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.
Seek Criticism, Not Praise
For my first year or so as a filmmaker, one of my personal hurdles was gaining acceptance and approval. I was new at this, and wanted to find out if I was “good” or not. I quickly learned that approval is actually quite easy to find, even if it might not be warranted. Criticism, on [...]
“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 [...]
Strength in Numbers
It’s called Rauch BROTHERS Animation for a reason. That one little word in the center of our studio name is the lynch-pin that makes the whole thing work. I can’t imagine being responsible for all of the work that goes into making an animated film without someone whose creative opinion I trust as deeply as [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
