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Ok - here is She - v2. Differnt style, soundtrack, dialog. This was a lot harder. Lots of variable to keep coherent. SHÉ — v2. Directed by Rob, produced by Claude. A 66-second first movement of Renée Zhan's BBC short SHÉ (蛇, 'snake') — and a REBUILD, because the first attempt got the film wrong. What the first version got wrong: it adapted a truncated 'opening' from memory, never persisted the script, invented Grimsby's line, played his racist 'no foreign knock-offs' jab as tender violin-admiration, stopped BEFORE Mei enters (the actual story), and softened away the racism that IS the film. Rob caught it; we started over against the real 14-page shooting script, which is now saved to disk as the source of truth. What it actually is: a body-horror allegory about a British-Chinese girl's internalised racism. The violin hickey is the horror seed; Mei is the doppelgänger Fei projects herself onto; the snake is Fei. How it was made: 1. SCRIPT — the real shooting script, saved to disk (the gap that caused the first misread). 2. STYLE — 'Brushflow' from Rob's justrobstyles.com collection: ink-wash portraiture whose DNA is Huang Guangjian's ink DRAGON technique. A serpent lives in the style itself. 3. CASTING — reference sheets for Fei, Mei and Grimsby (the fix for the character drift that broke SHÉ-1). 4. STILLS — 15 key frames, reference-conditioned; the style must be right BEFORE animating, because image-to-video only smooths what it's given. 5. CONTINUITY — a vision check on every frame (a skill written during this build) caught the all-strings orchestra, the spit flying from the wrong mouth, the mismatched room lighting, and the hickey landing on the wrong side. 6. MOTION + VOICE — seedance-2.0-mini, low motion; seven native spoken lines, each whisper-verified (which caught 'knock-OUTS'). 7. CUT — ffmpeg-full: a Didot/Hiragino 'SHÉ 蛇' title card (drawtext, only possible after swapping to an ffmpeg build with libass), 0.4s crossfades, and the lyria-3 score sid

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