E02 — The Binary Forest — Storyboard

Episode at a glance

Runtime: 3:30 (210s) · Frames: 36 · Mentor: Kiko (chaotic cat scientist, lab coat of pixels, goggles on forehead) · Shard: Interests (Mind) · Logline: What you lean toward is who you are becoming.

Arc. Curiosity → startle (frozen apple) → bemusement (Kiko upside-down) → quiet self-discovery (eight leans) → harmonic completion (shard, two-voice chord) → onward.

Sonic spine. Wind + binary whisper underneath everything · Kiko's leitmotif (fast staccato, clock at 1.5x) · eight chime-events on the leans · half a second of dissonance when Voice 2 arrives, resolving into thirds · two-voice chord sustains under exit.

Color spine. Indigo #4F46E5 + cream #FFE4C9 constant. Glitch-tone teal/cyan #5EEAD4 for binary digits. Gold #F5C268 only for lean-sparks and shard. Lab-coat white #F8F4EC only on Kiko. Red #E25A53 only on the frozen apple.

Pacing. Frames 1–4 breathe long (4–6s). Frames 12–25 (eight trees) cut tight (3–4s) to feel like a montage of small decisions. Frames 32–36 breathe long again so the chord can land.

Frame-by-frame

Act I — Entrance (0:00–0:22)

Frame 1 — Forest threshold (0:00–0:06)

Composition. Wide low-angle. Dzino tiny lower-third right; forest arches over him from the left.
Action. One step forward; he pauses, tilts his crown half a degree to listen.
Lighting & palette. Cream sky, indigo canopy, teal glints on falling digits, cream rim on Dzino.
Sound cue. Wind. A barely-there glitch tone like a CRT warming up. No music.
AI-gen prompt. "Wide voxel landscape, tiny indigo+cream character with orange crown at edge of forest where every tree is built from stacked glowing cyan 1s and 0s, digits drifting like leaves on a slow breeze, cream dawn sky, Studio Ghibli stillness, 9:16."
Notes. Hold long. Arrive somewhere quiet before anything happens.

Frame 2 — Question-flower path (0:06–0:11)

Composition. Knee-height tracking down a winding path of ?-shaped pixel-flowers curving into the trees.
Action. Camera pushes forward an inch. Flowers do not yet move.
Lighting & palette. Indigo path-shadow, cream stems, cyan question-mark heads.
Sound cue. Whisper of digits up one notch. Wind drops.
AI-gen prompt. "Low POV tracking shot of voxel forest path lined with pixel-flowers shaped like cyan question marks on cream stems, indigo undergrowth, luminous binary canopy, dreamy depth."
Notes. Teaches the visual grammar: question-flowers = question.

Frame 3 — First flower tilts (0:11–0:17)

Composition. Medium close-up. Dzino enters from screen-right past a ?-flower in the foreground.
Action. As he crosses, the flower tilts magnetically toward him — slow, tender — and stays leaning after he passes.
Lighting & palette. Faint cyan brightens on the flower's head.
Sound cue. Single soft cyan-hued chime, half-step lower than the lean-chimes to come.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel question-mark flower bending toward small indigo character as he walks past, pixel petals brightening cyan, motion blur on the bend, shallow depth."
Notes. Foreshadows Dzino's own lean.

Frame 4 — Path of leaning flowers (0:17–0:22)

Composition. Three-quarter overhead. Five flowers in a row all leaning toward Dzino as he walks past.
Action. Dzino mid-stride, unaware. Flowers stay tilted.
Lighting & palette. Indigo + cyan. NO gold yet.
Sound cue. Whisper of digits resumes as bed.
AI-gen prompt. "Three-quarter overhead voxel shot, indigo character mid-walk, trail of question-mark flowers all magnetically tilted toward him, binary-leaf canopy."
Notes. World responds to Dzino before Kiko complicates it.

Act II — The Apple & Kiko (0:22–0:55)

Frame 5 — Frozen apple insert (0:22–0:27)

Composition. Tight insert. Pixel-apple suspended at upper-third; red blinking digital timer beside it reads 00:00:01 in pixel sans-serif.
Action. Apple still. Timer's colon blinks once. :01 does NOT decrement.
Lighting & palette. Indigo bg. Apple is the only red in the episode.
Sound cue. A held high tone like a paused clock. Forest whisper near-silent under it.
AI-gen prompt. "Macro voxel shot of red pixel-apple suspended motionless mid-air, blinking red 00:00:01 digital timer beside it, indigo forest blurred behind, eerie stillness, Schrödinger experiment energy."
Notes. Keep red rare — disappears after the apple resolves off-screen.

Frame 6 — Dzino under the apple (0:27–0:31)

Composition. Low-angle medium. Apple hangs just inside top of frame, directly above Dzino's path.
Action. Two more steps. Apple stays frozen above him. Tension.
Lighting & palette. Indigo + cream; cyan digits drifting between them.
Sound cue. Held high tone continues. Footsteps land on pixel-moss.
AI-gen prompt. "Low-angle voxel composition, indigo character walking unaware below frozen red apple with timer, drifting cyan digits between, cinematic suspense."
Notes. Hold one beat too long.

Frame 7 — Kiko's voice (0:31–0:34)

Composition. Same as Frame 6, no camera move.
Action. Dzino freezes mid-step, crown twitches up.
Lighting & palette. Unchanged.
Sound cue. KIKO (off-screen): "DON'T STAND UNDER THAT APPLE." Fast, dry, slightly nasal. Underneath: first kick of the staccato leitmotif (clock at 1.5x).
AI-gen prompt. "Same low-angle voxel shot, character mid-step frozen with surprise, crown perked. Audio overlay only — no visual change."
Notes. Voice-only reveal. Kiko is heard before seen.

Frame 8 — Dzino leaps aside (0:34–0:36)

Composition. Wide on the path.
Action. Dzino mid-jump leftward, voxel limbs splayed; lands flat on his butt off the path. Apple unchanged.
Lighting & palette. Cream pixel-puff dust where he lands.
Sound cue. Soft thud; leitmotif accelerates.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel character mid-leap sideways off forest path, limbs splayed, comedic timing, dust pixel-puff, indigo+cream."
Notes. Comedy beat — Dzino is six minutes old.

Frame 9 — Reveal Kiko upside-down (0:36–0:42)

Composition. Up-tilt to a low branch. Kiko hangs by his back paws, lab coat pixels falling upward toward camera as if gravity is confused. Goggles on forehead, pixel-notebook in right paw.
Action. He glances down without stopping his scribble; tail flicks once.
Lighting & palette. Cream-white coat pops; coat-edges shimmer faint cyan as if rendering.
Sound cue. KIKO: "Don't stand under that apple. It's an unethical experiment." Leitmotif at full bounce.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel cat scientist hanging upside-down from binary-glyph branch, lab coat made of visibly individual cream-white pixels falling upward as if defying gravity, goggles pushed up on forehead, tiny pixel-notebook and pencil, mischievous expression."
Notes. Establishing shot of Kiko for the season. Hold long.

Frame 10 — Kiko hops down (0:42–0:46)

Composition. Side angle, full body. Branch upper-left, ground lower-right.
Action. He releases — does NOT fall — hops down through the air as if descending invisible stairs in three precise steps. Coat-pixels re-settle right-way around on landing.
Lighting & palette. Faint cyan trail behind each hop.
Sound cue. Three staccato pings on the hops; leitmotif resolves on landing.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel cat in pixel lab coat hopping down through midair in three discrete steps as if invisible stairs, defying gravity calmly, lands cleanly beside indigo character."
Notes. Casual mastery of the impossible. No flourish.

Act III — Path of Questions (0:46–1:54)

Frame 11 — Walking the path (0:46–0:55)

Composition. Side tracking two-shot, medium-wide. Kiko walks ahead scribbling; Dzino follows.
Action. Kiko points vaguely without looking up.
Lighting & palette. Indigo + cream + cyan blur of digit-leaves.
Sound cue. Leitmotif becomes steady underscore; digit-whisper returns.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel side-tracking shot, cat scientist with notebook walking ahead of small indigo character, binary forest path, drifting cyan digit-leaves."
Notes. Settle into rhythm before the eight-tree montage.

Frame 12 — Tree 1: dancer (0:55–1:00)

Composition. Front-on medium. A binary tree fills center; its 1s and 0s lift, swirl, and rearrange into a dancing figure mid-twirl.
Action. Dzino enters from screen-left, halts. Kiko stops, pencil poised.
Lighting & palette. Cyan glyphs on indigo; dancer-silhouette glows brighter.
Sound cue. KIKO: "A question. No answer. Just lean." Leitmotif drops to a single sustained tick.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of stacked cyan 1s and 0s rearranging midair into the silhouette of a dancing figure, indigo background, indigo character watching."
Notes. Sell the rearranging — digits should visibly travel.

Frame 13 — Lean 1: toward dancer (1:00–1:04)

Composition. Tighter two-shot. Dzino in profile; Kiko's notebook in foreground.
Action. Dzino leans forward slightly; tiny gold sparks rise from the lean and curl toward the tree. Dancer-silhouette brightens.
Lighting & palette. First gold of the episode.
Sound cue. CHIME 1. Soft, warm, mid-register. Pencil scratch audible.
AI-gen prompt. "Profile voxel shot, indigo character leaning toward glowing dancer-silhouette tree, trail of tiny gold sparks rising, cat scientist scribbling foreground."
Notes. Gold sparks ONLY on leans. Reserve.

Frame 14 — Tree 2: book (1:04–1:08)

Composition. Match-cut to Frame 12; glyphs reform as an open book.
Action. Dzino approaches, pauses.
Lighting & palette. Cyan on indigo, unchanged.
Sound cue. Leitmotif tick.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of stacked cyan 1s and 0s rearranging into the silhouette of an open book, indigo background."
Notes. Tight match-cut to teach the pattern wordlessly.

Frame 15 — Lean 2: toward book (1:08–1:11)

Composition. Same as Frame 13.
Action. Lean; sparks.
Lighting & palette. Gold + cyan.
Sound cue. CHIME 2 — same chime, half-step up.
AI-gen prompt. "Profile voxel shot, indigo character leaning toward glowing book-silhouette tree, gold sparks, pencil scratch."
Notes. Repeat the Lean 1 framing deliberately.

Frame 16 — Tree 3: guitar (1:11–1:15)

Composition. Match-cut; glyphs reform as a guitar.
Action. Dzino approaches.
Lighting & palette. Cyan on indigo.
Sound cue. Leitmotif tick.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of cyan 1s and 0s rearranging into the silhouette of a guitar, indigo background."
Notes. Stay neutral so the away lean lands.

Frame 17 — Lean 3: away from guitar (1:15–1:18)

Composition. Same camera.
Action. Dzino tilts slightly backward — small, polite. NO gold sparks; guitar dims a notch.
Lighting & palette. Cyan dims; gold absent.
Sound cue. No chime. A negative tick — metronome's off-beat. Longer pencil scratch (Kiko logs the absence).
AI-gen prompt. "Profile voxel shot, indigo character tilting subtly backward away from a dimming guitar-silhouette tree, no sparks, cat scientist scribbling more carefully."
Notes. Kiko logs every lean, including the away ones.

Frame 18 — Tree 4: thunderstorm (1:18–1:23)

Composition. Match-cut; cloud with one jagged bolt.
Action. Dzino leans halfway forward — then visibly pulls back.
Lighting & palette. Brighter cyan flicker on the bolt.
Sound cue. CHIME 3 (partial) — begins, falters.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of cyan 1s and 0s forming stormcloud with jagged lightning bolt, indigo character leaning forward then pulling back, half a gold spark rising and dissipating."
Notes. Most expressive frame — sell the half-pull-back with an extra animation key.

Frame 19 — Tree 5: telescope (1:23–1:27)

Composition. Match-cut; telescope on a tripod.
Action. Dzino sees it; beat.
Lighting & palette. Cyan on indigo.
Sound cue. Leitmotif tick.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of cyan 1s and 0s forming a telescope silhouette with tripod, indigo background."
Notes. Setup for the strongest lean.

Frame 20 — Lean 5: hard toward telescope (1:27–1:31)

Composition. Same camera, slight push-in.
Action. Dzino leans hard, almost off-balance; larger plume of gold sparks. Telescope goes brilliant cyan-white.
Lighting & palette. Brightest gold + most cyan glow of the eight.
Sound cue. CHIME 4. Full bell, longer sustain.
AI-gen prompt. "Push-in voxel shot, indigo character leaning hard forward almost tipping, big plume of gold sparks streaming toward brilliantly glowing telescope-silhouette tree, cat scientist eyebrows raised."
Notes. The lean that means something. Hold an extra frame.

Frame 21 — Tree 6: knife (1:31–1:35)

Composition. Match-cut; knife.
Action. Dzino arrives, stops.
Lighting & palette. Cyan slightly cooler — steel-blue at the blade.
Sound cue. Leitmotif tick, slower.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of cyan 1s and 0s forming a knife silhouette, slightly cooler steel-blue tone, indigo background."
Notes. No menace; the knife is a question, not a threat.

Frame 22 — Lean 6: away from knife (1:35–1:39)

Composition. Same camera.
Action. Dzino tilts back more clearly than from the guitar; knife dims to indigo-grey. NO gold.
Lighting & palette. Cyan dims to grey.
Sound cue. Soft thunk — negative-tick, deeper than Frame 17.
AI-gen prompt. "Profile voxel shot, indigo character tilting clearly backward away from dimming knife-silhouette tree, no sparks."
Notes. Pace exactly like Lean 3 to build rhyme.

Frame 23 — Tree 7: cake (1:39–1:43)

Composition. Match-cut; layer cake with one voxel candle.
Action. Dzino brightens visibly — eye-pixels widen.
Lighting & palette. Cyan + tiniest warm cream halo.
Sound cue. Leitmotif tick with a wink — one grace-note.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel tree of cyan 1s and 0s forming a layer cake silhouette with single candle, faint warm cream halo, indigo background."
Notes. Comic relief — dial it just barely.

Frame 24 — Lean 7: toward cake (1:43–1:47)

Composition. Same camera, slight push-in.
Action. Eager forward lean; generous gold sparks.
Lighting & palette. Gold + a touch more cream than other lean shots.
Sound cue. CHIME 5 — small upward two-note arpeggio, playful.
AI-gen prompt. "Voxel character leaning eagerly toward cake-silhouette tree, generous gold sparks, slight smile, cat scientist amused."
Notes. Brightest moment of joy in the montage.

Frame 25 — Tree 8 + Lean 8 compressed (1:47–1:54)

Composition. Wider; the eighth tree in long shot.
Action. Glyphs rearrange into a smaller, harder-to-read shape — leave it ambiguous (a key? a hand? viewer's choice). Dzino leans gently, certain. Sparks.
Lighting & palette. Gold + cyan.
Sound cue. CHIMES 6, 7, 8 — three soft chimes layered, the last sustained. Total chime-events across the montage land on eight counting the partial in Frame 18 and grace-note in Frame 24.
AI-gen prompt. "Wide voxel shot of the eighth question-tree forming an ambiguous silhouette, indigo character leaning forward with gentle certainty, gold sparks, cat scientist closing notebook with a flourish."
Notes. Compress — viewer knows the rhythm by now.

Frame 26 — Notebook close-up (1:54–1:58)

Composition. Macro insert on Kiko's pixel-notebook. Hand-scribbled symbols: dancer, book, guitar (slashed), cloud-bolt with ?, telescope (underlined twice), knife (slashed), cake (with a heart), ambiguous final glyph.
Action. A tiny chime-spark flicks off the page beside each entry as the camera pans down.
Lighting & palette. Cream paper, cyan ink that pulses faintly.
Sound cue. Eight tiny ticks — playback of the leans.
AI-gen prompt. "Macro voxel close-up of tiny pixel-paper notebook, hand-scribbled symbols of dancer/book/guitar/storm/telescope/knife/cake plus ambiguous glyph, cyan ink, gold spark-chimes flickering off each entry as camera pans down."
Notes. Proof Kiko was listening to every lean, including the away ones.

Act IV — The Shard (1:58–2:25)

Frame 27 — "These aren't answers" (1:58–2:03)

Composition. Two-shot, medium. Kiko foreground, Dzino slightly behind right.
Action. Kiko looks up, taps the page with pencil.
Lighting & palette. Cyan rim on goggles.
Sound cue. KIKO: "These aren't answers. These are seeds." Leitmotif holds on a single sustained tick.
AI-gen prompt. "Two-shot voxel medium, cat scientist tapping notebook page meaningfully, small indigo character behind looking on, soft gold residue in air."
Notes. Thesis line. Bring Kiko's voice forward in the mix.

Frame 28 — Page tear (2:03–2:07)

Composition. Tight on the notebook. Paw rips a single page free.
Action. Page lifts on its own breath into the air between Kiko and Dzino; it hovers.
Lighting & palette. Cyan ink begins to glow brighter as it floats.
Sound cue. A clean paper rip, pixel-textured, like a tiny record scratch.
AI-gen prompt. "Macro voxel shot, paw tearing single page from pixel notebook, page rising into mid-air on its own, cyan ink glowing brighter."
Notes. Small ceremony, not a discard.

Frame 29 — Mid-air origami (2:07–2:13)

Composition. Floating page in center; camera slow-orbits 90°.
Action. Three crisp folds. The page resolves into a tilted geometric shard: cyan core, gold edges, indigo facets. Echoes a brain loosely without being literal.
Lighting & palette. Cyan + gold + indigo — full episode palette in one object.
Sound cue. Three folds — tick, tick, click. On the click, leitmotif drops out. Half a beat of silence.
AI-gen prompt. "Mid-air voxel origami, paper folding itself in three crisp moves into a small geometric shard with cyan core, gold edges, indigo facets, slow 90-degree orbit, ceremonial."
Notes. Hero shot. Light it like the centerpiece.

Frame 30 — Shard clicks into chest (2:13–2:18)

Composition. Medium head-on of Dzino. Shard floats from screen-right toward his chest.
Action. Shard accelerates the last inch, clicks flush into his voxel surface. Ring of gold sparks blooms outward and fades.
Lighting & palette. Gold ring + cyan inner glow + indigo body.
Sound cue. Crisp chime click. Then Voice 1 of Dzino's chord (carried from E01) plays alone for half a beat.
AI-gen prompt. "Medium head-on voxel shot, indigo character with shard clicking flush into chest, ring of gold sparks blooming outward, expression of quiet recognition."
Notes. Small held breath, not a big reaction.

Frame 31 — Two-voice chord (2:18–2:25)

Composition. Slow push-in on Dzino's chest until shard glow fills two-thirds of frame.
Action. Cyan core pulses once; Voice 2 enters the chord.
Lighting & palette. Cyan core pulses, settles to steady gold-cyan glow. Optional faint SoundDNA waveform overlay shows a second harmonic line gaining behind him.
Sound cue. Voice 2 enters dissonant against Voice 1 — half a second of unease — then resolves into thirds. Two-voice chord sustains, clean.
AI-gen prompt. "Slow push-in voxel shot of indigo character's chest, shard glow filling frame, faint waveform overlay gaining a second harmonic line, gold-cyan luminance."
Notes. The dissonance is the point. Do not soften it.

Act V — Onward (2:25–3:30)

Frame 32 — Kiko climbs back (2:25–2:32)

Composition. Wide. Kiko already three-quarters back up his branch, lab coat pixels reversing gravity again as he climbs.
Action. He doesn't look at Dzino. Mumbling new hypotheses we can almost hear: "…statistically distributed across a leaning gradient of…"
Lighting & palette. Indigo + cream + cyan canopy.
Sound cue. Leitmotif returns slower, pensive — a clock at 1.0x.
AI-gen prompt. "Wide voxel shot, cat scientist three-quarters up a binary-glyph tree branch, climbing as if gravity were optional, mumbling into notebook, lab coat pixels rearranging."
Notes. Kiko exits the way he entered: sideways. He doesn't acknowledge the goodbye.

Frame 33 — "Statistically speaking" (2:32–2:38)

Composition. Up-tilt from Dzino's POV. Kiko silhouette against cream-and-cyan canopy.
Action. Without turning: KIKO: "Go. Something at the end is already waiting, statistically speaking." Tail flicks.
Lighting & palette. Backlit silhouette, gold glints on goggles.
Sound cue. Leitmotif fades into digit-whisper.
AI-gen prompt. "Up-tilt voxel POV, cat scientist silhouette upside-down on a high branch backlit by cream-cyan canopy, tail flicking, goggles catching gold glint."
Notes. Goodbye that isn't a goodbye.

Frame 34 — Dzino walks on (2:38–2:50)

Composition. Long pull-back. Dzino tiny in lower-third, walking away into deeper forest. Question-mark flowers behind him still tilted in his direction.
Action. He walks; crown bobs; doesn't look back.
Lighting & palette. Cream light intensifies at the far end of the path, suggesting an exit.
Sound cue. Two-voice chord clear and sustained over the wind.
AI-gen prompt. "Long pull-back voxel shot, tiny indigo character walking away into binary forest, question-mark flowers behind him still leaning in his direction, soft cream glow at the far end of the path."
Notes. The chord-sustain shot. Hold long.

Frame 35 — Forest exit + the star (2:50–3:08)

Composition. Pull-up overhead through the canopy. Trees thin out; sky opens into cream-violet dusk. The faint calling-star — slightly brighter than at the end of E01 — pulses once.
Action. Camera continues rising. Dzino visible far below as a single indigo voxel exiting the trees.
Lighting & palette. Cream-violet sky, indigo canopy receding, gold pulse on the star.
Sound cue. Two-voice chord swells slightly. Wind under it.
AI-gen prompt. "Pull-up overhead voxel shot rising through binary-glyph canopy into cream-violet dusk sky, faint calling star pulsing once with a gold tone, tiny indigo character exiting the trees far below."
Notes. Star pulse is the seasonal continuity beat — match its rhythm to E01 and E03.

Frame 36 — Tag: Kiko fading (3:08–3:30)

Composition. Slow zoom-out on Kiko's silhouette upside-down on the branch, scribbling. Distance increases until he becomes one cyan flicker among the binary leaves.
Action. He keeps writing; never looks up; eventually visually indistinguishable from a glyph.
Lighting & palette. Indigo, cream, cyan. No gold.
Sound cue. Two-voice chord sustains. Leitmotif a ghost-echo, then digit-whisper alone. A final breath of wind. Cut.
AI-gen prompt. "Slow zoom-out voxel shot, cat scientist upside-down silhouette on a branch scribbling forever, growing small against binary canopy until indistinguishable from drifting glyphs, two-voice ambient chord."
Notes. The tag rhymes with the entrance — both quiet wides. Viewer leaves the way they came in.

Style anchors needed

Lock these reference plates before generation; without them, AI video drift will be severe.

Binary forest plate. One tree built from stacked cyan 1s and 0s — glyph treatment, drift behaviour, dissolve into "leaves." Lock cyan #5EEAD4 and indigo bark (#4F46E5 -10% saturation).
Question-mark flower plate. Three poses: upright neutral, leaning toward Dzino, fully tilted. Establishes the magnetism behaviour.
Frozen apple plate. Apple + 00:00:01 timer locked composition. Dusty red #E25A53, pixel sans-serif digits. Only red object in the episode.
Kiko character sheet. Front, side, three-quarter, upside-down. Lab coat with individual visible pixels (not smooth white). Goggles up on forehead. Pixel-notebook. Tail. The upside-down pose with coat-pixels falling upward must be a reference.
Eight question-tree silhouettes. Eight cards: dancer, book, guitar, thunderstorm, telescope, knife, cake, ambiguous-eighth. Consistent silhouette weight so the match-cut sequence reads as a single shape morphing.
Lean-and-spark plate. Dzino in profile mid-lean with the gold spark trail. Locks spark size, density, curl. Gold #F5C268.
Shard plate. Interests shard — page-folded geometric solid, cyan core, gold edges, indigo facets. Three angles. Must be unmistakable next to the other ten shards in E12's assembly.
SoundDNA waveform overlay. Visual asset for Frame 31's audio-reactive moment — two-line waveform showing Voice 1 + Voice 2. Reusable across the season as more voices stack.
Notebook page reference. Hand-scribbled symbols at scale (Frame 26). Establishes Kiko's handwriting, ink behaviour, cyan pulse.
Canopy-light plate. Cream-violet dusk sky with the calling star (Frame 35). Must rhyme exactly with the closing of E01 and the opening of E03 for inter-episode continuity.

LoRA recommendation. If using Stable Video Diffusion, train one LoRA on plates 1, 4, 7 — these carry the strongest episode identity. The rest can be fed as per-shot style references.

Critical drift risks.

Kiko's lab coat smoothing into solid white — kill it; pixels must be visible.
Binary glyphs becoming generic Matrix code-rain — kill it; these are voxel leaves, drifting slow.
Gold sparks bleeding into non-lean shots — kill it; gold is reserved for leans and the shard.
Question-mark flowers losing lean memory — they should stay tilted after Dzino passes.
The apple timer ticking down — it must NOT; 00:00:01 is locked forever.