For Harrison Killian, a sixteen year old student in the High School Equivalency Program at Sullivan BOCES, the Arts have been a driving force behind his passion and ability to make his mark in the Stop-motion Animation/Film Industry.

Harrison first got interested in movies when he was a small boy playing with his brother in the backyard creating movies. By the time Harrison was nine; he was playing in a band and writing short stories. When he was 12, he started working with a camera and using still shots to create his first short clip about Red Bull. At age 15, Harrison got involved with stop-motion, making his own sets, writing his own storylines and creating his own characters out of clay. His bedroom is his move set. This is where …show more content…
Harrison utilized a similar process using clay figures. One movement of a figure is made up a hundreds of images.

“The coolest thing about what I do is I’m using my artistic ability and my imagination. Really I’m just playing,” said Harrison, “When I create an artificial set I can make as realistic as I want. Although I spend all of my time working on sets and making movies, I just love it.”

Today at age 16, he has already published 14 Stop-motion Short movies and has received numerous awards for his work in Claymation.

Harrison recently won Best Animation at the LA Independent Film Festival Awards. In July, he will attend their red carpet ceremony to receive a trophy. He also won an animation award for his movie 'Stolen' from SUNY Sullivan's Fisher Film Festival.
In April, Harrison attended the Arkansas Artist Lovers Extravaganza Conference (ALEC) where he presented a screening of one of his older films, ‘Portes de son Esprithis’ a tribute to Olivier de Sagazan. Although there were no awards presented at ALEC, he screened his film to professional film directors, editor, writers, actors and a musical score