WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME: COLLABORATIVE ANIMATION
Ages 16-29
Fall 2023, JHU-MICA Film Centre
In this workshop, student fellows will collaborate to create an animated community space populated by diverse, hand-drawn characters. As a group, fellows will choose between a barbershop, a corner store, and a coffee shop for their setting; then each fellow will design their own character, quirky and individual in personality, physical shape, style of movement, and voice; and finally fellows will develop a story to test and reveal their characters as they interact in the shared world. Fellows will inspire and challenge each other artistically, even as their characters navigate their virtual society. Fellows will review fundamentals, including story and character design, dialogue, audio recording, storyboarding, and illustration, while gaining proficiency in Adobe Animate. Their final project will be shared on the program website and at a public exhibition. 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.
