Lynn Tomlinson is Assistant Professor at Towson University outside Baltimore, Maryland. Before coming to Towson, Tomlinson taught at Cornell, MICA, University of the Arts, and Delaware College of Art and Design. She has led workshops and lectured at many universities including University of Michigan, Bennington College, Tainan National University of the Arts, Pratt, Bowling Green State University, Cornell, James Madison, Sarah Lawrence, Northern Vermont University, and the University of the Arts.
Tomlinson joined the faculty at Towson University's Electronic Media and Film Department in 2014. She received two Innovation in Teaching Awards from Towson University's Office of Academic Innovation and the inaugural COFAC CoLab grant for AquaDome (2018), a collaborative planetarium dome film created by over 100 students and faculty participants. Her current creative research project is an animated full-dome film inspired by Monet’s water lilies, supported by a Towson University Faculty Development and Research Committee Grant.
AQUA DOME featured in the 2019 Spring edition of COFAC Today, the magazine of the College of Fine Art and Communication at Towson University.
Samples of student work 2002-2015:
The blend tool in Maya is a great way to make a slider you can use to metamorphose your model from one shape to another. Here I use it for lip sync and eye blinks.
A MICA student project made in one of my Character Animation courses. Looking at the film Revolver and early 1920's animation as guides, students designed complex cycles. We used a surrealist method of a random word generator to come up with two specific nouns (chicken and rubbish) and a concept (gravity). All students had to use two of these in their solution. Students all designed ideas for a main character, and we voted - selecting the alligator with bow-tie as the main subject of the film. Complex cycles have a repeated action with an accent that adds interest.
Collaborative stop-motion exercise, Cornell Summer 2011
A class assignment from my 2004 Summer Animation Workshop at Cornell University. Literally self-explanatory!
Object animation made by the Cornell Summer Session Animation class FILM 3250.
Using audio from an old radio show called "The Strange Dr. Weird," thanks to Archive.org, MICA students in 2-D Character Animation created lip-sync animation projects, playing with the over-the-top voice recording.
