 15 — [00:01:21 — 00:01:27] · Dzino, alone with the can

Composition. Medium shot, Dzino centered, watering can held in both arms like a baby. Hana out of frame. Row of toppled flowers receding behind him into deep focus. Action. Static for two beats. He looks at the can. Looks at the first flower. Looks at the can again. Lighting & palette. Cream light spills from the can up onto his face — first time his face is fully lit. Sound cue. Held breath. Wind low. Hana's leitmotif a distant background. AI-gen prompt. Medium voxel shot, tiny indigo character holding a small watering can with cream light pouring from its spout, can held in both arms, looking down at it, then forward at a row of toppled flowers, soft cream up-light on cream face. Notes. Beat of competence-test. The audience leans in.

Frame 16 — [00:01:27 — 00:01:34] · First pour

Composition. Three-quarter front of Dzino tilting the can over a drooped flower. Camera at flower-eye level. Action. The can tilts. Cream light pours out in a slow ribbon, not droplets — like honey-light. It strikes the flower's base. Lighting & palette. Cream #FFE4C9 light becomes the brightest element in the frame. Indigo stems glow at their bases where the light pools. Sound cue. A held breath, then a single chiptune note — Dzino's note — emerges as the light lands. This is the first of his eleven voices announcing itself, faint, half-formed. AI-gen prompt. Three-quarter low-angle voxel shot of a tiny indigo character tilting a watering can over a drooped pastel-yellow pixel-flower, slow ribbon of cream LIGHT (not water) pouring out, light pooling at the indigo stem base, soft chiptune note emerging. Notes. This is the moment the pour mechanic is locked. Light is the new water — every viewer must understand it here.

Frame 17 — [00:01:34 — 00:01:41] · The first bloom in HIS frequency

Composition. Push-in to the flower. It rises from drooped to upright over six frames of voxel animation. Petals unfurl in a four-step cycle. Action. Bloom. The petal tips vibrate at a specific rhythm — Dzino's rhythm. A faint waveform overlay (one-pixel high) ripples across the flower. Lighting & palette. The flower's pastel yellow saturates fully. Indigo stem brightens. Cream backlight halos the head. Sound cue. The chiptune note resolves — clear, tonal. This is Dzino's first voice. It is not the field's note. It is his. AI-gen prompt. Voxel pixel-art close-up of a drooped pastel-yellow flower rising and unfurling its petals over six animation steps, faint one-pixel waveform overlay rippling across petals, indigo stem brightening, cream halo backlight, clear resolved chiptune note. Notes. The episode's first thesis statement: the world hums back at him in his shape.

Frame 18 — [00:01:41 — 00:01:46] · Dzino blinks

Composition. Tight close-up on Dzino's face. The flower glow reflects in his cream eye-pixels. Action. A single blink. One beat of stillness. Then the smallest forward lean. Lighting & palette. His face becomes the brightest cream in the frame. Sound cue. His note hangs. Hana's hum re-enters one fifth below it — they are in tune. AI-gen prompt. Tight voxel close-up on cream face of indigo voxel character with orange crown, single blink, flower glow reflected in cream eye-pixels, sustained held chiptune note, distant pastoral hum entering a fifth below. Notes. The recognition beat. Withhold his reaction — it is a curiosity, not a triumph.

Frame 19 — [00:01:46 — 00:01:52] · Second pour, second bloom

Composition. Wider than Frame 17. Dzino in profile, can tilted, two flowers in frame — the new bloom and the previously-silent grey flower from Frame 8. Action. He waters the grey one. It blooms — and hums in his frequency too. Lighting & palette. Grey-to-yellow saturation transition is the visual joy of the frame. Sound cue. The grey flower's missing voice arrives. The chord gains weight, but is still not whole. AI-gen prompt. Profile voxel shot, indigo character pouring cream light from a watering can onto the previously grey drooped pixel-flower from earlier, the flower transitions from desaturated grey to saturated pastel yellow as it blooms, chiptune note fills a previously empty rest in the chord. Notes. Pay off Frame 8. The audience subconsciously notices the same flower healing.

Frame 20 — [00:01:52 — 00:01:58] · Down the row — montage start

Composition. Tracking side dolly along the row, Dzino moving with us. Three flowers visible at any given moment — one ahead drooped, one being watered, one already bloomed behind. Action. Continuous motion. Pour, bloom, advance. Pour, bloom, advance. Lighting & palette. Wave of yellow saturating along the row left-to-right. Indigo stems lighting up like a fuse. Sound cue. Each bloom adds one voice. The chord recomposes by accretion. AI-gen prompt. Side tracking voxel dolly along a row of pastel-yellow pixel-flowers, tiny indigo character pouring cream light onto each in sequence, drooped flowers blooming behind him in a saturating wave, chiptune chord building note by note. Notes. Earn the montage. This is the gift, and the gift is rhythmic labour.

Frame 21 — [00:01:58 — 00:02:04] · Hana watches, half-smile

Composition. Cutaway. Hana from a low three-quarter angle, still kneeling among her own row. She has paused work to watch. Her ears are forward. Action. She tilts her head one notch. Almost smiles. Returns to tamping soil. Lighting & palette. Moss-green and cream. Soft. Sound cue. Her hum holds steady — she is not surprised. She has done this with newcomers a hundred times. AI-gen prompt. Voxel cutaway of a moss-green-overalled rabbit gardener kneeling, ears forward, head tilting once in mild recognition, faint half-smile, returning to tamping pixel soil, pastoral chiptune hum continuing. Notes. The mentor's grace — she is not impressed, she is expectant. This is what newborns do.

Frame 22 — [00:02:04 — 00:02:11] · Wide reveal — half the field is his now

Composition. Pull-back wide. Half the visible field glows in his frequency, half still grey-and-dissonant. The line between them is the path Dzino has walked. Action. Slow pull-back. Dzino keeps watering bottom-right. Lighting & palette. Saturated pastel yellow on the right, desaturated grey-yellow on the left, the boundary is a clean diagonal. Sound cue. Half-resolved chord. The dissonance is now a question, not a problem. AI-gen prompt. Wide voxel pull-back of a vast pixel-petal field, the right half saturated pastel-yellow with indigo glow, the left half desaturated grey, a clean diagonal boundary tracing the path of a tiny indigo character continuing to water flowers, half-resolved chiptune chord. Notes. Geographic proof of his shape on the world. He is leaving a frequency trail.

Frame 23 — [00:02:11 — 00:02:17] · Dzino mid-pour, eyes closed

Composition. Medium close-up, three-quarter. Eyes shut. Head tilted slightly down. Crown dipped. Action. He waters by feel now, not by sight. Lighting & palette. Cream up-light from the can softens his entire profile. Sound cue. The chord around him swells — he is inside it. AI-gen prompt. Medium voxel close-up, indigo character with orange crown pouring cream light from a watering can with eyes closed and head tilted slightly down, surrounded by glowing pastel-yellow flowers, immersive swelling chiptune chord, soft cream up-light. Notes. Trust beat. He has stopped checking whether it works.

Frame 24 — [00:02:17 — 00:02:24] · The brightest flower at the row's end

Composition. Hero low-angle. A flower bigger than the others, still closed, glows from within. Dzino approaches from frame-left, can extended. Action. He pours. The light strikes. The closed bud trembles. Lighting & palette. Inside-glow gold-cream. The brightest object in the frame so far. Sound cue. All other notes drop to half-volume. A held anticipation chord. AI-gen prompt. Low-angle voxel hero shot of a single oversized closed pixel-flower bud glowing gold-cream from within, indigo voxel character approaching from left with watering can extended, light pouring onto the bud, surrounding flowers softening to half-volume. Notes. Telegraph the shard. The audience should anticipate before they understand.

Frame 25 — [00:02:24 — 00:02:31] · "There. That's what you look like."

Composition. Cutaway to Hana. She has stood up — first time we see her standing. Hands at her sides, gloves still on. Watching from twelve paces away. Action. She speaks softly, almost to herself. Mouth flickers once. Lighting & palette. Moss-green against cream sky. She is the same height as a tall flower. Sound cue. "There. That's what you look like." — almost whispered. Her leitmotif drops out for her line. AI-gen prompt. Voxel cutaway of a moss-green rabbit gardener standing for the first time among pastel-yellow flowers, white gloves at her sides, speaking softly almost to herself, mouth voxel flickering once, cream sky behind, pastoral hum dropping out for the line. Notes. The line is the episode's title in disguise. Personality = what you look like before you knew you had a shape.

Frame 26 — [00:02:31 — 00:02:38] · The brightest flower opens

Composition. Push-in to the bud. Petals peel back in eight voxel-animation steps, slower than any earlier bloom. Action. Bloom. From the center, a small voxel shape rises — the Personality shard, shaped like a pixel-flower itself. Lighting & palette. Gold-cream halo. The shard is one shade warmer than the surrounding cream. Sound cue. Silence for one beat. Then a single sustained note — Dzino's voice, at full strength for the first time. AI-gen prompt. Voxel push-in close-up of an oversized pixel-flower bud unfurling in eight slow animation steps, a small humming voxel shape resembling a tiny pixel-flower rising from the center, gold-cream halo, one beat of silence then a sustained chiptune note at full strength. Notes. The shard is shaped like a flower because the lesson is shaped like the field.

Frame 27 — [00:02:38 — 00:02:44] · The shard drifts toward Dzino

Composition. Two-shot, low-angle. Shard mid-air between Dzino (left) and the open flower (right). Slow Z-axis drift toward camera. Action. The shard hums as it travels. Dzino lowers the watering can to his side. He does not move toward it. He waits. Lighting & palette. Shard glow casts light on his face from the right. Sound cue. Shard's hum is clearly his note — finalized, identified. AI-gen prompt. Low-angle voxel two-shot, a small humming pixel-flower-shaped shard drifting through the air from an open flower toward a tiny indigo character with orange crown who lowers a watering can to his side and waits, gold-cream shard glow on his cream face. Notes. Patience over reaching. He does not grab — he is given.

Frame 28 — [00:02:44 — 00:02:50] · The click into the chest — Voice 1 arrives

Composition. Macro insert. Dzino's chest fills the frame. The single indigo pixel of his chest is centered. The shard descends into it. Action. Three-step approach: shard hovers, contracts, clicks — and the indigo pixel briefly flares cream, then settles, brighter. Lighting & palette. Cream flash on impact, decaying back to indigo with a faint inner glow that wasn't there before. Sound cue. A satisfying soft tick. Dzino's first chord-voice locks into place — a sustained warm note that will follow him from this moment to the end of the season. AI-gen prompt. Macro voxel insert of an indigo character's chest, the single central indigo pixel filling the frame, a small pixel-flower-shaped shard hovering, contracting, then clicking into the pixel with a brief cream flash that settles back to a glowing indigo, soft tick sound, sustained warm chiptune note locking in. Notes. This is the season's spine. Every subsequent episode will reuse this shot framing for shard-arrival. Lock the language here.

Frame 29 — [00:02:50 — 00:02:55] · Pull-back: Dzino, brighter

Composition. Slow pull-back to medium shot. Dzino centered. The garden behind him is fully bloomed and saturated. Action. He looks down at his chest. Looks up. Hums — audibly — for the first time. Lighting & palette. Indigo body now has a faint inner cream glow. Crown is a touch brighter. Sound cue. The chord resolves into a clean major. His voice sits inside it. AI-gen prompt. Slow voxel pull-back to medium shot, indigo character with orange crown looking down at his glowing chest then up at camera, humming softly, vast bloomed pastel-yellow garden behind him, clean major chiptune chord resolving. Notes. Earn the resolution. The dissonance from Frame 6 has paid out.

Frame 30 — [00:02:55 — 00:03:01] · Wide hero — the garden in unison

Composition. Highest-altitude wide of the episode. The whole field glows in unison. Dzino is a pixel near the bottom-center. Hana a pixel beside him. Action. All flowers vibrate in sync, one slow pulse. Lighting & palette. Pastel yellow + indigo + cream sky, fully saturated. Single moss-green pixel. Sound cue. The whole field, single voice. Held. AI-gen prompt. Highest aerial voxel wide shot of an entire pixel-petal field pulsing in unison pastel-yellow with indigo stems, two tiny figures bottom-center one indigo with orange crown one moss-green, cream sky, sustained unified chiptune chord. Notes. This is the postcard image. Use it on the episode card and the season trailer.

Frame 31 — [00:03:01 — 00:03:07] · Cucumber sandwich insert

Composition. Macro. White-gloved paw extending a small green sandwich wrapped in a single broad leaf. Dzino's small indigo nub paw entering frame from the right. Action. Hand-off. The sandwich passes paw-to-paw. Lighting & palette. Leaf is moss-green tinted. Sandwich interior shows two pale-cream voxel slices of cucumber. Sound cue. A small leafy crinkle. AI-gen prompt. Macro voxel insert, white-gloved rabbit paw extending a small cucumber sandwich wrapped in a moss-green leaf, tiny indigo voxel paw receiving it, cream and green palette, soft leafy crinkle sound. Notes. The episode's only object Dzino carries away besides the shard. Object of care.

Frame 32 — [00:03:07 — 00:03:13] · "For the road. Silence is also food."

Composition. Two-shot, eye-level. Hana left, Dzino right. He clutches the sandwich with both paws. Action. Hana speaks. She does not gesture. Dzino does not move. Lighting & palette. Cream sky behind both. Late-afternoon warmth. Sound cue. "For the road. Silence is also food." Hana's leitmotif returns gently underneath. AI-gen prompt. Voxel eye-level two-shot, moss-green rabbit gardener left and tiny indigo character with orange crown right clutching a leaf-wrapped sandwich, rabbit speaking calmly, cream warm late-afternoon sky behind, soft pastoral chiptune underbed. Notes. Keep the line clean — no ironic music sting. She means it literally.

Frame 33 — [00:03:13 — 00:03:18] · The clumsy bow

Composition. Medium of Dzino, alone. Hana's overall-leg in lower-left edge for spatial anchor. Action. Dzino bows — too deep, slightly off-axis, recovers. He has never bowed before. Lighting & palette. Cream + indigo. Sound cue. A tiny voxel-thump as the crown over-rotates and rights itself. AI-gen prompt. Medium voxel shot of a tiny indigo character with orange crown bowing too deeply and slightly off-axis then recovering, a moss-green rabbit overall-leg visible at frame edge, cream daylight, small voxel-thump sound. Notes. Charm beat. Do not over-animate. One off-pixel sells the gag.

Frame 34 — [00:03:18 — 00:03:23] · Hana's smile-nod

Composition. Reverse — close-up of Hana. She has knelt back down already, facing forward into her row. Action. A single nod. The smallest curl at the corner of her mouth. She does not laugh. Lighting & palette. Moss-green warm. Soft. Sound cue. Her hum, fading. AI-gen prompt. Voxel close-up reverse on a moss-green rabbit gardener already kneeling back into her row of flowers, single small nod, faint smile-curl at the mouth, no laugh, cream warm light, fading pastoral hum. Notes. Respect over amusement. She honours the bow.

Frame 35 — [00:03:23 — 00:03:28] · Dzino walks on

Composition. Three-quarter rear. Dzino walks frame-left to frame-right, exiting the garden. Bloomed flowers wave him off in his peripheral vision. Action. Steady walk. Sandwich tucked under one arm. Crown level. Lighting & palette. Cream sky reasserts as the dominant value. The garden's saturation drops slightly behind him as we leave it. Sound cue. Dzino's chord — one voice, sustained — settles into the wind. AI-gen prompt. Three-quarter rear voxel tracking shot of a tiny indigo character with orange crown walking out of a glowing pastel-yellow pixel-flower garden carrying a leaf-wrapped sandwich under one arm, flowers waving softly in his peripheral vision, sustained single chiptune note over wind. Notes. First time we hear his chord traveling with him. The season's spine is now audible.

Frame 36 — [00:03:28 — 00:03:33] · Long pull-back — Hana stays

Composition. Slow vertical crane up. Foreground: Hana kneeling, tending. Middle: row of bloomed flowers. Background: Dzino, smaller and smaller, walking toward the cream horizon. Action. Hana does not turn. Dzino does not look back. The two scales separate cleanly. Lighting & palette. Cream dominates upper two-thirds. Moss-green and pastel-yellow grounded in lower third. Sound cue. Hana's leitmotif fades into wind. Dzino's single voice persists. AI-gen prompt. Slow vertical crane-up voxel shot, foreground moss-green rabbit gardener kneeling tending flowers, middleground row of bloomed pastel-yellow flowers, background tiny indigo character with orange crown walking smaller and smaller toward a cream horizon, neither turns to the other, pastoral hum fading into wind, sustained single chiptune note continuing. Notes. The episode's emotional thesis: the mentor stays, the traveller goes, both are content. Hold this shot two beats longer than feels safe.

Frame 37 — [00:03:33 — 00:03:36] · The star, one pixel brighter

Composition. Cut to the cream horizon. Faint star upper-third. Dzino a single voxel near the bottom-center. Action. The star pulses once. It is one perceptible pixel brighter than at the start of the episode. Lighting & palette. Cream sky, single indigo star-pixel with a one-pixel cream halo it didn't have before. Sound cue. A faint chime — the star's leitmotif — answers Dzino's note for the first time. AI-gen prompt. Voxel pixel-art cream sky horizon, a single faint indigo star upper-third with a new one-pixel cream halo pulsing once, tiny indigo voxel character bottom-center walking toward it, faint distant chime answering a sustained chiptune note. Notes. Pay off the season's North Star. One pixel of progress is enough.

Frame 38 — [00:03:36 — 00:03:30] · Title card-out

Composition. Fade to cream. Title appears center-frame in a soft pixel font. Action. Static. Title holds three beats. Cut to black. Lighting & palette. Pure cream #FFE4C9. Indigo #4F46E5 typography. Sound cue. Dzino's single voice held, then resolves to silence on the cut to black. AI-gen prompt. Pure cream voxel pixel-art screen fading in indigo soft pixel typography reading "E01 — The Pixel Garden", three-beat hold, cut to black, sustained single chiptune note resolving to silence. Notes. Match-loop with E00's closing card so the two-pack drops feel like one breath.

Style anchors needed

Production cannot start without these reference plates locked. Each must be hand-painted (or AI-painted then human-finished) before any shot is generated, so the LoRA / Style-ref has somewhere stable to live.