two-character poster — Silhouette, top title, two figures

A stop-motion animation movie poster shows two small adult clay figures with wide eyes sitting atop a giant snail shell, set against a weathered brick apartment building under a dusky amber sky. Across the upper center, the "TITLE" is scrawled in rough, bone-white hand-lettered script, the letters uneven and scratched as if etched into the air. Behind the title, a tall, narrow brick building in rust-brown rises through the middle of the frame, its surface pitted and stained. In the upper-left and upper-right corners, crooked television antennas and air-conditioning units jut from the rooftops against the darkening sky. On the left edge, a clothesline sags with hanging laundry silhouetted against the amber sunset. Across the middle band, dark rectangular windows puncture the brick facade, some glowing faintly warm from within. In the lower half of the frame, an enormous snail shell fills the foreground, its spiraled segments rendered in mottled umber and ochre with a rough, stony texture. Near the bottom center, the two small adult figures in their thirties sit side by side on the shell's crown, their oversized dark shoes dangling. On the left, an adult figure with messy black yarn hair, drooping eyelids, and a somber expression wears a dark olive shirt and holds open a book. The book's cover shows a small ink illustration and hand-drawn lettering, rendered too small to read in full. The figure also pinches a tiny magnifying glass between its fingers. On the right, a second adult figure wears a knitted brown snail-shell cap with two thin stalks rising from it, each tipped with a round white eyeball. This figure has a gentle, lopsided smile and holds open a second book with faint illustrated lettering on its cover. In its other hand, it grips a clear glass holding a red-and-white striped straw. Both figures have the lumpy, handmade texture of claymation puppets, with visible fingerprints in their forms. In the lower-right background, the dark silhouette of an industrial skyline with smokestacks looms behind the building. The lighting is low, warm sunset light striking from the left, raking across the brick and the shell with long soft shadows, while the upper sky deepens into dusky blue-grey and the windows catch small amber glints. A fine haze hangs in the air, softening the distant rooftops. The tiny scale of the readers against the looming building and the gigantic shell creates a storybook sense of smallness in a big, worn world. The overall composition balances the two tiny readers centered on the massive shell against the towering brick building behind them, pairing a rust-brown, amber, and dusky-blue palette with handcrafted stop-motion styling to create a mood of melancholy, whimsical tenderness.