Scientific reference sheet of the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) and its rejuvenation cycle, for a children's animated series, soft stylized 3D feature-animation look matching image 1 (our series' sunlit reef, white sand, the tiny clear jellyfish with a bright red core). Image 2 is our girl character, for style only.
Six macro close-up panels left to right on sunlit white sand next to a dark rock:
(1) the adult medusa: a tiny transparent bell only 4 mm across with a bright red core and many fine short tentacles around the rim;
(2) the old or injured medusa sinking to the sand and shrinking into a small round soft blob (cyst);
(3) thin creeping threads (stolons) growing out of the blob and spreading over the dark rock like tiny roots;
(4) small upright polyps growing up from the threads, like a tiny branching plant with little tentacle crowns;
(5) a round bud swelling on the side of one polyp;
(6) the bud opening into a brand-new baby medusa with yellowish dots around its rim, swimming away, with a few more baby medusae nearby.
A thin curved arrow loops from panel 6 back to panel 1 to show that the cycle repeats. Clean sheet, no text, no letters, no numbers.
