JAKOB HANSSON

Work Experience

2012 - 2021 Lead Designer at Portaplay

At the Copenhagen based interactive entertainment company Portaplay I have worked on many varied interactive projects.

My functions have been as a lead designer and graphic designer, as well as writing, testing, audio and film making etc.

Check out the www.portaplay.dk homepage for more info on our projects.

2011 - 2021 Founder of company, Hands On Media

I have my own long running company, where I mostly do various illustration, concept and design commisions. I have worked and collaborated on a wide range of projects for a number of companies and museums. The company list includes: Portaplay, The Asta Experience, Apex Games, Carlton Publishing, The Post & Tele Museum, Road and Bridge Museum.

2010 - 2011 Designer at Portaplay

I worked as a designer on a number of projects for the Danish mobile computer game company

2009 - 2010 Technical Director at The National Film School of Denmark

Responsibilities: coordination of pipeline and production, recording mocap, creating mockups of environment & characters, designing the one take camera ride, render wrangling.

2009 Level Designer at DR

Level Designer on a platform game for Denmarks Radios homepage (Game not yet released)

2008 - 2009 Game play and level designer - Limbo (Playdead Games)

Main responsibilities on the award winning game Limbo: level and game play design, QA, design documentation

Check out the news, stills, beautiful teaser and game play video here: http://www.limbogame.org/

2006 - 2007 Live roleplaying teacher - Birkerød Ungdomsskole

5 hours a week I was a teacher in live role playing for kids aged 11-18.

1997 - 1998 Producer, XTV (nonpaid)

Producer, co-director, writer of the TV series FYLD: a collection of fictional shorts on XTV.

Education and Courses

2022 Digital Coordinator

Certificates in Google Online Marketing and Google Analytics

2013-2016 Mads Rye Painting School

For several years I attended a weekly course in Oil Painting.

2010 Printed Media course

A two months course in Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.

2008 SCRUM and AGILE course

A course in SCRUM and AGILE project methods

2005 - 2007 IT-University, Copenhagen

Cand.IT, Media Techonology and Game line for Computer Games Design and Analysis.

Game designer on two DADIU productions: 'Kampen om Klumpen' and 'Hikikomori'

My thesis 'Tools in Game Development' is about using and choosing the right tools in game development.

2004 - 2005 Medialogy, Aalborg University

Bachelor, Medialogy.

2001 - 2003 Multimediadesigner, Københavns Tekniske Skole (CPH Technical School)

Multimedia design and communication

1998 - 2000 Creative Courses, Københavns Tekniske Skole (CPH Technical School)

A range of short, creative courses.

Activities: project and concept development, painting, performance, video, 3D programs (AutoCAD, Maya)

1997 Hillerød Kunstskole (Hillerod Art School)

Classical drawing

1996 Holbæk Kunsthøjskole (Holbaek Art School)

Creative Arts, Activities: painting, video, performance

1991 - 1994 Frederiksborg Gymnasium

Sproglig linie (Communications and language line)

IT Programs

Adobe Package, Office, Blender, Cubase, Sound Forge, 3D Max, Maya, Autocad, MotionBuilder, Unity, Artrage

Google Analytics

Languages

Danish, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish

Interests and hobbies

Culture in many forms: Art, Movies, Music and Games - travelling, seeing, sketching, listening, playing and creating.