Jimmie Thomas Jr is a filmmaker and educator from Florida. He holds a BA in broadcast journalism from Florida A&M University and an MFA in filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His first film documentary, The Curators of Hip Hop: A Story of Independence, was screened at the Pan African Film Festival and All Three Coasts (A3C) Festival and later picked up by streaming platforms Amazon Prime and Kweli TV.
Animation Flight Simulation
A fighter jet fighting an alien ship
Medium: Animation
Year: 2025
[VR] (Demo) Final Feast Horror Game
A solo project, prototype VR 3D game where you prepare food for undead customers for your LIFE. Customers ask for more and more complicated orders as you are given less and less time to complete them. After completing orders at a high enough accuracy, you WIN. You’re allowed to leave, only to return the next day.
Medium: Unity, Blender
Year: 2024
Details: run-time: 5m 38s
Horror Lamp
In class introductory assignment Maya animation and rigging.
Medium: Maya
Year: 2025
Details: run-time: 15s
The Great Crossing
Made during my physical animation class at UMBC. Created in a group of three, we each created a character and based a story around them. We individually animated our own characters and about ten seconds each of the final scene when they are all together. We worked together to create the background and story. My character design was the rock with the top hat.
Medium: Cut Paper Animation
Year: 2024
Through the Cosmos
This was created in a 3D Intro to Animation class and was heavily inspired by my love for space. I wanted to experiment with telling a story in a more abstract way. It was created in Maya with sounds from freesounds.org.
Medium: Animation
Year: 2022
Nubbles Adventure
This was a game that I helped create as part of my Game Design class in college. We learned how to build a game from scratch using our skills as either an animator or programmer. The game follows a little robot named Nubble who has been sent to the land of Greenville to help repair it for the humans who once lived there. I worked as the Lead Producer and main writer on the game as well as a modeler/animator.
Medium: Video Game
Year: 2024
Light Class
A teacher goes on an episodic rampage after his class doesn't show up
Medium: experimental
Year: 2024
The Vanished
People on a college campus are disappearing and a group of friends must find out who is responsible for it.
Medium: Mockumentary
Year: 2023