A single key frame from a modern premium 2D hand-drawn animated film, in the exact drawing style of the reference images: bold simple graphic shapes, big solid flat colour masses, fine ink lines, flat gouache texture. Image 1 is the location: the pale stone townhouse front with the black door and the black wall lantern. Image 2 shows the man at four ages; here he is the third version: thick full copper beard streaked with grey, grey temples, long black overcoat, open white shirt. Wide 16:9, a close medium shot from the chest up, grey winter afternoon, light snowflakes falling. The man stands beside the black wall lantern, the edge of the black door visible on the left, facing the camera in three-quarter view, eyes straight ahead, perfectly dignified, a calm half smile, a thin dusting of snow on his shoulders and in his hair. No other people. No text, no letters.
