MY ANIMATED FAMILY
Ages 16-29
Winter 2023, JHU-MICA Film Centre
In this workshop, student fellows will explore and reimagine family life though animation. “Family” might be traditional or nontraditional, made up of relatives, neighbors, friends, animals, teammates, classmates, or any combination. Through in-class exercises and group discussion, fellows will consider how their families were formed, what makes them unique, what challenges them, and what holds them together. They’ll choose a memorable episode that shows who their family really is and create a short, hand-drawn animation, adding recorded audio of real voices and ambient sound, as well as music and sound effects. Using Adobe Animate, fellows will experiment with body and facial movement, and with lip-syncing, learning techniques for delivering their characters’ special ways of moving and speaking. Fellow work will be shared through a public exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 9 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.
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.
