Danny and Annie debuts online
In the iconic StoryCorps love story, Danny and Annie Perasa remember their 27-year romance and brave the finality of loss.
Danny and Annie background art
Jim Smith (Ren and Stimpy, Ripping Friends) and Bill Wray (Ren and Stimpy, The Mighty B!), have been working with us on our StoryCorps animation. They are both incredibly talented and have helped us take these stories to a whole other level with the background art. Jim handled layout on “Danny and Annie” (watch it [...]
Visiting Annie Perasa
Next Tuesday, our animation for StoryCorps will begin airing on the PBS documentary program POV (check your local listings). The first episode follows the amazing love story of Danny and Annie Perasa, from their very first date to the last week of Danny’s life. Over our next few posts, we’ll give a behind-the-scenes look at [...]
StoryCorps series on PBS doc program POV
We’ve been busily working away this summer on a series of StoryCorps shorts that will air on POV, the PBS documentary program. Each episode uses original StoryCorps audio recordings, capturing the powerful and poetic stories of everyday people. The six shorts take viewers from an intimate conversation between a boy with Asperger’s syndrome and his [...]
Online debut of “Q&A”
Just in time for Mother’s Day, “Q&A” is now available to watch online! After screening in more than 30 film festivals over the past year, it is a thrill to be able to share it on the web. “Q&A” is being released online by StoryCorps, for whom we are currently producing several new shorts that [...]
Veterans Day Special – Germans in the Woods
In honor of Veterans Day, we’ve posted “Germans in the Woods” online. In this animated documentary, 86-year-old World War II veteran Joseph Robertson remembers a German soldier he killed at the Battle of the Bulge. Produced in collaboration with national oral history project StoryCorps.
Original artwork from the film is available at our brand new online [...]
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 [...]
