Create a single vertical anime animation development board for an original emotional summer short film titled “The Little Red Umbrella.”
The output must be ONE combined image with two sections: an anime character design sheet and a cinematic storyboard page.
IMPORTANT: Create fully original anime characters. Do not imitate existing anime characters directly. Avoid any copyrighted anime character resemblance. Keep the designs unique, but inspired by soft nostalgic anime films.
STYLE: Premium anime pre-production board mixing clean character design studies with beautiful semi-rendered anime keyframes. Use watercolor-style lighting, soft summer colors, blue-gray rain tones, warm sunlight, soft shadows, and cinematic compositions. The board should feel like a real premium anime film development sheet.
IMPORTANT FOR STORYBOARD: Keep every storyboard frame completely clean. Do not place arrows, camera guides, motion lines, handwritten notes, labels, timestamps, lens information, frame numbers, diagrams, captions, or production markings inside or over the storyboard images.
LAYOUT: Clean vertical composition with 2 sections.
SECTION A — CHARACTER DESIGN SHEET
Girl: A gentle young anime girl around 10 years old with soft black hair tied into a short ponytail, large expressive brown eyes, and soft round facial features. She wears an oversized light-yellow summer dress, small brown crossbody satchel, white socks, and brown shoes. She carries a small bright-red umbrella with a curved wooden handle. Her mood should feel gentle, curious, compassionate, peaceful, and emotionally warm.
Show the girl in front view, side profile, 3/4 angle, expressions of curiosity, happiness, concern, and warmth, plus poses holding the umbrella, running through rain, crouching, and carrying a kitten.
Kitten: A tiny fluffy gray-and-white kitten with large amber-brown anime-style eyes, white muzzle and chest, gray ears and back, tiny pink nose, soft fur, tiny paws, and a fluffy gray tail. The kitten should feel curious, vulnerable, innocent, playful, and trusting.
Show the kitten in front view, side profile, 3/4 view, expressions of curiosity, fear, happiness, and sleepiness, plus sitting, running, and curled-up poses.
Add small soft pastel color swatches beside the character designs.
SECTION B — STORYBOARD
Create 8 clean cinematic anime storyboard frames arranged in a simple grid. Keep the girl, clothing, kitten, umbrella, and environment designs visually consistent across all panels. The frames must contain ONLY the cinematic scenes with no arrows, motion indicators, text, captions, labels, timestamps, diagrams, or production annotations.
STORY BEATS:
The girl walks along a sunny countryside road while a tiny kitten quietly follows several meters behind her.
A raindrop lands on her hand and she looks upward as dark summer clouds suddenly cover the bright sky.
Heavy rain begins and the girl opens her bright-red umbrella and runs toward a small roadside shelter.
Safe beneath the shelter, she looks back and notices the tiny kitten shivering underneath a wooden bench in the rain.
The girl immediately leaves the dry shelter and runs back through the heavy rain toward the kitten.
She crouches beside the kitten and holds almost the entire umbrella over it while her own shoulder gets soaked.
The girl carries the kitten against her chest while walking home, deliberately tilting the umbrella toward the kitten.
Warm sunset interior shot with the kitten sleeping peacefully beside her near an open window and the wet red umbrella resting near the doorway.
ENVIRONMENT: Bright Japanese countryside during summer with blue skies, green fields, wildflowers, wooden utility poles, narrow rural road, small wooden roadside shelter, dramatic summer rain clouds, wet vegetation, reflective puddles, and a cozy countryside home illuminated by warm sunset light.
FINAL GOAL: Make this feel like a beautiful anime film development board with emotional summer nostalgia, kindness, and cinematic storytelling. The story should be understandable visually without dialogue. Keep every storyboard panel completely clean and suitable for direct image-to-video generation.