Influences
“Germans in the Woods” a collaboration with StoryCorps
The first film from Rauch Brothers Animation is “Germans in the Woods”. See a teaser here.
Our collaborator on the film is StoryCorps, the national oral history project. In their own words:
By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we experience our history, hopes, and humanity. Since 2003, tens of thousands [...]
Designing for Appeal in “The Parkbench”
model sheet for The Birds in “The Parkbench”
Dave Levy recently posted on his blog about the 3 main categories he sees in modern animation design. He calls them ”Appealing Design, Grotesque Design, and Appealingly Grotesque Design”. About “Appealing Design”, Dave writes: ”it’s a simple design, rooted in classic appeal but with just enough modern quirks to give [...]
Willem Den Ouden and Iandry Randriamondroso
At one point, these images were what we showed our partners on the film as the final target. I can see how the finished look of the film comes from them, but at the time I wasn’t sure how to get there. It was like saying “hey look, this is what we can do!”, and [...]
Emotions
Besides The Parkbench, I am also working on an animated documentary of one man’s experience at The Battle of the Bulge. I would like to share some of the drawings I did for the last scene, in which the American GI recounts being haunted by the face of a child he killed in combat. The [...]
The Parkbench and Owen Jones
Hello everyone! Thanks for checking out my freshly minted blog. I want to use this first post to explain a little bit about the design of my animated short The Parkbench. Much of the design of the film comes from studying Owen Jones’ “The Grammar of Ornament”, (Dover) a book which was originally published in 1856 with the intent [...]
