News Release

Film animator to visit Stone Center,
speak to public Thursday (March 9)

CHAPEL HILL – A character animator who has worked on films including "The Matrix Reloaded" and "I, Robot" is coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to teach students about his craft.

Lyndon Barrois will be an artist in residence at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Monday through Thursday (March 6-9).

At 12:30 p.m. Thursday, he will host a discussion, free to the public, in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the center, located off South Road near the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower. Lunch will be provided. To register, call (919) 962-9001.

Barrois will meet with students in the departments of art and African and Afro-American studies and in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He also is scheduled to teach a class on basic animation techniques to students in the center’s Communiversity program, a series of after-school enrichment programs managed and run by student counselors for children ages 5 to 18.

Other films for which Barrois has created animation sequences include "The Matrix Revolutions," "Elektra," "Scooby Doo" and "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist." Call the Stone Center at (919) 962-9001 for more information.

The residency is sponsored by the following UNC units: the Stone Center, diversity incentive fund, Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, honors program, School of Journalism and Mass Communication and departments of art and African and Afro-American studies.

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Stone Center contact: Robin Vander, (919) 919-962-9001, vander@email.unc.edu

News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589