I listen to a decent amount of audiobooks and I’ll occasionally miss a one-off description of something important. I was wondering if there are projects to add a visual component to audiobooks? Official or fan-made it doesn’t matter. If it does exist what would I search for to find something like this?
Maybe a video with AI generated images and the listener is required to supply their own audiobook or something like that.
I feel like I have seen this done with the Bible several times.
Edit: It seems like the answer is no.
People have suggested movies, VNs, and point and click games but that’s more than what I am after. All I really want is something that accompanies the audio that can occasionally act as a quick reference. If you are still have trouble imagining what I am talking about think of an audio-only podcast that is uploaded to Youtube. They might add a photo in post to accompany what they are talking about but you can still enjoy it without the visual aspect.
I thought there might be a group of people on Youtube doing this with AI images or an audiobook publisher commissioning art to do this.
Can’t speak to anything in general but for anything related to Brandon Sanderson there’s coppermind.
Any time the narrator is describing an illustration I’ll look up the book art from there.
Otherwise I avoid it like the plague to avoid spoilers
The most I can think of are motion comics (with sound). They’re sort of in-between audio books and animation, mostly voice acting but sometimes also explaining a scene.
DC for example used to make them, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZjrOEs8Ss0
Looks like they went out of fashion though. A real shame, many of them had stellar voice acting and actually good production value.
I’ve seen a couple places offering what they’ll call something like “enhanced ebooks”
I admit that I haven’t given any of them a try, but the gist is that they’re an ebook with some extra multimedia content. It kind of looks like some places that do them do the absolute bare minimum to slap the “enhanced” label on them and just add some extra pictures and maps and such, and others go whole hog with added video, the full audio drama treatment with sound effects, different actors for the various characters, narration, etc. so some of them may potentially fill the role you’re looking for
One of (or both of?) The dudes from Mars Volta wrote a book that comes with both an accompanying audio reading of the book with music in the background, and an art book you’re meant to follow along with. I forgot what it’s called; one of my friends from years ago had it when he got super into the band. It’s pretty trippy though. IIRC, it’s like a tribute to one of their friends that had died.
Not what you are looking for but I remember on psp there was Metal Gear Solid “digital graphic novels”. Basically narrated comics
