With Child Psychologist Gary Mackay
Francis Will Eaton
Additional Animation Elroy Simmons
Camera David Raedeker
Sound Recordists Hugh Mitchell-Dawson & Tracey Ladlow
Sound Design & Mix Byron Blake
Online Editor Todd Downing
A film by Let Me Feel Your Finger First

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character.

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist.

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses. As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character.

Character animation by Let Me Feel Your Finger First and Elroy Simmons. Ink drawings scanned and coloured in Photoshop. Sequences animated in After Effects.