Hi yall! My name is Keenan and I’m a senior IMGD BA student from South Portland, Maine. I did not originally come to WPI with the intention of pursuing IMGD or art, but I quickly fell in love with the IMGD courses I was taking, and made the switch and have’t looked back since! I’ve always been drawn to many different forms of art, but I’m currently focused on 3D modeling and technical art, specifically in character modeling as well as rigging and shader development. I’m hoping to use this class to practice my skills at creating 3D assets, and particularly on bringing ideas from concept to fleshed-out creations in a relatively short span of time. It’s very easy to get lost along the way of creating a “finished” piece of art, but I’m looking forward to training that process of keeping on track and keeping my goals in sight.
I have a decent bit of experience making games, having already taken 4500, a slew of other IMGD courses and currently working on my MQP. However, I’ve managed to barely ever work in Unity up until this point, so my experience is definitely lacking in that regard compared to everything else.
Outside of making games/game art, I love music and play the drums in a band with my friends back home in Maine! Music is a super cool creative outlet for me and I really love finding the links between music and art. I handle all the social media/art for the band, so it’s been very fun using the skills I’ve developed at school to make graphics and visualizers for a different passion project.
I’m a really bad #gamer in the fact that I barely play any games in my free time, outside of my comfort game, the beloved Minecraft. That being said, I’ve been inspired by a bunch of different games/media from a young age, mainly stuff like the galactic tech of Star Wars, fantastical creatures and environments of Studio Ghibli, and giant robots of Transformers and Pacific Rim. Also now dipping my toes into shader development, I’ve been super intrigued by media like breath of the wild and spiderverse for their interesting takes on shading art styles.
Hatching style shaders
A few different 3D character models
Band Poster + Illustration
Visualizers
Outdated Portfolio Website: https://keenanjonesart.myportfolio.com/
My band Instagram and Youtube (where you can see the full length visualizers) https://www.instagram.com/leafbandofficial/ https://www.youtube.com/@LeafBandOfficial01
striking- your posters are sick! I really like the colors you used in them
Impressive – the rango and robot renders are so cool
Detailed: The textures are super cool. It is really interesting how you are approaching it. They add depth but don’t feel overpowering
Gorgeous – These are all well rounded and stunning works of art. You clearly know your way around both 2D and 3D programs and have much to show for it.
Gorgeous – I love the design of the robot and its color scheme. All of these works have a firm understanding of color and shape, I’m impressed by all your works, especially the poster.
Detailed: All of your textures are really impressive, I especially enjoy the lighting on the robot.
Detailed! Your shaders bring out the discomfort in the scene, and your robot designs are full of realistic wear and tear. More than anything, your Rango model looks straight out of the movie!
impressive – the 3D models, especially the robots and hard surface stuff is super clean and have great texture, and the visualizers are really sick.
Detailed – the wear and tear on the robots adds so much to them and really takes them to the next level. I also really like the hatching shaders, that’s not something I’ve really seen much before. Oh, and by the way, I played the spider + moth game at showfest last year and it was super fun!
Detailed – I love the layering in the textures of your 3D models! It makes them super detailed, they look good
impressive – Your models look amazing in all aspects. I also like the audio visualizer and music. You have a very broad skillset!
Gorgeous, your robots look really good.
Impressive – I adore the hatching style shader you developed, it reminds me of the spiderverse movies.
striking: all of your work is really taken to the next level. you have such a diverse range of skills, and it’s really awesome to see such polished and detailed work.
Detailed: awesome texturing on your 3D models, very detailed and looks professional.