Drake Hansen

Drake Hansen

About Me

My name is Drake Hansen, and I am a current student at Louisiana State University. I study Digital Art and my passion is photography and filmmaking while also working in web design and 3D design and landscaping. 

Work Experience

I worked at Raising Cane’s from October 2022 – February 2024 as one of the managers and main photographer for events. I managed and directed up to 12 crew members daily to run the restaurant. I was head of crew event planning and execution. I photographed every event we organized for Raising Cane’s to post. 

Hard Skills

Soft Skills

Known Programs

Premiere Pro is a video editing software that uses creative tools and integration with other apps and services helps you craft footage into polished films and videos.

Adobe Photoshop is widely used for image editing, retouching, creating image compositions, website mockups, and adding affects.

Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. After Effects is used in film, TV, and web video creation. This software is used in the post-production phase, and has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imagery.

Adobe Illustrator is used to create a variety of digital and printed images, including cartoons, charts, diagrams, graphs, logos, and illustrations.

Substance Designer is an incredibly powerful tool to develop realistic tileable materials and stunning unique textures, thanks to its node-based approach.

Lightroom Classic offers professional photographers powerful ways to import, organize, and correct everything they shoot.

Maya and Blender are extremely powerful 3D animation and rendering softwares.

The Unreal Engine is a powerful game engine that is widely used for developing video games of all sizes and genres. It is known for its high-fidelity graphics and is also used in various industries for real-time 3D visualization, virtual production, and simulation.

Houdini is an advanced procedural modeling, animation, effects, simulation, rendering, and compositing package.

NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)-based 3D workflows and applications.

Marmoset Toolbag is an indispensable software tool for displaying and rendering 3D assets in real time.

Perforce is an enterprise version management system that is based on a client/server architecture. The main repository (the depot) resides on a central server while the files you work on reside in a workspace on your local machine.

JavaScript is a multi-paradigm, dynamic language with types and operators, standard built-in objects, and methods. Its syntax is based on the Java and C languages — many structures from those languages apply to JavaScript as well.

GameMaker Studio 2 is a cross-platform game engine developed by YoYo Games. It offers a streamlined development process so you can take your idea from concept to finished game.

HTML and CSS are scripting languages used to create a web page and web applications. HTML provides web page structure, whereas CSS is mainly used to control web page styling.

Elementor is a drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. This plugin helps you create beautiful pages using a visual editor. It’s designed for you to build dynamic websites quickly.