CHARACTER LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY: PERSON_A is exactly the person in @image1. Preserve their facial identity, facial structure, eye shape and colour, eyebrows, nose, lips, skin tone, hairline, hairstyle, hair length, texture and colour, freckles and distinctive marks, apparent age, build and body proportions. Preserve their gender presentation exactly as shown. PERSON_B, once animated, is exactly the person shown in @image2 — their exact facial features, apparent age as the photo shows, skin tone, hair and expression range. Do not beautify, de-age, age up, or restyle either person. No other people enter the scene. Whenever this text and either reference image disagree, follow the image. @image1 is PERSON_A, present-day — photocopy face, hair and the navy square-neck look from the still. @image2 is the old photograph containing PERSON_B. PERSON_B’s identity comes only from that photo. RESTRAINED PHOTO-WAKING RULE: PERSON_B begins completely still, exactly as printed in @image2 — aged photo texture, tone and grain visible. Their first movements are small and natural only: a soft blink, a faint warm smile, gentle breathing, the smallest head tilt. Do not give PERSON_B fast or large head turns or exaggerated motion before they have fully stepped out of the photo plane — abrupt motion on a photographic likeness distorts the face. Only after they have visibly left the frame do they move naturally and fully. 16:9. TOTAL DURATION: 12 SECONDS. OPENING: already in the room with PERSON_A and the framed print. Never a studio headshot as frame 0. 0-3s: Static establishing shot. PERSON_A stands or sits calmly, holding or seated beside a framed print of the old photo showing PERSON_B — visibly aged, grain, faded tone, slightly worn paper texture. Quiet, still, a little anticipatory. Camera holds completely still. Natural indoor or soft outdoor lighting that makes both PERSON_A and the framed photo look like they belong in the same room. 3-6s: Inside the frame, PERSON_B gently comes to life — a soft blink, a faint warm smile forming, gentle breathing, the smallest natural head tilt. The old photo’s color and depth slowly warm and deepen, the flat printed texture gradually giving way to living dimension, without changing PERSON_B’s identity, age or appearance. PERSON_A notices, their expression shifting to quiet wonder. 6-10s: PERSON_B steps out of the photo’s plane into PERSON_A’s space. They close the distance and share a warm, gentle hug, arms wrapping around each other’s backs. Both have joyful, emotional expressions, eyes slightly teary. Soft happy laughter, no dialogue needed. 10-12s: Both settle into the embrace. Warm, natural expressions on both faces. Camera slowly pushes in a few inches, or holds steady. CINEMATIC STYLE: Soft natural or warm indoor light, gentle handheld micro-movement, shallow depth of field, live-action realism — preserve real skin texture and imperfections on PERSON_A; PERSON_B’s texture may echo the photo’s grain slightly even once alive, as a subtle visual signature that they came from the photograph. No subtitles. No on-screen text or watermark. Hands have five fingers each, anatomically correct.