JORDAN HORNBLOW
Welcome to my domain
ABOUT
My name is Jordan Hornblow.
I'm a post graduate of Massey University in Wellington, with a Bachelor of Creative Media Production. I majored in Advanced Game Production. I am relatively fluent in all forms of technology and have experience in several roles working to develop a vast range of Game, Video and Animated content.
GAME DESIGN
A few projects I have worked on either in the Unreal or Unity engine.
SWIBO - COLLAB FULLTILT
In my final year of University a group of 9 of us did a collaboration with a game company in Wellington called SWIBO. We produced this game for them, which we called FULLTILT.
UNREAL - VEHICLE UI
In my second to last year of Advanced Game Design we focused on self-directed study. I chose to pursue my interest in AI (artificial intelligence). The video provides a good demonstration of what I came up with.
ANIMATION
A few projects I have worked on either in Maya or OpenToonz
SCARE - MAYA
This scene was created in Maya in which ALL the assets and characters were made and rigged. This scene demonstrates all of those components working in colmination.
PLASMATIC - OPENTOONZ
Opentoonz is a frame-by-frame animator which you need to draw each frame so it required a lot of patients. I was tasked with making a plasmatic animation which is a fluid animation of your animation.
STEWART - MAYA
One of the projects I was tasked with in animation was to create a model which displays all of the 12 principals of a good animation.
CREATIVE CODING
A few projects I have worked on either in Unity, Processing, Brackets and Three.JS
CHINESE DRAGONS - UNITY
This demonstrates a creative way of using code in Unity to make a pleasing animation. I used some cubes with a movement script as well as a lighting and rotate script to create the desired affect.
SNAKE - PROCESSING
I wanted to test my skills at making an all time classic. So I went about coding a game of snake from scratch in Processing. The end result was a hit in the class and lead to a battle for the highest score.
SLINKY - THREE.JS
This was my first experience with making code 'art'. I find it is still one of my most aesthetically pleasing pieces to look at and meant IÂ could just have fun with colour and patterns in code.
CONNECT THREE - UNITY
This was a Connect Three game that IÂ made to practice my coding abilities post University. I aimed for a minimalistic yet cute approach with a simple yet striking colour pallet. The game plays well and also increases difficulty with each level.
If by chance you wanted to have a look at some of the other creative work I've done with code, feel free to check out the link which will take you to my creative tumblr blog.
FILM/ACTING
A couple film projects I've been apart of.
GODFATHER MOCKUMENTARY
I took part in an afternoon film project. The gist is that a team of 5 of us tried to recreate a scene from the godfather in an afternoon and this is basically how it went;
TEAM POTATO
This was a commercial I was apart of to help get sedentary Wellingtonion's off their seat and active again. I directed and edited this myself.
HISTORY
My Experience
Nobody is born a professional at their industry-everyone who wants to be exceptional at something has to work hard at it, both through practical work experience and education. Read below for details on my education and past work experience.
CALL CENTRE REPRESENTATIVE AT GEEKS ON WHEELS
June 2021 - Present
In taking up this role, I hoped to gain IT experience to be able to build my industry skills. In my role, my key responsibility is to; take inbound client query calls and actioning the appropriate response to complete their query. This looks like, assigning a technician who is specialized in the clients query to the job, creating job sheets, communicating with the technician the clients need and filling out client invoices. Some other responsibilities I have are; maintaining the upkeep of the companies internal subscription management, training of new staff and ordering new stock for example.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AT MITRE 10
January 2020 - May 2021
This job entails helping people with every concern from a faulty or damaged items, all the way to queries of where things lay around the store. Being at customer service can often require defusing high tension situations, listening to the customers wants and resolving the situation in a comparable way. Always service with a smile.
CINEMA ATTENDANT AT MONTEREY CINEMAS
April 2016Â - May 2021
The job entailed Customer Service skills including the sale of tickets, concessions, as well as diner meals which also includes food prep, cooking, and delivering the food. I also work with money and cash up at end of shift. Always service with a smile, 4+ years worth of dedicated work.
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MASSEY UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON
I majored in Creative Media Production specifically focus on Video Game Production. However, I also did work in Computer Animation, Video & Film and Creative Coding.
February 2017 - July 2020
HUTT INTERNATIONAL BOYS SCHOOL
February 2010 - November 2016
Gained NCEA level 1 through 3 with a Merit Enforcement.
Gained Excellent Effort Awards in Information Technology, English, Math with Statistics, and Design Technology.
Was awarded Motivation Certs. Gold Award for a annual motivation and diligence towards work of +90%.
UPPER HUTT LIBRARY
Customer Service entailed helping people find books and suggesting new reads.Â
I also helped re-condition the books and re-label them as well as referencing stock.
March 2014Â - November 2014