Graduated! Reel Posting Time

Contains work spanning three years of my education at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Demo Reel, Spring 2013 from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Mind the Edge Update

http://jeffmoricethesis.blogspot.com/ is no more.

To better unify my film's web presence, I've made a new URL, incorporating the title:
http://theprinceofmargo.blogspot.com/

Pitch Assignment - Time Traveller - Motion Test

I won't provide much backstory on this. It's simply a satisfying test.


Pitch - Motion Test from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Long Time No Post ...

... Partly because I've been working on my senior film this whole time, and partly because it is only now that I have an elective assigning me work. I wasted a whole semester on a "studio elective" that stretched the definition of the term in the sense that we were assigned no studio work.

But hey! Look at this!


Kinetic Kosher Hot Dogs from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

I have one year to make a film about anything I want!

City Silhouette from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Check out Mind the Edge, the home of my thesis project! Over the next year, this blog will display the most recent progress on my Senior Film.

My film is about a researcher insistent upon exploring the white nothingness above which her city is suspended. The overcrowded vertical cityscape is crumbling under its own weight. If Udel cannot discover a solution in the nothingness below, further construction in the upper extremities may just cause the entire city to plunge into the mysterious depths.

Blacksheep 2012

We had an awesome showing this year at the annual Blacksheep Animation Festival here at KCAI. We got nearly the entire Junior class to pull together for this massive intro collaboration. This is among my favorite projects from this year.

Handheld Monster

I had the privilege of working with Alison Dixon on her thesis film this year. I'm very happy with how it turned out and very happy for her.

Handheld Monster from Alison Dixon on Vimeo

Three Ways

Three Ways from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Cascade

Cascade from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

My Year with the Blue Guy - Maya Projects

My Year with the Blue Guy from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

A Virtual Reality

One of my topics of interest this semester was Virtual Reality. That itself is a nebulous term, a fact which I exploited heavily. As my first of three interpretations of the phrase, I created a piece of writing detailing a specific virtual space.

This game environment (located after the jump) is my second interpretation. It is extremely limited. I spent a solid month on it, which amounts to very little, even if I had had a team at my disposal.

However, the game has been causing my blog to take up too much memory upon loading. Feel free to play it after the jump.

There you can also find my original writing. The game environment is not a direct interpretation of the text.

More Fun Stuff! - Ike

Ike from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

A quick little diddy I carried out this weekend.

Character Design - Craig Yamamoto
Modeling, Rigging, Animation - Jeff Morice

Gnome cycle, just for fun - Francois

Gnome Cycle from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Lipsync Interview [vector]

Lipsync Interview [Vector] from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Sound Image Collab [update]

Sound Image Collab [update] from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Street Magician

Character notes after the jump:

Lipsync Interview [pencil]

Lipsync Interview [pencil] from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Collaboration

Sound and Image Collaboration from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Sound: Rhianna James and Ryan Comiskey
Animation: Jeff Morice and Paul Kisling

I did things this summer. I promise!

... Maybe not the scores of things I set out to do, but still. For instance, I did not investigate the Maya interface. In fact, I took one look at it and closed the window. I did watch a lot of Star Trek. Naturally, I wanted to model my own space ship, but in blender, not Maya. Then I figured out that I could attach key commands to the ship and fly it around the game engine! So cool. Then I strapped on a torpedo launch command and a spot light and BAM, video game (very modest, barely functional video game, mind you). But what is a ship without an environment to fly in or baddies to shoot? Don't have much on the environment end, but I did make a drone type guy (or glorified turret) to fly around and chase after my poor shuttle. AND he explodes when the torpedoes hit him.

What will I do with this, you ask? Nothing. Go back to school and do real things, that's what. Whet my appetite for 3D animation though, so that's good.

Shuttle game clip from Jeff Morice on Vimeo


Shuttle game drone from Jeff Morice on Vimeo

Two Figures, Spring 2011 Final

Two Figures from Jeff Morice on Vimeo