CHARACTER AND ART-STYLE LOCK:
Use @Image 1 as the sole visual reference. Strictly preserve the adult woman’s facial structure, eyes, facial markings, tied-back black hair, loose bangs, hoop earrings, fur-collared coat, fingerless gloves, trousers, and lace-up boots. Preserve the raven’s exact appearance and body proportions.
Maintain a strictly monochrome hand-drawn anime style throughout: clean ink lines, blocked grayscale cel shading, heavy blacks, white highlights, detailed feathers, and hand-drawn architecture. No color, photorealism, CGI, thick painterly rendering, or style changes.
SETTING:
A deserted, narrow city street enclosed by tall, decaying buildings. She crouches on a cracked stone platform with the raven standing before her, matching their starting positions in the reference image. The sky is stark white, the architectural shadows are deep black, and scattered feathers drift through the wind.
0.0–2.5s — THE WARNING
Characters visible: the woman and the raven.
At the raven’s eye level, the camera captures a close-up of its beak while the crouching woman remains behind it. Subtle handheld breathing movement.
The raven suddenly turns its head toward the empty street. Focus shifts from the raven to the woman’s eyes. She does not turn her head; only her gaze moves to follow it.
The drifting feathers abruptly freeze in midair. The wind instantly falls silent.
2.5–5.0s — THE FIRST WINGBEAT
Characters visible: the woman and the raven.
Hard cut to a low-angle side view. The raven pushes off the stone platform, spreads its wings, and flies forward along the street.
Brief extreme slow motion: its claws leave the stone as its flight feathers unfold individually. The woman quickly rises behind it.
The raven beats its wings downward for the first time, sending a visible pressure wave along the street. The camera whip-pans to follow it. One black wing sweeps across the lens, creating a natural occlusion transition.
5.0–8.0s — THE CITY LOSES ITS SHADOWS
Characters visible: the raven; the woman appears in the distant background.
A rapid lateral tracking shot follows the raven flying straight along the street with controlled handheld inertia.
The shadows of the buildings peel away from the walls and transform into enormous, flat black ribbons. The physical buildings remain intact, while the newly exposed walls turn stark white.
The shadow ribbons converge along the raven’s flight path and rise into the sky. Balconies and streetlights rush through the foreground, creating strong parallax.
In the background, the woman jumps down from the low stone platform and runs after the raven.
8.0–11.5s — BLACK WINGS ABOVE THE CITY
Characters visible: the woman on the street and the raven overhead.
Cut to an ultra-low-angle wide tracking shot beside her running boots, then whip-tilt sharply toward the sky between two buildings.
The detached shadows merge into the enormous silhouette of a raven, its wings spanning several city blocks. The physical raven remains normal-sized and clearly visible beneath the center of the shadow.
The giant shadow beats its wings downward, sending a shockwave crashing through the street. Windows tremble, loose bricks fall, and the road splits apart behind her in rapid succession.
She raises one arm to shield herself from the debris, then immediately accelerates. The camera suffers one violent impact before quickly recovering its composition.
11.5–15.0s — THROUGH THE FINAL OPENING
Characters visible: the woman and the raven.
Cut to a low-angle backward tracking shot directly ahead of her.
The raven dives forward through a collapsing stone archway. She follows closely, lowers her body, and performs one fast slide beneath a falling crossbeam.
The camera retreats close to the ground, clearly capturing her boots scraping across the stone, her coat trailing behind her, and rubble passing just above her head.
After sliding beyond the archway, she immediately plants one hand on the ground, rises, and continues running. The archway crashes down behind her, blocking the pursuing black shadow.
During the final half-second, the camera whip-pans forward. The raven has already turned into the next, darker alley. She follows it and runs out of frame.
End on a hard cut while the action is still moving. She must not stop, look back, or strike a pose.
CAMERA AND ACTION:
Controlled handheld tension, wing-occlusion transitions, extremely low camera angles, strong foreshortening, slow motion only during takeoff, rapid tracking, and a ground-level slide.
Keep her face and limbs stable. Maintain one continuous running direction. Communicate the shadow’s immense scale through comparison with the buildings. Do not conceal the action with chaotic camera shake.
AUDIO:
Close raven call, sudden silence, explosive wingbeats, paper-tearing sounds as the shadows peel away, architectural groaning, cracking pavement, rapid footsteps, sliding friction, and the collapse of the stone archway.
End with the sound of footsteps continuing into the distance.
No dialogue.
EXCLUDE:
Additional people, additional physical ravens, character duplicates, outfit changes, new weapons, extra fingers, colored eyes or effects, random explosions, buildings transforming into birds, uncontrolled spinning camera movements, a heroic standing pose at the end, direct eye contact with the camera, slow-motion posing, text, and logos.