Ashley Hakes
Ashley Hakes

Hi! I'm Ashley

Hi! I'm AshleyHi! I'm AshleyHi! I'm Ashley

With a passion for animation, I have experience in video production and marketing within the video game industry.

602.708.1649

Hi! I'm Ashley

Hi! I'm AshleyHi! I'm AshleyHi! I'm Ashley

With a passion for animation, I have experience in video production and marketing within the video game industry.

602.708.1649

What I've been up to...

I've started a new role as Sales Associate at Honeymoon Sweets Bakery in Tempe, AZ. I tend to customers' needs by fulfilling their orders of our daily pastries. I consult with customers looking for a customized cake for important events. I've designed cookies for the 2025 Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas seasons using our edible ink printer. 


I love being a small part of such a hardworking team that keeps our little bakery going. Seeing how happy our customers are when they see their wedding cake or sweet sixteen cake truly makes my day. Even when a customer is just adding a message to one of our front-decorated cakes, I'm glad I could provide them with happiness.

Honeymoon Sweets Image Cookies

    Motion Graphics Experience

    Dark Burn Creative

    Dark Burn Creative

    Dark Burn Creative

     Assistant Motion Graphics Artist | 2022 - 2025 


     I was part of a small team in Anthem, Arizona that would serve as a second office to Dark Burn's main office in Los Angeles. Trailers I've worked on have received millions of views and were often premiered at Summer Gamefest and the Game Awards.  

    Dark Burn Creative

    Dark Burn Creative



    Along with the graphics department, I managed the office space here in Arizona. Working with the co-owner of Dark Burn, we were able to have a space that could work in tandem with the LA office. 

    Dark Burn Creative



    I helped schedule maintenance repairs and replenish office goods and disposables. I also coordinated office outings and company events. I designed our office space to be a home away from home by creating a cozy and inviting space for everyone.

    Trailers

    Cutscene Animations

    Dark Burn is known for its exciting video game trailers for Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Dragon Age, just to name a few. As part of the graphics department, I would add in the text that gives the viewer more context as to what they can anticipate from the game. I've worked on multiple EA properties from Respawn and worked with developers from Epic, Blizzard, Mediatonic, and Behaviour. 

    Screenshots

    Cutscene Animations

    Cutscene Animations

    Using Photoshop, I would clean up and enhance screenshots for Apex Legends, Immortals of Aveum, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Cleaning up a screenshot consisted of fixing major clipping issues and adding game effects to get an accurate depiction of gameplay. To enhance the screenshot, a basic color correction would be applied to show the cosmetics that could be purchased in-game.

    Cutscene Animations

    Cutscene Animations

    Cutscene Animations

    Dark Burn was contacted by Behaviour Interactive to do cutscenes for their game Dead by Daylight. These would play when certain criteria in the game were met and would provide the player with character backstory. I collaborated closely with the creative director to complete a series of animations for various characters for the Dead by Daylight roster. 

    Apex Legends - Screenshots

      Previous Experience

      Arizona Studios | Animation & Video Editing | 2014 - 2021

       My colleagues and I created and posted original content for our studio’s social media pages. I helped conceptualize video ideas by creating storyboards to visualize the final product. I created digital assets consisting of lower thirds, logo animations, and engaging thumbnails for our YouTube series “What the Plot?” As a team, we created a series of ads for the studio to be posted on all our social media pages.  

      Snakes & Lattes Tempe | Graphic Design | 2019 - 2023

      Snakes and Lattes is a chain restaurant cafe that started in Canada and eventually expanded to Arizona. You can enjoy a cup of coffee or any meal and play a board game while you do it! Starting as a hostess, I quickly became the in-house graphic designer. I created a late-night food menu and updated rotating beer and seasonal cocktail menus. I also created a one-of-a-kind Board Game menu to allow for an easy game selection.

      Snakes & Lattes Tempe

      Front of Late Night menu.

        Motion Graphics

        Apex Legends X Post Malone

        I created the motion graphics for the Apex Legends X Post Malone partnership event. 

        Apex Legends Season 24

        I created the Creator Commissioners motion graphics section for the season 24 trailer for Apex Legends.

        3D Animation and Modeling

        I created the Wattson and Pathfinder motion graphics sections for the season 23 battle pass event.

        Mediatonic - Fall Guys

        I animated the full screen motion graphics for the Fall Guys Mobile trailer. 

        Behaviour - Dead by Deadlight

        I animated in-game cutscenes for the video game series Dead by Daylight.  

        Animation Reel

        A variety of different 2D and 3D projects from 2015 to 2021.

        Murder on the Cookie Express

        A parody video I edited for the movie Murder on the Orient Express.

        3D Modeling

        I recreated one of my favorite Polly Pocket playsets in Maya. 

        Playlists

        Motion Graphics and Animation

        A variety of different animations and infographics from my time at Arizona Studios.

        Editing

        Episodes of What the Plot? and other Arizona Studios content along with promotional videos from our clients.

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