Olympia Martin Animation for Media

 Through a series of illustrations and text, Aufero Dolori explores a scenario where trauma can be surgically removed from the body. A nameless protagonist is shown undergoing the surgery in the aftermath of the apocalypse, the morality and consequences of this condition are left open. I choose animation as the medium for this project because I wanted to be able to draw each detail of it myself. The process of creating each frame by hand in the program Clip Studio Paint felt akin to how the fictionalized Aufero Dolori surgery would let an individual have nearly perfect control over how they interpreted their past, thus molding their own mentality to their liking. I found myself mimicking the idea of control that I was exploring through the protagonist through my own conduction of the work.  

Takeshi Murata

Takeshi Murata’s Om Rider is a genre-bending, high energy colorful yet dark 3D animated short film centered in a tropical wasteland . He combines tropes such as film noir, sci fi, and italian giallo. His main character the wolf occupies a rebellious space, and embodies the rebellious composition of the video in of itself, his counterpart being a conservatively dressed old man. The protagonists treks the desert on his motorbike and to compose edm music in the desert, his high octane movements contrast the stillness of the man. Through relatively new forms of media, 3D animation and EDM, Murata explores ideas of old and new values.

Jacolby Satterwhite

In Jacolby Satterwhite’s Reifying Desire, he creates new identities while simultaneously combing his own life into his narrative through his mother’s illustrations. Satterwhite transcends a single medium of animation, in his world the characters and the world are rendered in viscous 3D renders while simultaneous occur the line drawings.  

Satterwhite explores politics and the black body, he combines a love letter to his mother and his past self with afrofuturism and 90’s inspired game graphics. In as diverse and complex of the different mediums, Satterwhite experts conducts a symphony of personal trauma and Sci Fi imagery, he choreographs his catharsis through a cinematic epic.