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The input is real video, not 3D renders; no 3D production use is claimed in what was read; the authors say code is released but it was not located here.\n\nCurator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B681-08; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. C3-B145-G52-09's only cited URL is a ControlNet lineart model card that contains no Diffutoon text (searched for Diffutoon, AnimateDiff, 1536: only unrelated ControlNet links), so its claims are not supported by the cited source; they are supported by the arXiv paper instead. Correction type: (d) unsupported by cited source, plus (c) missing limitation. Method. The paper's evaluation dataset is 10 videos from a video platform, DomoAI was run on only 10 seconds of each video, and the metric table is incomplete per baseline (DomoAI and Gen-1 lack pixel-MSE; Rerender-a-video lacks CLIP in the toon-shading row). 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