Inside Looks
Relationships and Story Guide Character Design
Character design can be a real challenge at times, but it’s also really exciting when you can see the personalities developing in front of you.
I find that we get our best results when the designs reference a specific story point, or a particular relationship dynamic between characters. It forces you to make the designs [...]
Color!
We’re working on color and background design for our latest project. Our goal is to suggest a lot with only a little.
The stage will consist of abstract backgrounds that have a feeling of depth and light like the one above, and others that incorporate elements that are more specific to a particular environment.
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Planning Animation at 6 fps
I’ve experimented with a lot of different frame rates over the years, but my favorite has become 6 fps. It allows me to focus more on the design of each drawing, the acting of the sequence, and proper balance with the audio. The key to making it work is planning the timing and spacing of [...]
Hollering, Shouting, Quiet, Talking, Buzzzzzz!
This is the main character from the work-in-progress we showed in our last post. As you can see, he’s quite an expressive guy. Our new short film follows him as he delivers a monologue about machines causing a decline of communication between people. Watch here for more details as things develop!
“Q&A” showing at Annecy
Rauch Bros. work inspired by W. H. Johnson
As mentioned here last week, the above image is from a new Rauch Brothers project for which we are using William H. Johnson’s work as our visual inspiration. Looking forward to diving in on this one!
A little festival news. As noted before on our Twitter page, “Q&A” will [...]
Rauch Brothers Animation on Flickr
We created a Rauch Brothers Flickr page to share screen shots and concept art from our films with you. The slideshow above is concept art from Germans in the Woods. Check out our other Flickr sets and our photostream to see more. Check back often. We’ll be adding new work all the time.
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New Character Designs
“Q&A” played for the ASIFA-East jury last night and Mike and I were pleased to hear a lot of warm responses. The experience brought us right back to showing our very first film ever at the same event last year. I posted about the experience on the ASIFA-East blog, you can read that here.
Besides “Brewer’s [...]
Concept Art for Brewer’s Bell Museum
With Q&A wrapped up, it’s time to get the next project rolling. Above is a layout with color studies for Brewer’s Bell Museum, a short we started thinking about two years ago. We’ve picked it back up and hope to finish it in 2010. Pictured in this illustration are Virginia Belle Brewer, the proprietor of [...]
