“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 [...]
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 [...]
WWII Film Backgrounds
In this post, I want to describe our process for creating the backgrounds in our new film. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the look we wanted was that of Willem Den Ouden’s dark, moody etchings. Starting with my rough sketches, Iandry and Tom Witte created paintings and drawings for the various scenes.
drawings by Tom Witte
One [...]
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 [...]
Woman and Dog
These are a few character sketches from another short film I am currently boarding and hoping to put into production later this year. It would be another animated documentary, this time from an interview with a woman running a very small, unsuccessful museum in rural Texas. The woman was getting older and a bit worn [...]
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 [...]
