3d art of Shon Mitchell

Gas Mask Sketch

2011-12-30T17:25:00.000-08:00

Did the modeling yesterday afternoon, textured and rendered it this afternoon

Today's Sketch

2011-12-23T20:58:00.001-08:00

Going to begin a new routine tomorrow (hopefully)
Morning anatomy sketches, Evening Hard Surface sketches
here's the first anatomy sketch

Engraving Exercise

2011-12-22T18:54:00.000-08:00

A little bit of exploration before I apply to the gun

Update

2011-12-21T18:54:00.001-08:00

finished making it work and now time for detail

The start of something new

2011-12-20T20:52:00.000-08:00

Roland Deschain's Guns have begun. My little homage to the Darktower series.

One Last Ring

2011-12-17T19:19:00.000-08:00

spent the day digging into modo's rendering a bit more and getting my head around some of its more advanced features. heres my final render on this thing, now with better dispersion, caustics, ior, and AD.

more doodle

2011-12-17T12:17:00.000-08:00

quick addition, messing with mats and stone cuts

Quick Doodle

2011-12-16T10:56:00.001-08:00

Speed model, 15 minutes in maya.

Render in Modo

Infamous 2 Box Art

2011-08-01T20:20:00.000-07:00

Did these renders over half a year ago, turns out me and Mike Beirek were working on the box art for Infamous 2...Who knew?

little addition

2011-06-21T13:18:00.000-07:00

added a back to her

New Sketch

2011-05-24T18:11:00.000-07:00

Dirty god damn I actually had some free time before work for once. Here's a quick scifi armor sketch i put together in the wee hours before the job beckoned. will try and finish it out later

Tonight's Sketch: Exploring new sculpting methods

2011-03-17T21:16:00.000-07:00

Helmet for sketchbook

2011-01-16T17:48:00.001-08:00

Helmet based off of Tron Legacy Helmets

2011-01-14T19:53:00.000-08:00

Started doing a digital sketch a day. Here's day 1. Going to do my entire apartment and see how many sketches it takes

Renders from a time long past

2010-12-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Not really new work, just found an old weapon i did back in ... 2008 maybe?

ADD and Shitty Commitment

2010-08-30T00:06:00.001-07:00

Didn't get to work on Frostmourne this week due to client work, but did this quick sketch up of Mjolnir before hitting the sack

Total Time: 23 Minutes

Enough Fucking Around

2010-08-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

Screw it, throwing it into Zbrush and getting this son of a bitch done

Update Frostmourne

2010-08-19T16:40:00.000-07:00

Did a little work on the handle, added spiral details and started chipping up the blade, next time to get into some rune etching

Frostmourne Update

2010-08-15T23:40:00.000-07:00

Heres an update on the sword, tweaked the blade a bit,blocked in a few forms for placement and proportion, did a little work on the handle, and modeled the skulls for the end piece as well as the symbol in the middle of the blade

Batshit Insane

2010-08-09T00:58:00.000-07:00

Bat creature I modeled for our Animation Director and current President Chris Hatala to use in an animation demo

On a whim

2010-08-08T21:50:00.000-07:00

decided to make this after watching too much warcraft art and playing too much zelda

Update Frostmourne

2010-08-03T20:33:00.000-07:00

started on one of the MANY skulls on this fucking thing, here's a quick mockup, gonna spend some time in the morning giving it a better feel of bone...Hayooooooooo

Frostmourne

2010-08-02T19:00:00.000-07:00

Modeling the sword Frostmourne from Wrath of The Lich King. Here's the the current progress

Ogre Update

2010-07-28T13:38:00.001-07:00

Did a quick zbrush pass on this guy for some "marketing art"

Art Dump (continued)

2010-05-25T17:40:00.001-07:00

(All art for Tennis Masters Tournament Marketing/Billboard art)
1. Tennis Racket Model
2. Modeled Armor and posed for photo-comp
3. Modeled Armor and posed for photo-comp
4. Modeled Armor and posed for photo-comp

Art Dump

2010-05-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

Found some stuff on our company's site that I worked on.
1. Play Cover / Ride To Hell / Modeled Bikes and Posed Characters for paint-over
2. Playboy Girls of Gaming Spread / Ride to Hell / Modeled Motorcycle
3. Ride to Hell Marketing /Concept / Modeled Bike, weapons, and scenery. Posed characters
4. Need for Speed / Marketing / Concept / Modeled Logo/Text and all variants
5. Split Second / Marketing / Concept / Modeled Bridge and other environment assets

In-Game Model for Massive Black IP

2010-05-06T10:48:00.001-07:00

Here's the low rez in game model with texture

Robot Model for IN-PRODUCTION Massive Black IP

2010-05-06T10:43:00.001-07:00

High Rez Mesh for Normal Casting

Some Recent Work

2010-05-05T23:01:00.001-07:00

...its a sail boat

Remote Renders

2010-02-14T23:47:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd go and pretty this one up with something other than a maya workspace screenshot

Some Speed Models

2010-02-14T15:43:00.000-08:00

1 hr 15 min
1 hr 57 min
1hr 15 min

1hr 37 min

2 hr

46 min

2010-01-21T08:45:00.000-08:00

New Wip
Just doing a character bust, here he is in maya before i take him into zbrush for a detail pass and a paintover

briefcase

2010-01-03T21:56:00.000-08:00

new model

iphone Model

2009-12-14T23:18:00.000-08:00

I found a commercial from 2008 that i did some contract work for. Just modeled the iphone, all after effects and render was done in house.

saturdays additiions

2009-12-06T11:36:00.000-08:00

Update

2009-12-04T09:20:00.000-08:00

chipping away at an older project

Liana Hee's Concept Sketch of Death from Sandman

2009-11-28T21:37:00.000-08:00

This is a 3d version of a character concept from fellow artist and friend Liana Hee. Always wanted to model one of her designs, her cute and sexy illustrative style was fun to transition to 3d

HA LINH!!! BEAT YOU TO IT!!

2009-10-15T14:20:00.001-07:00

3dibru

some old work

2009-09-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a drop ship I worked on for Killzone 2

2009-09-04T17:13:00.000-07:00

2009-09-04T17:01:00.000-07:00

Silhouette test of WIP Character

2009-09-04T16:59:00.000-07:00

Helmet for a female warrior I'm currently working on

2009-08-08T05:02:00.000-07:00

warped proportions

new stuffs

2009-08-08T03:42:00.000-07:00

Heres a gun im doin for a still piece, going to screw with proportions next and make cartoony

Arm for demo

2009-04-14T20:37:00.000-07:00

Heres a quick arm I did for a demo in my unreal class to cover different texture maps and how they are used, this is for the normal map

1hour in, still need to finish

2009-01-21T15:27:00.001-08:00

1Hr Speed Sculpt

2008-12-12T22:05:00.000-08:00

back at it, time to evolve

Look at the BONES!

2008-10-22T22:55:00.000-07:00

skulls, skulls, and more skulls..... sigh...damn one trick pony...its not even a good trick

Creature for El Coro

2008-10-21T14:42:00.000-07:00

here is a creature designed into a toy by our 2d director at work. Now we have him available to rig and animate :)

original toy can be seen here

http://www.jungle-life.com/media/1/getsmall1.jpg

Tshirt Graphic

2008-10-05T12:14:00.001-07:00

Busy as hell as of late, thought an update...of any kind would be nice.
I know its not 3d, and I know its not hard, but damnit at least its something

Who knows, maybe I'll do Samus

2008-09-13T23:17:00.000-07:00

always wanted to do one of these little buggers, think i'll rig this one up and make it move

Update Minigun

2008-08-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

started to do some texture for high rez
scratchmaps and different materials.
My rendering skills still sux, maybe someday I'll be halfway decent :\

Low Resin Baby

2008-08-18T21:44:00.001-07:00

now to cast...bleh

Gun Update

2008-08-16T08:14:00.000-07:00

Woulda had this thing out last night but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I HATE RENDERING!!!!!

Say hello to my litt- WAIT!! STOP STOP!! This Sayings WAY too played out

2008-08-14T22:00:00.000-07:00

Process shot (bout half way) of a Minigun I started building, will have the finished High rez prolly tomorrow

My Tuesday Cop-out piece

2008-08-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

gonna be a busy today so here is todays quick art piece
cheers to alan moore

Lets start this thing

2008-08-11T11:45:00.000-07:00

OK, now if 3 jobs, a girlfriend, 3 years worth of backed up side projects, and a website under perpetual construction wasn't enough to deal with, here is a new thing to add on the pile, a blog. One of the things I said I'd never get into. Thanks Linh, you broke me. Hope you're happy >:P

I've got a workshop in New Zealand I'm going to ( http://www.conceptart.org/workshop/ ) in November so I'll be spending nearly everyday working on my speed scuplting skills from now till Nov. 11th and posting all stuffs up on dis, will hopefully get some crits from those others who are doing dis excercise and maybe get to buist out some decent portfolio work. Cheers Fuckers! This is gonna be grand.