Jury Members
2022 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Lynn Tomlinson
Lynn Tomlinson is an award-winning director of animated short films. She animates moving clay paintings that transform and shift perspectives. Her work explores environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity's impact. Her work has screened around the world, from Ann Arbor to Annecy, Hiroshima to Hollywood. Her award-winning films include The Ballad of Holland Island House (2014), The Elephant's Song (2018), and Ten Degrees of Strange (2021). She is Associate Professor Electronic Media and Film Department at Towson University, where she is currently researching the development of an interdisciplinary immersive fulldome production lab.
Adam Davies
Adam Davies is an artist and stop-motion animator living in Baltimore, MD. He fell in love with animation when he found that it voiced his stupid sense of humor and dread. His work has screened and won awards in festivals around the world. Wild Life, his most recent labor of love, is a 2D-animated, post-apocalyptic zoo series about animal friends just trying to survive and it was SyFy's first internally-developed animated show picked up to series (streaming now on Peacock!).
Ismael Sanz-Pena
Ismael Sanz-Pena is an animaton filmmaker currently living in Baltimore, MD. After receiving his Postgraduate Diploma in Character Animation at Central Saint Martins London he moved to Los Angeles to study Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Ismael has since worked on music videos, commercials, promotional videos and independent films across the globe. Among other screenings his work has been exhibited in the National Gallery London, Annecy, Hiroshima, Zagreb, Ottawa and Questors Theatre, the largest community theatre in Europe.
Eric Dyer
Eric Dyer is internationally recognized as a leading practitioner in the animated arts avant-garde. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Grantee, and Guggenheim Fellow; while his films have won numerous awards, including Best Animated Film and Best Experimental Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Jury’s Choice, Jury’s Citation, and Director’s Choice awards at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Dyer has been a visiting artist at world-class institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles, USA), and the Royal College of Art (London, UK). His films and interactive animated sculptures have been widely exhibited at prestigious international events and venues such as the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Ars Electronica (Austria), Tabakalera (Spain), ARoS Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), the screens of Times Square (New York City), and at the Cairo and Venice Biennales. The importance of Dyer's work has also been recognized in leading academic books in the discipline of Animation Studies, including: Re- imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image (Bloomsbury); Pervasive Animation (Routledge); Animation: A World History (Routledge); The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value (Palgrave); Art Journal (CAA publications); and A New History of Animation (Thames & Hudson). His talk on TED.com, The Forgotten Art of the Zoetrope [go.ted.com/ericdyer] communicated his art practice to the general public and has been viewed over 1.1 million times. He teaches at UMBC in Baltimore and is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City.