How a Nearly All-Blind Team Created ‘The Penguin’ Audio Descriptions: ‘You Almost Get Chills’ How They Detail ‘So Much More Texture’

He looks ahead, his dark eyebrows overshadowing his dark eyes. One of his several gold teeth gleams in the dim light.

This is how Ren Leach describes Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell), also known as the iconic Batman villain The Penguin, in Max’s limited series of the same name.

“You almost get chills, like really envisioning the scene as we’re first introduced to this character,” says Naomi Waibel, SVP, global product management at Warner Bros. Discovery.

The show, itself a spinoff of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” features audio descriptions created by a team of nearly all-blind professionals. The streamer partnered with post-production company IDC for the project, leveraging

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