# animate! › Films › Francis by Let Me Feel Your Finger First › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, live action and animation, digital compositing, childhood, behaviour, observation, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Francis** a film by Let Me Feel Your Finger First

[Richard Squires](http://lmfyffproductions.com/)

in production

![Francis, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/francis01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

An account of the creation of a 10-year old ‘disturbed’ boy through drawings and video. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, he is subjected to quasi-scientific observation but the rational assessment becomes increasingly at odds with his behaviour…

### key credits

**director**
Let Me Feel Your Finger First

### Let Me Feel Your Finger First

#### short biography

Let Me Feel Your Finger First is a London-based comic art project set up in 1998 to disseminate comics, animations and web-based work. The animated short **Homo Zombies** has screened internationally and was released in 2005 on the European DVD compilation *Bloody Gays*. Forthcoming projects include **The Uncle Hans-Peter Party**, a LMFYFF live event coming in 2007.

June 2006

#### artist’s website

[Let Me Feel Your Finger First](https://web.archive.org/web/20061102002750/http://www.letmefeelyourfingerfirst.com/)

Let Me Feel Your Finger First website

### a film by Let Me Feel Your Finger First

### direction

**director**
Let Me Feel Your Finger First

© Let Me Feel Your Finger First 2006

[![Francis, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/francis01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/francis01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Francis, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/francis02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/francis02.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Francis, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/francis03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/francis03.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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### technical

#### process summary

Ink line drawings and video digitally combined

**Francis** film, stills and other materials © Let Me Feel Your Finger First 2006