Soviet hand-drawn 2D animation still from the late 1970s, painterly gouache and watercolor backgrounds on textured paper, soft edges, almost no black outlines, muted palette of ochre, umber, grey-blue and warm white, gentle film grain, flat lighting with soft atmospheric haze, characters drawn simply with expressive silhouettes, no 3D rendering, no glossy surfaces. Grey St. Petersburg morning, 1878. A crowd of teenage boys in caps and coats at the iron gates of a large naval school with columns, drawn as a mass of simple figures. In the foreground the boy from the reference image reads a paper list pinned to the gate, finger on a line. Wide shot, vertical 9:16, no text.
