Stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, handcrafted aesthetic, frame-by-frame jerky movement, visible clay textures and wool fibers, color palette now dominated by cold corpse-blue and deep shadows, 1990s Soviet apartment living room. NO SPECTRAL HANDS, NO VAPOR, NO GHOSTS. ONLY WRONG SHADOWS, WRONG LIGHT, AND SPREADING STAINS. CAMERA: the slow push-in from Scene 3 c...
