Karlee Morse (BA \u201911) wasn\u2019t sure at first what she wanted to do when she graduated from Brock University.<\/p>\n
But the Brock alumna has clearly found her calling having won a Daytime Emmy last month for Outstanding Special Effects Costume, Makeup and Hairstyling for her work on an episode of the children\u2019s show Dino Dana<\/em>.<\/p>\n Morse worked with a team of three artists to transform four actors into dinosaurs for the episode of Dino Dana<\/em>. Working from CGI illustrations and the costume design by Christine Toye, Morse seamlessly transformed the actors.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just amazing,\u201d she said of her win. \u201cTruthfully it was really hard. It was a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n Morse started her career in film and television as an assistant for the art department on a production called Android<\/em> produced by Sinking Ship, the same company that produced Dino Dana<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom there, I just made connections and once I started focussing on prosthetic work, they brought me in to do some specific episodes,” she said.<\/p>\n Morse didn\u2019t plan on working in special effects make up while she was completing her combined major in Visual Arts and Interactive Arts and Science.<\/p>\n \u201cI kind of fell into it,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to do concept work for video games, but I realized I\u2019m not content working on the computer for more than an hour. I thought about it and the happiest I was when I was working in the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n Morse said she loved working in Brock\u2019s painting studio and sculpture classes.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so thrilled for Karlee,” said Donna Szoke, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, who taught Morse at Brock. \u201cShe has always had a deep love of drawing. Film makeup and special effects makeup is such a wonderful continuation of her lifelong pursuit of drawing and sculpting.”<\/p>\n After her time at the University, Morse went on to do Sheridan\u2019s special effects makeup program, where she now teaches.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t realize this was a career at all,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like painting, but on people\u2019s faces. It\u2019s like sculpting, but on a living model.\u201d<\/p>\n Morse finds herself working in the video game industry from a different perspective than she had originally thought. As a makeup artist, she does life casting\u2014 making casts of actors\u2019 body parts \u2014 and placing motion capture markers on actors for game giant Ubisoft.<\/p>\n Morse has worked on Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey, Far Cry 5, and the newly released Far Cry 6.<\/p>\n \u201cMy favourite part of this career is that every day is vastly different,\u201d said Morse. \u201cI usually have multiple things on the go and it\u2019s just fun. I get to go to cool places, meet people and do cool things.\u201d<\/p>\n Morse has stayed connected with her passion for sculpture and is currently working on some custom sculptures for a corporate client. She sculpts in oil-based clay, then makes a silicon mold and casts the sculpture in resin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karlee Morse (BA \u201911) wasn\u2019t sure at first what she wanted to do when she graduated from Brock University. But the Brock alumna has clearly found her calling having won a Daytime Emmy last month for Outstanding Special Effects Costume, Makeup and Hairstyling for her work on an episode of the children\u2019s show Dino Dana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":67292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,7,3319,4052,37,1,4],"tags":[9305,263,480,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67293,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290\/revisions\/67293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}