Rauch Brothers Animation is working in collaboration with StoryCorps to put many of the StoryCorps interviews onto the screen and creating a series of animated short films. Q & A is one of these films.
In February 2006, 12-year-old Joshua Littman interviewed his mother Sarah at StoryCorps. Joshua has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. Kids with Asperger’s have a tough time socially, and can have obsessions— for Joshua, it’s animals. Most StoryCorps participants use a list of suggested questions, but Joshua wrote his own. The conversation they provoked covered everything from cockroaches to Sarah’s feelings about him as a son.
Above is only a snippet of the film. Having worked with autistic kids for many years, I look forward to seeing the short in its entirety.
Previously on BC:
Teaching Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Link
Credits:
Starring: Quimby the Mouse - Link [wiki]
Story & Drawings: Chris Ware - Link [wiki]
Animation: John Kuramoto
Music: "Eugene" by Andrew Bird - Link
An Eye for Annai is a quite incredible animated short film put together by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues. Great story and great animation. The music ain't so bad either.
Previously on BlogCadre:
Snow-bo - Link
Kiwi! - Link
Our Wonderful Nature - Link
Snow-bo is a short animated film about a lonely boy who finds friendship when he discovers something frozen in a pond. Great animation with an unexpected ending...
Snow-bo was created by Jenn Kluska and Vera Brosgol
Other animated shorts previously on BlogCadre:
Our Wonderful Nature - Link
Kiwi! - Link
Our Wonderful Nature is a short animated film about the mating habits of the water shrew. Warning: this film contains animated, animal violence and sex. Enjoy.
Credits: Directed by: Tomer Eshed Animation: Tomer Eshed, Dennis Rettkowski Sound: David Ziegler Music: Stefan Maria Schneider
Here is an animated mockumentary that omaggs2000 put together explaining the history of evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day. If you don't enjoy the story, you will enjoy the animation. Link.
A couple weeks ago, one of the paste-up tables here at work was filled with hundreds of t-shirts. They were mostly identical, except that each one had a slightly different stencil on it, and some had the bottoms removed or a hole punched in them. I've been curious what they were doing.
It turns out that they were making a stop-motion, flipbook-style commercial for Erberts and Gerberts. Each frame of the video is on a seperate t-shirt, and the model wore each t-shirt successively, filmed by a normal mini-dv camera. When the video is digitally sped up, you get a nifty animation.
The folks who were working on this were cool enough to film the whole process of making the video. You can see the production process and maybe spend a weekend making a stop motion video of your own.
Our Wonderful Nature is a short animated film about the mating habits of the water shrew. Warning: this film contains animated, animal violence and sex. Enjoy.
Here is an animated mockumentary that 
Viewty put together a very cool flipbook animation with changing frame rates. 
