Zak Owens' Portfolio

These wall and floor patterns were made for an unreleased casual mobile game. The patterns were created in Photoshop and imported into Unity. The player could mix and match patterns as well as change the colors of the patterns in-game.

ALTIUS Mission Patch

A mission patch that I did for ALTIUS (Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System). ALTIUS is a drone used for Information, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions and can be deployed from an AC130 gunship.

Sketch

Vector Draft

Final Patch

BlackBerry Key2 Gif Animation

A short animation done for The Hustle - a digital tech news magazine to promote the release of the BlackBerry Key2 phone. The project was done entirely in Photoshop.

Coffee Table Graffiti

Commercial Real Estate Marketing

Selected pages from a few of my commercial real estate marketing packages. Created in InDesign

Title Banner

First Name: Mind + Body + Soul

Last Name: The Five Elements

Hi-Res Version: http://i.imgur.com/fUV9EWC.jpg

Shido & Company

These are characters from an untitled personal project. The story is essentially a modern-day retelling of Johnny Appleseed, but with more ninjas, robots, magic and corporate scandal. Drawn in Flash.

Jon: Former ninja. Likes nature and being alone.

Typhany: Mysterious pariah. Good with animals.

Forest Spirit: Overworked, underappreciated bureaucrat on the astral plane.

Cyrus: Ingenious co-founder of Octo Brothers Logging Company

Walter: Business-savvy rogue automaton. Manufactures fancy weapons.

Arden: Solitary Gluedragon and notorious hoarder.

Elrock: Power hungry and deranged. Possibly a ghost.

Charles: Particle physicist and operator of the Giant Tetron Supercollider

Ricardo: Forgotten survivor within an ancient jungle mausoleum

Edgar: Redneck Piranhaman and his ironically friendly Gatorhound

Doodles Video

A quick little video I did for fun

Lead Zeppelin - Unity Game Demo

Spring 2012

Lead Zeppelin is a small, but challenging game that I worked on with two other people. In the game, you take control of a blimp in a hostile mountain range. Points are awarded for quick completion and for destroying enemy strongholds.

I handled the game's overall design and level structure, art design, models, textures, blimp controls, and wrote some C# scripts for environmental obstacles, including the lightning, boulders, and balloon-bombs. Click the link below to play the game.

> Click to Play Lead Zeppelin!

Cheat: Indestructible Mode: On the title screen, pause the game and press [delete] to toggle.

Screenshots:

Blimp Model

Blimp was modeled in Maya and used in Unity

The Floor is Lava - Unity Game Demo

Spring 2012

I worked on this game over the course of about a month with six other people in my Game Design as a Cultural Practice class at Georgia Tech. Based on the old childhood imagination game, you play as a boy navigating a furniture store. As a unique twist, you're also able to change to environment into 'Ice Mode'. Furniture and throwable 'platform-pillows' have different physics in Ice Mode as opposed to Lava Mode. If the player falls into the lava/ice water, the boy's imagination dissipates and the department store returns to normal, forcing the player to start at the last Checkpoint Couch.

On this project, I worked primarily on the game design and play mechanics. I spearheaded the Ice Mode inclusion, designed pillow and surface mechanics, and outlined different ways in which the two modes could be used in tandem.

In addition to design work, I illustrated concept art and 2D isometric views for the main character and handled textures for the furniture.

Mermaids Fish Concepts and Low-Polygon Models

Fall 2012

These are some fish that I conceptualized and modeled in Maya for Celia Pearce's Emergent Game Group at Georgia Tech. They were used in Mermaids, an MMO game in Unity that I worked on with about 13 other people. In addition to these concepts, I also wrote a design document outlining how to tame and manage certain utilitarian fish for use throughout the game's underwater environments.