about the author: animation first draft

draft 1 from Molly Fairhurst on Vimeo.

As a first draft I'm quite pleased with how the sting has turned out, but some notable points I'm concerned with are

• timing with the music- it isn't wholly smooth and that interrupts the viewer a little
• smoothness of the animation itself- the scene with the flying hands looks a little odd as they're obviously static images, though I'm not sure how to get around this whilst using After Effects
• the cat at the end is off centre but not enough so to be a deliberate composition point and this is distracting
• I'm wondering if the word "Murakami" needs to appear at the end to tie together the odd letters and make it make more sense as a documentary advert sting. Still, the strangeness adds to the Murakami feeling.

But I'm satisfied with my use of motifs and odd surreal imagery to communicate the darker feeling of Murakami I wanted to get across. The textures I used won't necessarily match the prints as I will be using lino printing as my method, but using digital media gives me the scope to create things I wouldn't have been able to create in print making and I think this is a good opportunity to use- whilst also making sure the imagery and colour style stay similar enough for them to work as a set.