Lynn Tomlinson is an award-winning animation director and Associate Professor at Towson University, where she is developing an interdisciplinary fulldome production lab. (Full bio: https://umbc.app.box.com/s/7m5akgvwsmxayvvm3fnnglugwiqwdsnf)

At Towson University outside Baltimore, Associate Professor Lynn Tomlinson has been exploring the interdisciplinary and creative potential for collaborating in fulldome production. Her first project was "AquaDome." Premiering to a series of full-house screenings in December 2018 in Towson University's planetarium, Aqua Dome was a collaborative animated dome-film and artwork. Created by over 150 collaborators across disciplines and age groups, Aqua Dome combined mixed-media stop motion animation and animated kaleidoscopic collage video projection with an immersive soundscape in four movements.

Aqua Dome was conceived and directed by faculty members Lynn Tomlinson (VFX), and Elsa Lankford (Audio) from the Electronic Media and Film Department, and Zoe Friedman from the Art Department. It was composited by Kat Navarro, an MFA candidate and teacher at Baltimore School for the Arts, who led her high school students in the creation of animation for the project. Multi-disciplinary in nature, "Aqua Dome" was selected for Towson’s College of Fine Art and Communication’s first CoLAB project grant. For next project, A Trip to the Moon, inspired by Georges Méliès, a section Visual Effects students worked with audio students on a short fulldome film.

In 2020, supported by a Faculty Development grant, Lynn Tomlinson worked with an undergraduate research assistant on a fulldome project inspired by Claude Monet's interest immersive artworks. In the spring of 2020, "Reverie de Giverny" was completed as a VR 360 film, because of COVID restrictions. The fulldome version of this film is still in production. Most recently, Tomlinson and her collaborator, Planetarium Director Christian Ready, received a grant to create a fulldome film on the interdisciplinary subject "Light and Color." They are currently building an interdisciplinary production team for this new project. (10 minutes)