Shawn Spetch Art Dump

nail biter

2011-11-27T22:01:00.002-06:00

finally added this weapon in game-

conscientious objector on youtube

2011-10-22T20:04:00.007-05:00

Glad everyone is enjoying this one-

Conscientious Objector from the Manniversary Update!

Conscientious Objector texture change demonstration

Fun With the Conscientious Objector

New TF2 Weapon! I love Valve!

2011-10-13T22:31:00.004-05:00

The Conscientious Objector-

New job

2011-08-09T16:53:00.003-05:00

Portrait

2011-07-09T18:06:00.003-05:00

Did some album art for my friend Dave Cain. The tracks are awesome and the entire album was composed by Dave. You can grab the album from itunes at this link-

PORTRAIT

Album art is copyright Dave Cain 2011.

Kinect star wars trailer

2011-06-12T16:18:00.005-05:00

trailer for our game-

Tags: GameTrailers.com, E3 2011: Trailer HD, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Tags: GameTrailers.com, E3 2011: Introduction & Gameplay (Stream) HD, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

back to my roots

2011-04-12T11:41:00.003-05:00

needed some roots, 1.2 hours. Max blockout, 3dcoat voxelize, zbrush sculpt

new Zsketch

2011-03-25T01:15:00.005-05:00

I needed a quick model that I could use for a demo. Aliens are always fun to make. :)This is based on a concept sketch by Paul Richards in his brain dump

2011-03-08T23:17:00.003-06:00

New Website

Gb: SSanctum of Slime

2010-12-07T10:35:00.006-06:00

We provided some content for the new GB game releasing on XBL. It looks like hella fun and I cant wait.
TRAILER

new hat

2010-10-20T01:31:00.000-05:00

Weapons in action

2010-10-04T18:37:00.002-05:00

the special delivery pack

The holy mackerel

The Mannn - Conomyy update!!!

2010-09-30T14:51:00.000-05:00

http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/item_sets/

sw kkinect spoof

2010-09-11T17:41:00.001-05:00

Good stuff

Win!

2010-07-17T12:44:00.004-05:00

The Special Delivery Pack

2010-06-28T00:25:00.003-05:00

My final submission for the Valve-Polycount competition.

Week 4 Polycount comp

2010-06-23T10:07:00.000-05:00

Mentioned on Week 4 entry of the week -

http://www.polycount.com/2010/06/21/tf2-polycount-pack-week-4-check-in/

new contest

2010-06-18T13:33:00.002-05:00

Doing the TF2 PolycountPack contest.

What I'm working on

2010-06-14T21:32:00.002-05:00

Zah!

2010-05-25T00:49:00.006-05:00

Ze Goggles!

2010-05-21T11:36:00.004-05:00

Certainly made my day. My goggles made it into Team Fortress. Here's the link for the contribute page-
http://www.teamfortress.com/contribute/

Eroded Rock

2010-04-24T19:25:00.003-05:00

Found a cool photo of an interesting rock formation.Had a few hours to spare.

speed sculpt

2010-04-03T13:52:00.002-05:00

doing a little free form on the weekend.

Quick sculpt

2010-04-02T01:22:00.003-05:00

Been on a rock binge at work and trying different techniques at home. This was supposed to be an hour tiling test but I couldn't decide what direction to go.

yeap, more rocks

2010-04-01T15:30:00.003-05:00

Here's a quick rock I used for more testing in 3dcoat. This one makes my first attempt look bad. It was quickly sculpted in zbrush in 20 min. then i dropped it in for paint testing. Maya snow makes everything look better :) Learned alot.

rocks!

2010-03-10T23:28:00.006-06:00

3d coat is great! No longer will I texture in photoshop for 3d coat has much more control over your texture. Welll, 3dcoat has its advantages and disadvantages. I can only export a 4K map which is plent for a game, but the painting tools are far superior to that of bodypaint. I can guarantee that I'll use this for the majority of my prop/asset creation in the future. It makes life easy and I can import my abr and custom brushes from photoshop.
---------3dcoat-http://www.3d-coat.com/

GB art presentation

2010-02-18T13:59:00.006-06:00

I urge everyone to come check this presentation out this weekend. My good friends Bobby, Ian, Tomas, and Glenn will be showing inspiration works from the Ghostbusters game. They will be showing everything from concepts, models, animation, and effects. Made this banner below for a bunch of shortguys site.

TF2 Contribute

2010-01-25T14:39:00.007-06:00

Started making some stuff for the Team Fortress 2 Contribution
Since the medic pack is based on a Ghostbuster it's only natural to give him the Ecto or "Ect-ohhhh" goggles. These were fun to make and I learned alot about TF2 texturing.

A really bad screenshot from max -

zombie

2009-11-23T14:43:00.003-06:00

My friend Brian says I need to start updating more often. Well, ok...been playing alot of Left for Dead 2 lately and loving it. In fact we all survived Dark Carnival last night, w00t. Here is quick zombie sketch

Alien pumpkin

2009-11-03T11:47:00.005-06:00

Forgot to post my pumpkin for the Tri carving contest

Berona's Hundred Year War

2009-08-20T02:18:00.008-05:00

My friends Jesse Labbe' and Anthony Coffey created this book, pick it up! This is probably one of the coolest collaborations between 2 artists.

Click for Trailer
Amity Ink

I decided to do some fan art and chose to recreate the Chemical Soldier. it was challenging converting the Cropones over to 3d since they are furry creatures. My focus was the sculpt, but I might go back and add materials if I have time. Yes...some moddled shadows too...blah

Explosive Personalities

2009-07-25T14:09:00.005-05:00

Another Game Artisans challenge that was fun to participate in. I came in second for my sticks of dynamite-

Constuction sheets for friends that requested them-

Ghostbusters Art Dump

2009-06-17T00:25:00.020-05:00

Ghostbusters is finally out, and it's time to dump some art.
These shots were taken directly from the Infernal Engine-

Environment breakdown-

I wanted to give a breakdown of one of the environments in the game. This set got thrown out but reintroduced for the Chairman boss fight. It was also redesigned several times. Andy did an initial blockout for the final redesign. Glenn made the corridors leading to this large chasm and made the smoke and liquid particles for the platform. I was in charge of making sure this environment got completed. I modeled and textured the set, platform, assets, and did the final lighting pass. Juan helped make the destructable beakers, and Matt Wells made the slime pools. The ghostly effect was created by Dusty. The majority of our sets were constructed like this- one big collaboration.

Some of the Concept Art I made-

Terminal Reality Logo Animation

2009-06-08T19:30:00.004-05:00

This is the Terminal Reality Introduction Logo for Ghostbusters: the Video Game. This is something I worked on with my co-worker Alex Rodriguez to produce in 3dsmax and After Effects. We both wanted to make a second pass but time was limited. We spend around 2 weeks on and off, and we had to balance our time between this animation and finishing game assets. Sound was created by Brian Fieser whos time was also limited. Click "HD" for a cleaner version.

Unearthly tweak

2009-04-26T01:09:00.007-05:00

We're putting together a Terminal Reality art demo and we decided to quickly tweak our Unearthly Challenge sets. I got Glenn Gamble to quickly make me a fairy particle effect. I added a camera path and attached a dynamic light to it. Tommy Westerman also helped me do some quick scripting. Instead of using the HD capture system at work we ended up going with Fraps. It was faster and gave us the same results. Thanks guys. Unfortunately Dusty's atmospheric particles aren't showing up well because of the compression i used. I'll upload a better version later. Click on "high quality" on the bottom right.

Killzone 2 props

2009-03-20T17:14:00.003-05:00

I worked on a few small props for killzone2 below- They were fast and fun.
I got a chance to play Killzone2 a couple days ago, and I found that it's one of the most realistic shooters I've seen so far. They spent alot of time on lighting and set creation to make their levels enjoyable for the player. The killzone art style is very different. If you've played through you'll notice that most of the textures are low contrast and have no primary colors.

Mud Monsters

2008-11-26T22:56:00.002-06:00

I decided to do a Game Artisans Mini challenge last minute. I cut it close but was able to get it submitted. Instructions were to make a mud monster using zbrush or mudbox.

Unearthly Challenge Submit

2008-11-09T15:18:00.006-06:00

It's finally over, we submitted today. Bobby put some really cool sheets together to display our textures and final images below. All of the concepts below were created by Bobby St. Aubin. Dusty and I were responsible for the 3d assets.

Some of my individual pieces for this competition-

Halloween Pumpkin Carving

2008-10-31T01:34:00.003-05:00

Terminal is having a pumpkin carving contest and I decided to carve a pumpkin extremely last minute. This is my first attempt at some advanced pumpkin carving. I was tempted to make a ghostbusters logo but I went with an old favorite- Earthworm Jim. I learned alot sculpting this and next years will be even better.

Back to graphic design

2008-10-22T23:14:00.005-05:00

Taking a break from 3d aside from work. Made some web graphics for my sister's new upcoming site. It will be interesting to see how the site shapes up over the course of the next few months. I'm happy with the logo, had to post it up...

Unearthly Challenge

2008-09-13T12:00:00.007-05:00

The Unearthly Challenge has started. Dusty, Bobby, and I have teamed up to make a more hand painted style environment for this competition. This is excellent practice!
Our Polycount thread below-

More Zbrush Practice

2008-09-04T20:52:00.002-05:00

Been doing more Zbrush outside of work to maintain my sanity.

The game Castle Crashers came out and I decided to sculpt one of the enemies for fun.

Brothers in Arms art

2008-09-02T19:40:00.016-05:00

Even though the game comes out at the end of the month, some of my art has already been featured in trailers. I'm going to post up what I have seen so far and put up the rest when the game comes out.

Structures:

Props and stuff:

Modular Assets creation:

Unreal PhAT, the visual physics modeling tool built into UnrealEd supports creation of optimized collision primitives for models and skeletal animated meshes. There are many complex destructible objects in BIA and building them took entirely too much time. The problem is tweaking collision geoms in Unreal when you have 30 plus sim-able pieces per object. I was able to work with one of the programmers, Rick Johnson to make the destruction system more artist friendly. The ability to modify your collision in 3dsmax also saved us an enormous amount of breaker development time. You could say I helped in making every physics object in the game. Some of my breakers below -

Rear head wound that was made using Benny's Steep Parallax tech. This was expensive causing us to go with a non-directional lighting for this decal. This would have been great to see on the dead soldiers, but we ran out of time and weren't able to implement it. Thanks to Jo Espinoza, the heads currently rake in half depending on the weapon used.

High Poly Stuff

2008-08-18T23:43:00.006-05:00

It's been a while since I've had time to do any personal artwork. We have all been using Zbrush alot more at work after being inspired by the Dallas Diverge Worshop. I went through the Gnomonology tutorial: Sculpting a rockface by Vibol Moeung and wanted to apply what I had learned. So I made this Post Apocolyptic weapon below. It's a mallet made out of a cracked piece of rock with rebar and wrapped in duct tape.

focusing on anatomy and stuff-

Proton Beam Test

2008-02-29T19:59:00.002-06:00

In the spirit of the Ghostbusters game, I came up with this clip below. I wanted to try compositing my own version of the proton beam. I started making a 3d version but it took way too long to get the particles to look right. In the end, AE was the way to go and the results were pretty good.

Continuing Work on Ghostbusters

2008-01-09T19:23:00.000-06:00

Last week I came back to Terminal Reality to finish working on the Ghostbusters project. I am very passionate about this project, and I'm excited to finish what I started. It was an extremely difficult decision to leave Gearbox. I am happy to have participated in some of the core work on Brothers in Arms:Hell's Highway. The game is close to completion and the remaining months are polish time for the rest of the team. BIA is going to be a great title for Gearbox as well as the remaining titles to be released over the next few years. (Borderlands and Aliens) I will miss the friends that I have made at Gearbox.

Here's some of my GB work featured in these screenshots on IGN-

Low Poly Challenge #4

2007-12-18T14:47:00.000-06:00

This was a pretty fun challenge and got me back to painting pixel by pixel. The specs:

Create your own cute critter for battle on a portable console. Mix an existing or mythical creature with some sort of object or other creature.

Unfortunately, I found out about this challenge a bit late, and you could say my critter isn't much for fighting. But he's cute...click link below

Ghostbusters Officially Announced

2007-11-15T23:30:00.000-06:00

So it's finally out of the bag, and the Game Informer Issue should be on the shelves tomorrow. This Stay Puft image was leaked to the public first seen on Kotaku. I assume that it was intentional considering all the hype it created. I had the pleasure of working on these scenes

Games for Windows Mag

2007-11-10T00:34:00.001-06:00

We have the front cover of Games for Windows featuring not only Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway but Borderlands. Some of my texture work is also featured in the spread for BIA.

Zomg! First Post

2007-11-09T21:12:00.001-06:00

First Post on my blog. This will be a good way to show friends and family what I've been doing. It should keep me motivated to post up new works of art.