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- How does a rainbow form?
Risograph print explainer · 33 seconds · English
How does a rainbow form?
A 33-second science explainer in a Risograph print style. Dot the raindrop shows how white sunlight splits into colours inside a raindrop, and why you only see a rainbow with the sun behind you.
- The brief
- “How does a rainbow form?”
- Style
- Risograph print
- Length and frame
- 33 seconds · 16:9
- Made for
- Lessons and courses
How it was made.
The whole brief was one question. The director wrote the script, designed Dot the raindrop as the guide, and drew every frame in fluorescent spot inks with halftone dots and slight misregistration.
It cost $6.88 of model spend to make, and it is the film the landing page walks through step by step: brief, storyboard, painting, critic, export.
Every Explainers film is made the same way: one sentence in, a storyboard you approve, then the director paints, voices, scores and animates it, and a critic model grades the cut before you see it.
Transcript
- Sunlight looks white, but it's hiding something.
- It's every colour, travelling together.
- Slip it into a raindrop, and it bends.
- Each colour bends a little differently, so they fan apart.
- It bounces off the back and comes out split.
- Millions of drops, each sending you one colour.
- Sun behind you, rain ahead.
- That's a rainbow.
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