Ken Hogan

OBJECTIVE
          Acquire a game industry position and display a diverse skill set from concept to completion of production art.

SUMMARY
 
*         Experienced in traditional and digital design, color theory, watercolor, oil, graphite and ink drawing, oil, acrylic based paints, traditional and digital sculpting.
*         Experienced with game production and art pipelines for, 3d modeling, unwrapping, high poly modeling and texture baking, material editing in engine (UT3),  2d sprite and 3d Key Frame Animation
*         Experience in multitasking with different art styles
*         Experience in software used for game design, 3D Studio Max, Maya, ZBrush, Mudbox, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Art Rage, Modo, Torque Game Builder, Unreal Ed 3
*         Experienced with MS Office Suite, and Tortoise SVN
 
Work Experience

GuildHall
2008 – 2009
·         Jyouge Tenchi, Down Top Mania
o   2D game Built in TXB game engine
o   Responsible for creating, and managing sprites, sprite animations, UI, and menu design
·         Librum Vitalis
o   Art lead, 
o   Responsible for managing a team of 2 artist, modeled and textured player character, enemies, and tower models.  Imported custom animations and custom bipeds, and created packages for Level Designers.  Over saw modular construction on Building assets.
·         Nightmare (Cohort 9 Capstone project)
o   Outsourced to for 2d game assets for use in UI.
·         Leviathan (Cohort 10 Capstone project)
o   Responsible for conceptual design of environment, and vehicles, also set the art style used in the game.  I was also responsible for modeling, unwrapping, texturing, and importing vehicles in the UT3 engine.
·         MIT
o   Developed tutorial centered on the creative processes of conceptualizing IPs.
·         Summer camp for young game designers
o   Assistant instructor taught young adolescents the TXB engine with the GuildHall platformer kit.  I also instructed students on art creation and pipeline for the engine.
    Illustrative
2005 – 2007

Freelance artist

*         Creating advertising pieces
*         Developing graphics for business use
*         Creating murals for entertainment locations
 
 
Education
 
The Guildhall at SMU
*         Expected graduation May 2009
*         Master of Interactive Technology, Art specialization
 
Pittsburg State University 
*         Graduated May 2007
*         Bachelor of Fine Art, Commercial art emphasis