The Rauch Brothers' latest short combines documentary audio of grown children remembering their Sunday school teacher with animation designed by Bill Wray.
I love this kind of work, mixing real life events with animation. All of the Rauch Brothers' work for Storycorps can be seen here and all of it is worth watching.
I do like most of the visuals, but I wonder what they actually add to the piece. To me, the audio could easily stand alone and I think you'd get the exact same experience out of it. If you're going to animate an accompanying piece to a clip like this, why not go further and add to the gags/important beats instead of depicting them so matter-of-factly? To me, at least, it took away from some of the humourous moments where I would've laughed along with them because visually it neutralized them.
Good work. I really enjoyed this.
ReplyDeleteI love their work, thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteI do like most of the visuals, but I wonder what they actually add to the piece. To me, the audio could easily stand alone and I think you'd get the exact same experience out of it. If you're going to animate an accompanying piece to a clip like this, why not go further and add to the gags/important beats instead of depicting them so matter-of-factly? To me, at least, it took away from some of the humourous moments where I would've laughed along with them because visually it neutralized them.
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