Love and Death
Above is a piece of pre-production artwork from a work-in-progress. It’s a love story told by an unlikely romantic and his wife. The story follows them from their first date together to the last week before the husband dies of pancreatic cancer.
“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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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 [...]
Letter to Brett
early storyboard drawing from “Germans in the Woods”
About a month back I had the opportunity to meet Brett Thompson, the energetic and extremely friendly president of ASIFA Atlanta. I was able to show Brett our film “Germans in the Woods” and began exchanging emails Having just finished the film, it was a great opportunity to share [...]
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 [...]
More WWII Film Backgrounds
In earlier posts (here and here), I talked about the process I used to create the backgrounds in my new short. The image posted at the top is a good example of the kinds of backgrounds I was able to do once I really got going with this method. It was “painted” in Photoshop on [...]
Death of the Soldier
In the short film I am currently working on, the sequence which is closest to my heart is the levitation of the dead soldier. This sequence occurs as the American GI responsible for his death reverently recalls the beauty of the young man he had shot. It became the climax of the film by driving [...]
