About Me

Jay Owens

Hello, and Welcome to my portfolio site. My name is Jay Owens and I am a game artist who works both with traditional and digital mediums. I received my Bachelors of arts in Game Design Art from Cogswell College. I then returned to receive my Masters of arts in Entrepenurship and innovation. Art has played a huge role in crafting my aspirations in creating characters, worlds and the stories that exist within them. It has also helped build my love and appreciation of video games as an artist medium. My dream is to be a game designer and create games that go above and beyond industry standards by creating games that show the world that games can be a serious art form too. I hope to inspire and empower people to follow their dreams and passions through all of the work that I do.

Skills

Concept art

Graphic design

Illustration

Digital painting

Acrylic painting

3d modeling

2d animation

Game design

Project management

software

Unreal Game Engine(UE4)

Unity 3d

Autodesk Maya

Photoshop

Zbrush

Substance Painter

Clip Studio Paint

Microsoft office

Education

Cogswell Polytechnical College

San Jose, CA

May 2019

Bachelors of Arts in Game Design Art

Masters of Arts in Entrepenurship and Innovation

San Jose, Ca

Dec. 2020

Experience

Game Designer/Developer September 2013 - May 2014

Senior Project 2014 - “Geo Run”

- Designed 3D level using Blender game engine

- Completed character, and environments from concept to finalized assets

- Presented and playtested with multiple groups

2D Animator February 2013 - June 2013

Whiteboard Animation(Art Installation)- “Imagination Apparatus”

- Developed a Storyboard to plan out different animations and effects in the final animation

- Implemented Character and effects

- Hand drew different frames and Utilized traditional animation methods

Artist(Volunteer) February 2016 - May 2016

Media Works -Cogswell College

- Aided students in drawing/tracing frames

- Collaborated with students in creating storyboards and ideas

- Consulted with the project manager, contributed to critiques and modified work accordingly

Artist( Generalist) January 19-21, 2018

Global Game Jam 2018-Cogswell College- “Hacker’s Revenge”

- Created 2d assets for level

- Rigged character model

- Aided and collaborated with other artists on the team

- Designed and planned out game mechanics with coders/engineers

Game Studio- Cogswell College September 2017- May 2018

3D Artist

- Modeled low and hi-poly 3d assets to be used in VR project

- Collaborated with the lead on progress and critiques