Stylized 2D illustration of a retro hacker

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Create a stylized 2D Western animated illustration of a mysterious young male hacker sitting at a vintage desktop computer in a cramped retro computer room. He has short black hair with a sharp white fringe, an angular pale face, a large expressive side-profile eye, an oversized dark jacket with geometric markings, and long slender fingers typing on a chunky mechanical keyboard. Extreme low-angle fisheye perspective from desk level, oversized hands dominating the foreground, bulky CRT monitor on the left, curved tiled ceiling, scattered wall posters, and strong architectural depth. Preserve the character's focused typing pose, distinctive facial expression, dramatic camera angle, and coherent spatial arrangement. Render in a sophisticated stylized Western 2D animation aesthetic with delicate hand-drawn comic illustration techniques and refined graphic character design. Thin, confident dark navy ink outlines with subtle organic irregularities, natural line-weight variation, expressive flowing contours, selectively broken edges, and precise facial linework. Simplified geometric anatomy, exaggerated but believable proportions, angular character construction, and distinctive silhouettes. Large uninterrupted flat color regions, clean two-tone cel shading, sharply defined angular shadow blocks, simplified geometric highlights, minimal gradients, and carefully balanced graphic shapes. Subtle short pencil hatching, restrained dry-brush marks along selected edges, imperfect freehand contours, and crisp matte color fills. Sophisticated 2D animation keyframe aesthetics, cinematic spatial perspective, bold editorial illustration composition, expressive character acting, and elegant visual simplicity. Strictly use a cohesive cool blue color palette of cornflower blue, dusty cobalt, slate blue, muted periwinkle, powder blue, pale icy cyan, and deep navy, complemented by tiny muted golden-yellow accents. The ceiling and walls use layered desaturated blues, the CRT monitor displays a flat pale icy-blue screen, the character's clothing is deep navy with angular cobalt shadow planes, and the keyboard uses muted blue-gray tones. Soft cool blue ambient lighting unifies the entire composition, with small warm yellow details creating restrained visual contrast. Harmonious blue-on-blue color separation, strong tonal hierarchy, matte surfaces, and clean graphic lighting. Apply refined localized gradient halftone shading only within selected cel-shaded shadow regions, especially along the character's fingers, cheek shadows, jacket folds, and occasional architectural shadow boundaries. Use extremely fine, tightly arranged halftone microdots in colors matching the underlying shadows, gradually decreasing in size and opacity toward the illuminated areas. The halftone creates elegant soft tonal transitions within small, organically shaped shadow zones, naturally dissolving into clean flat colors. The pattern must be clearly recognizable as delicate traditional comic-print halftone shading at close inspection, never as large individual decorative circles. Keep all other surfaces perfectly clean and solid, without any global texture. Preserve strong cinematic depth through exaggerated fisheye perspective, overlapping graphic shapes, and precise architectural construction rather than realistic lighting gradients. High-end stylized animated film frame, expressive character silhouette, sophisticated handcrafted linework, refined flat-color shading, and cohesive visual design.