Inside Looks
“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 [...]
Meeting the Littmans
Tim, Joshua and Mike: 3 people, 3 pairs of glasses
The next Rauch Brothers film, another collaboration with the StoryCorps project, comes from a conversation between Joshua Littman and his mother, Sarah. They live in Connecticut, not far from our Brooklyn studio, and we were very pleased to be able to meet them this past summer. [...]
Designing Our New Film
Concept art from the next Rauch Brothers film
In designing our new film, a humorous but sincere conversation between mother and son, I looked to the two films posted below and the beautiful artwork in Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff’s Babar. The first film comes from Russia’s Soyuzmultfilm studio, the second from Rembrandt Films, and [...]
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 [...]
