AQUA DOME

Aqua Dome is a collaborative animated dome-film and artwork. Working with over 150 collaborators across disciplines and age groups, Aqua Dome combines mixed-media stop motion animation and animated kaleidoscopic collage video projection with an immersive soundscape in four movements. Aqua Dome was conceived of and directed by COFAC faculty Lynn Tomlinson (EMF), Zoe Friedman (Art + Design) and Elsa Lankford (EMF). It is edited by Kat Navarro (Baltimore School for the Arts). The first public screening will be projected in the Watson King Planetarium, kindly facilitated by Professor Alex Storrs in Astronomy. Multi-disciplinary in nature, Aqua Dome was selected for Towson’s College of Fine Art and Communication’s first CoLAB project grant.

AQUA DOME was featured on pages 4 & 5 in Spring 2019 COFAC Today, the magazine of the College of Fine Art and Communication at Towson University. READ IT HERE.

The Book of Speculation Trailer is complete and online!

Erika Swyler's book is perfect summer reading! I was honored to create the book trailer.

The Book of Speculation Trailer

I am thrilled to be animating a book trailer for a forthcoming novel, The Book of Speculation, by Erika Swyler, coming out in mid-June from St. Martin's Press.

The Plus Paper

On April 9, The Ballad of Holland Island House is featured on The Plus Paper, a new bilingual English/Chinese online magazine showcasing works done by innovative artists and designers from around the globe. I am ESPECIALLY excited to see right in the side-bar, the work of my talented former student, former Memory Tricks! collaborator, and current google-doodler Olivia Huynh. I know I'm in good company!

“I like walking along the border between fiction and documentary, using animation to combine the two.”

— Lynn Tomlinson, interviewed by The Plus Magazine

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My clay palette and image as I animated "The Crab Eaters" scene.

The Ballad of Holland Island House

On March 25, 2015 The Ballad of Holland Island House screened in the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol as the winner of Greenpeace's Postcards from Climate Change contest.

This also represents the film's online debut.  It will be streaming on Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook on March 26 - spread the word!

"Greenpeace USA is excited to announce the winners from the first Postcards from Climate Change Student Film Contest.  Our goal was to reward and showcase the best short films on local climate change stories from student filmmakers  across the United States.   We received over 500 entries and are proud to recognize these top films, chosen by our esteemed judges."

Ballad of Holland Island House by Lynn Tomlinson- 1st Place Winner

Here are the judges' comments:

"The one that rises to the top for us is the Ballad of the Holland Island House. -- A totally mesmerizing, thoughtful and immersive piece that relies on emotion to make clear the consequence of inaction. Can watch it over and over again!"

-Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (Trouble the Water)

The originality of Tomlinson's voice, vision and POV is captivating from the first to last frame. The integrity of her art-animation, tone, pacing, score and soulful resonance of the storyteller's voice made the environmental messaging of the story resonate with this viewer, while also impressing as a stand alone piece of art. I wish we saw more of this artful approach to environmental topics.

-Chico Colvard (Family Affair)

This short film is beautiful and a masterful work of art – and not just the art of film, but the original music and the painting and motion graphics. From a content perspective with regard to climate change, I thought it was actually very effective to not hit the audience over the head with the climate change reference – it was a sad, emotional story about life changing as the seas rise, and I can see it being effective as an emotional appeal even for those who are not necessarily thinking about climate change

-Caty Borum Chattoo (American University Center for Media & Social Impact)

The Ballad of Holland Island House is screening and winning awards at a number of festivals and events.  Updates are regularly posted on the film's Facebook page.

St. Mary's College Artists Residency

In the first two weeks of April, 2014, I stayed at the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Southern Maryland. During my residency, I spoke about my work and led a stop-motion animation workshop. I also worked intensively on an animated short, using painterly clay-on-glass animation. The film will be the story of the last house on Holland Island, an island in the Chesapeake Bay that is sinking.