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Shawn is an award-winning industry Veteran with years experience in positions of increasing complexity and responsibility in Entertainment, AAA Games, Casual Games, and Web 2.0 Design. He has worked on such games a Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, The Outfit, and Fit Brains Games.
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The Outfit – Published by THQ, Developed by Relic Entertainment
The achievement medals for THQ‘s “The Outfit” were created using 3D Studio Max and Adobe Photoshop. This game was Relic Entertainment’s first foray into the video game console world.
The achievements are high resolution models rendered out using the Brazil Renderer from SplutterFish. I was Art Supervisor on the visual appearance of the models, as well as creating the art assets for modeling, texturing, rendering, and post-production work done in Photoshop. I split the duties with another talented artist at Relic Entertainment, Jacob Binkowski, who helped model and texture half the medals. Since “The Outfit” was a fictional World War II game, we could not use the real life medals. For some, we took artistic liberties to keep the essence of the original, and in other cases we came up with a completely original piece. What was cool in the end was that one of our medals was actually created into a real-life medallion give to everyone who worked on the game. In total, it took 3 weeks to create all of the medals between two full-time artists.
Here is the full list of the 41 achievements for The Outfit.
Coming Soon – Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Achievements
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (PC)
Expansion Pack to the highest rated RTS game of all time.
I was the Art Supervisor for the Characters team on Opposing Fronts. It was a fun project and great opportunity to work on the expansion to such a highly rated video game. The standards were set very high and with most of the original team moving on, we had a challenge ahead of us.
The Heroes Team (character artists) was filled with 4 people; Melanie Caron, Kristian Bourdage, Stephen McDonald, myself, and Cheol Joo Lee on concept art.
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
XFire Skin
XfireTM is a free tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. It works regardless of game type, server browser, or gaming service that a player is using. Xfire eliminates the hassles of running multiple programs like IRC, instant messengers, or in-game friends lists to keep track of when and where a gamer’s friends are playing. It supports the best and the latest online PC games including server and non-server-based First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, and Role Playing Games.
This was a custom skin I made for Xfire using key UI elements from the game.
You can download the skin here.
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