Pixar-Style 3D Animation Short (Children's Story)

High-quality original 3D animated family film look (soft subsurface skin, expressive eyes, warm global illumination), no existing IP. A tiny round elderly gnome postman with a bushy white beard and round spectacles pilots a wooden mail-cart pulled by an equally tiny grumpy hedgehog through a snowy village at dawn. They hit a bump; a single bright-red letter flies out and slides across ice toward a frozen pond crack; the hedgehog dives and catches it mid-slide in heroic slow motion, then pretends it didn't care while the gnome cheers. Whimsical alpine village of crooked gingerbread houses, warm windows, gentle snowfall, soft golden sunrise, exaggerated appealing character animation with squash-and- stretch, readable silhouettes, expressive brows, snow deformation and powder kick, cozy fable color palette, shallow depth, 24fps cinematic framing, gentle orchestral score with sleigh bells, hedgehog snort, envelope whoosh, 16:9, characters remain on-model, consistent cart proportions. ================================================================================