PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION: A BALTIMORE CARTOON
Ages 16-29
Winter 2022, JHU-MICA Film Centre
This workshop will offer opportunities for both new and more experienced animators to gain and refine skills, while crafting uniquely Baltimore cartoons. Squash and stretch, anticipation, staging, pose to pose, follow through, slow in/slow out, timing, exaggeration, secondary action, and solid drawing are some basic principles student fellows will learn, along with characterization and narrative design for effective storytelling. Possibilities for story material might include artistic journeys, family histories, or formative personal or professional experiences, all grounded in Baltimore settings and styles. They’ll work with Adobe Animate and create soundtracks with sound effects and music. Their animations will be shared at a virtual screening and on the program website. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Alfonzer Harvin is a graduate of the Screenwriting and Animation program (SWAN) at Morgan State University. He is Media Specialist and Web Designer at NorthBay Education Inc., and has created animations for Comcast and the Baltimore Parking Authority. He is skilled in all phases of production, and believes that knowledge is all we need to change the world.
Alisha Mona'e Coates graduated from Morgan State University with a B.S in Multi-Platform Media Production. A BYFA participant since 2016, she started her photography career at Edmondson Westside, and hopes to eventually open an art/photography studio.
Kerstyn Myers is a member in the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society at UMBC, where she is pursuing computer science. She believes technology and art are the connections to the future.
