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The fluorescent light of the studio flickered, casting long, jittery shadows across Elias’s desk. It was 3:00 AM, the hour of desperation. His client, a high-end watch brand, wanted a 3D render of a gravity-defying tourbillon by sunrise. His old workstation had crashed an hour ago, taking his licensed software with it in a puff of digital smoke. He opened it
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