There Will Come Soft Rains (From the Short Story by Ray Bradbury)

This was my final project for my intermediate animation class, and one of the first of many animations to come on this channel(hopefully). Ray Bradbury is an author who I marvel at for being so creative and innovative for his time, essentially being a major contributor to modern science fiction. I hope you all enjoy my interpretation of his wonderful story!

[@directinggigi]

This is really great. I just wish you hadn't missed the detail about the silhouettes of the family burnt into the side of the house.

[@mark_speranzart]

Thank you! I actually had planned to include a lot more of the story in the animation (including that scene, which is in my storyboard), but had to cut a lot of it so I could make the deadline.

[@julietparry6688]

@@mark_speranzart maybe one day you can. Today this bittersweet to watch. Best wishes. It is excellent.

[@Nfinety8]

You again?

[@riddhijain3046]

​@@mark_speranzart please make an anime of this chapter with detailing.. 10 to 15 mins video. I think all ISC students will love to watch as this chapter is coming in our board exams..

[@alliyah2276]

so the house is one big Alexa?

[@noahd1450]

always has been

[@isayeeealottoannoypeople1063]

*Y E S*

[@steelcladCompliant]

Yeah but Bradbury wrote this in the 50s. He KNEW something 👀

[@gitanjali5775]

Fsss

[@SirMKeehl]

This is my favorite story by Ray Bradbury. The animation depicted the story in a new way, and the animation style was adorable. 8/8

[@mark_speranzart]

Hey, this is weird, but uh wow I can't believe this has hit 100,000 views! I never would've thought any piece of art I shared would've gained as much attention as this has gotten. I'm so thankful to everyone who has seen this, been moved by it and shared their thoughts and criticisms on it! It feels like a lifetime ago now that I've worked on this and I feel like I've grown so much as an artist an animator since then. My output on this channel is extremely slow, but now more than ever am I motivated to making the most of it. Again, thank you all for watching, liking, disliking, commenting and interacting in any way! And as an artist, I'll keep on creating and loving it. I hope all you artists out there will keep doing the same!

[@joyebtanbeer1898]

Nice animation!! Well it's part of isc syllabus so maybe many people come to see as animation for the text.

[@saisaravanan5335]

I loved the way interpreted each scene. the animation is gorgeous and the depiction is disturbingly beautiful as it should be. the absence of any music except the sounds of the machine adds to the atmosphere of the entire thing. It makes the absence of organic life felt. I began to recall the excerpts from the book as each scene unfolded. there will come soft rains is one of my favourite books due to its clever writing and disturbing tone I am very grateful to you for animating it. I wish you prosperity in your career

[@Kids_Scissors]

I remember reading this in my scifi literature class. Its so cool to see it animated like this! This captures the haunting feeling of the original story very well. Though I feel it hits harder when you realize that this house has been abandoned for a very long time and has been performing the same routine for years, despite nobody inhabiting the house say for a deceased dog and some flies

[@keatonrenick1848]

The off tune jack in the box jingle near the end really set a nice atmosphere, 10/10!

[@megalisa830bright6]

It's not a jack-in-the-box toy, it's just a musical box! XD

[@Bucket_Theman]

Hey man, u might not ever see this, but your video is a fond part of my childhood, and a lot of others, any time we covered this poem a teacher would put on your video. Thanks man

[@mark_speranzart]

Comments like yours are reminders as to why I do this stuff in the first place. It really warms my heart to hear you say all of this and I am absolutely honored to have made such an impact on your life. Thank you for watching, friend.

[@mousebyte94]

This video comes up when I Google the story. Great job, hope more will experience your work.

[@ethanthevictorianrailfan7030]

Currently looking at this short story for English in year 9 and this animation really helping me get a good mark! I love the animation and its produced really well! Great job and i hope you passed on the assignment for it, you certainly deserve to!

[@orrins8554]

damn I be getting emotional over a house

[@alexafrechette3780]

Hello! My 10th grade ELA class really enjoyed your animation after we read the story! It was great to see you bring this to life. I will look out for any future literary adaptations of yours. We loved the sounds you used and the animals in the nursery were exactly as I pictured it. We also want to know if you will make any longer works. You are talented and we appreciate you.

[@mark_speranzart]

Thank you very much for the kind words! I'm absolutely honored you chose my animation for your class! Currently, I'm not working on any animations based on literature, but I'm very open to it in the future!

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

Funny!!!!! I read this in 10th grade myself as an assignment! LOL.

[@sdball]

Great work and great interpretation of one of my favorite stories - thank you for sharing, and I hope that you go to ever greater heights with your animation.

[@mark_speranzart]

Thank you so much for the kind words and support!

[@cainotconnie1673]

Very eerie......I love it

[@MagnaRose-km3rr]

Such good animating!!! We watched it for our English class and my whole class loved it. :)

[@alissa2733]

Im doing a project for this and wow this just tops it all off with a neat little bow.

[@mark_speranzart]

Thanks so much! I hope your project goes well!

[@Lmao6pq]

I loved this was shown it in English as an example, and the whole class loved it, the only part a few people would improve was the final line from the clock as the house burnt down, but apart from that it was amazing

[@josephzeh8600]

you did a great job telling the story with little voice work. A++. another A+ for the sad but pg style for the dog..

[@MrSvbb]

Fallout world describes how world will be,harsh,cold,sencless, robotized.... If we don't wake up and realize, technology will destroy every trace of humanity

[@yeethittter1285]

I like the style and you did a good job on the animation 👌👌👌 My only nitpick is that it went by a bit too fast while I think a reason the original is so good is because it set things up slowly. Like the dog, it just sorta showed up out of nowhere so it wasn't as impactful. Otherwise a very nice job!

[@AxolinaAxolotl]

holy jesus i found you again did you change ur username

[@yeethittter1285]

@@AxolinaAxolotl Yes people kept calling me Hitler, unlike you dear friend who has never previously met me

[@bejeweldkwkwk8678]

Thank u! This helped me picture it in my head for a class essay I have to do

[@lifewuzonceezr]

Neato! thanks! Wonderful Job!

[@OmegaWolf747]

Bradbury was a genius.

[@dasteakinator7064]

Who else is too lazy to read the actual story and just came to this vid

[@KrazyKaiser]

My comment, for context, is comparing this to both the original text by Ray Bradbury AND (almost more importantly) the soviet animated adaption from 1984: I like the specific ways you remained faithful to the text; the electronic mice and the projected lion, giraffe, and antelope.

[@bananaman1439]

The mice need to pick up the slack if they didn't already clean up the dog corpse.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Could’ve died recently.

[@rudrachangani3684]

Its a very good story and one of my favourite story and it also have Alexa inbuilt in it

[@Ton369]

Siri will be the last human voice on earth. I'm cool with it.

[@The_Cooler_Will]

Heartbreaking

[@xoxo.kaleen961]

Why is this low key creepy lmaooo

[@kostyapolykova9879]

You ever read the story?

[@gitanjali5775]

This is a last message to the world

[@loopy_jetser4186]

We were reading it and she made us watch this first, I’m glad she did but I’m still sad about the dog

[@raidgens8839]

Thanks for helping me with my 8th grade essay!!!!!

[@caroshansuei]

❤

[@sarmistha012]

I wish you wouldn't have missed the silhouettes of the family on the wall

[@skydog0_038]

I've watched this video for english class because we watched a video together telling the story, and we watched this after

[@cralixthegameking4408]

It never even showed the sioetes in the paint

[@LassieFarm]

I read this story on my channel. But yours is much more efficient in the telling 👍

[@_samantha01]

This is so good! you did well!

[@mark_speranzart]

Thank you!

[@lisaspikes4291]

This is not how I imagined it when I read it, but nonetheless, I liked it!

[@Helllllogoooo]

This was made on my birthday lol.

[@kostyapolykova9879]

Uploaded

[@riddhijain3046]

@mark_speranzart please make an anime of this chapter with detailing.. 10 to 15 mins video. I think all ISC students will love to watch as this chapter is coming in our board exams..

[@pepijn23]

Have you ever seen that part in fallout 3 where a mr handy robot recites the same poem to the skeletal remains of a child?

[@stephenbacon8900]

This is a great old radio story too- say are you ever interested in doing some animation for hire? We have a concept we need an animation to create a short video. Interested let me know here.

[@American_freedom]

War. War never changes…

[@Meowerenchan]

This story is in ISC syllabus of class 12

[@dominicramirez2127]

Why am I seeing this for homework ???

[@afsanajim65]

Same sameeee

[@leaperron5260]

Me too! It’s so dark!

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

I remember when I read the poem when I was in 10th grade and watched this as an assignment, and when I first read it I had a weird gut feeling that something like this is real and it may happen. I'm a Christian, and I know there is a rapture going to happen where a lot of us won't be on this earth. Looking at the world from then to now, the way we are heading and the fact that we have this AI stuff and WW3 on the horizon, and being 3 years until 2026, I can see things unfolding before my eyes. The poems seems to be getting more real everyday. I don't know about y'all but Imma keep my eyes on everything.

[@cScottD]

Nicely done!

[@allisonkhan5280]

Thank you!

[@telmintor2810]

this music gave me halloween kills vibe

[@mackenziedelisle1102]

Pretty good!

[@alejoleonoff3804]

good video

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

Work on your pacing. Sometimes letting an image sit can be much more powerful than rushing to the next thing. When you hold on a specific image, what you're communicating to the audience (subconsciously) is "You are GOING to see this. I don't care that it makes you uncomfortable, I WANT you to be uncomfortable." That sort of intentional lingering is the sort of pacing that the original short story did so well in text. The text communicates this by having all the machines attempt to continue following a normal daily routine to ZERO living response until the real horror of the situation is fully realized. In animation, you can communicate this by hanging on an image. Slow down the animation, add keyframes to force the payoff right up to the edge of the cliff, make the action more deliberate and meaningful, and hang on the frames where you know your audience is anxious to see the next thing. As it is, it just kind of shows the machines acting "normal" and then suddenly everything is on fire. Show us how we got there, build up to it, create that suspense by showing the progression and hanging during moments of suspense. "Stretch and squash" the timing, not just the pictures. Still good, keep at it. Pacing is probably the hardest thing to master for film or animation. The ability to understand and communicate very deliberate pacing is what makes Tartakovsky a genius, and that's the sort of pacing this short needs. You could honestly fix most of this with regular editing and very little actual animation changes.

[@dominicramirez2127]

RETUUUUUUURBIOOOOOOO

[@nourmohamed5587]

There is a message behind this story but I don’t seem to understand it . English isn’t my first language and I think that’s why I might have found it difficult to understand it . Can anyone explain it ?

[@ShuTheIdiot]

The original story its a tale of how the world doesn't care if we all disappear thanks to nuclear hellfire it'll just go on. The story played from the role of the house that autonomously works as an AI to maintain "family" life only the ai doesn't realise everyone is dead.

[@nourmohamed5587]

@@ShuTheIdiot thanks

[@mrdiab3269]

Now check out this alternate version from the 80s 😀 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a32xeYywbZ6mhMU

[@younisghanden8847]

😢

[@caroshansuei]

Los animales corruptos eran mi pesadilla 😮

[@Lily-ld8bc]

Ok

[@DuchessSensei]

I didn't even know that this story is fucked uo

[@Otokichi786]

Grade: Incomplete. (Where are the residents of the house?)

[@AlexPow0]

LOL.

[@LiaPlayss]

They died in a neucular bomb.every human died.this is the only house remaining

[@ZacharyTheRealOne]

This shit will give me fucking nightmare

[@bonky2023]

creepy

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Interesting, though i prefer the soviet/uzbek cartoon.

[@brownbean3057]

I'd say the animation is more advanced than intermediate

[@sskiller7217]

ciao alexa fammi i compiti di inglese grazie :)

[@ragenrtic8196]

IM UR 30

[@JayKabin]

wtf

[@gointhruit9704]

wtf this is scary😗

[@KneeCapHill]

The one made in the 80s was better than this wtf