Vertical 9:16 visual reference sheet for a surreal low-poly 3D animated short. Show the same three fixed subjects clearly and separately in one coherent image: (1) a slim 11-year-old boy with short dark hair, oversized expressive brown eyes, a mustard-yellow sweater, dark green trousers, worn brown boots, and a bright red jacket tied around his waist; (2) a stocky middle-aged train driver with a square face, thick dark moustache, navy railway cap and navy uniform; (3) an old massive dark-green diesel locomotive with a cream stripe, round headlights and weathered metal. Deliberately uncanny early-2000s video-game aesthetic, broken angular anatomy, stiff puppet-like proportions, crude low-poly geometry covered with gritty semi-realistic textures, muted cold blue-grey and muddy brown palette, dramatic overcast light. Full bodies and entire locomotive visible, neutral background, consistent design reference, no text, no captions, no logos.
