Stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, handcrafted aesthetic, frame-...

Stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, handcrafted aesthetic, frame-by-frame movement, visible clay textures and wool fibers, color palette desaturated cold tones — funeral palette of blues, grays, deep burgundy and navy, 1990s Soviet apartment. DEEP FOCUS COMPOSITION: corridor in foreground, living room in background through open doorway, both sharp. ONLY SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS: ghost orb above girl's palm, wheel shadows merging. EVERYTHING ELSE IS GROUNDED AND STILL. CAMERA: completely static for first 3 seconds — no movement at all, absolute stillness. Then extremely slow smooth pull-back for final 2 seconds — camera moves backward by 5%, gliding away. At 4.5-second mark, fade to black begins — 6 distinct steps of decreasing brightness over final half-second. Last visible element before black: the faint ghost orb. CORRIDOR (foreground): Same corridor as Scene 5 — SAME wallpaper, SAME linoleum. Entrance door now NORMAL — no bulge, chain loose, peephole empty. Coat rack with coats now hanging normally, flat, empty. Telephone receiver hanging silent, cord looped into knot. LIVING ROOM (background, visible through doorway): Same room as Scenes 1-4 — wallpaper, linoleum, wall carpet, sideboard with lace doily (dark stain dried), PORCELAIN BALLERINA FIGURINE shattered on sideboard, VINTAGE RADIO dark and silent, bookshelf, sofa, Shishkin painting fallen off wall and lying face-down, coffee table, ceiling lamp motionless, Persian rug. MOM: EXACT SAME as Scene 1 — warm beige skin, crow's feet (now deeper), bluish under-eye shadows (now black pits), brown eyes (dull, no light), auburn permed curls with gray streaks (more pronounced), plum-purple coat (second button now fallen off, lying on floor near her feet), beige floral blouse, black banana bag (zipper fully open, brass keys fallen out on floor), beige wool skirt, dark brown scuffed boots. POSE: Mom stands frozen just inside apartment door. Right hand pressed to mouth in horror. Left hand reaching toward living room doorway but frozen mid-reach, fingers curled in powerless warding gesture. Hand trembles — tiny 1mm vibration for first 2 seconds, then stops. She blinks once — slow shocked blink. GIRL: EXACT SAME as all scenes — warm beige skin (slightly ashen but still warm beige, NOT white), hazel-brown glass eyes (wide open, completely vacant, no light, no reflection, dead glass), brown bob with straight bangs (disheveled, red barrette MISSING), NO white streak, burgundy cable-kni