Private Project

Mountain Nocturne

Mountain Nocturne is a hand-crafted fulldome animation created with modeling clay, delicately manipulated frame by frame like a living oil painting. Set in the Colorado mountains at night, the film unfolds as a looping meditation on natural cycles—snow glimmers under moonlight, animals snooze in their dens, flames flicker and reflect, and the landscape breathes between winter and spring. In the dome’s darkness, shifting textures of clay evoke the quiet pulse of the mountains beneath the stars.

  • Lynn Tomlinson
    Director
    Ten Degrees of Strange, The Elephant's Song, The Ballad of Holland Island House, Our Coloful World, Ignite!
  • Craig Saper
    Producer
  • Lynn Tomlinson
    Producer
  • Slippy Buñuel
    Music
  • Emma Ayala
    Compositing
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 21, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Fulldome 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Lynn Tomlinson

Lynn Tomlinson is an award-winning animator and media artist known for her tactile, painterly approach to stop-motion animation. Working with oil-based clay, she crafts moving landscapes that pulse with texture and emotion. Her films often explore ecological interconnection and transformation through hand-made imagery and sound. Mountain Nocturne continues her investigation of natural cycles and the more-than-human world, expanding her practice into the immersive format of fulldome animation. Tomlinson’s work has been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums, and planetariums, and she teaches animation at Towson University in Maryland.

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Director Statement

After directing several collaborative fulldome animations, I wanted to explore the medium independently using my own clay-on-glass technique—to see how the tactile, expressive qualities of my previous shorts could expand into an immersive, hemispheric space. With Mountain Nocturne, I set out to bring my hand-crafted process to a panoramic scale, inspired by the delicate balance of natural cycles that humans both depend upon and disrupt.