Shawn Olson Creative Arts
Art, Poetry, Photography, Writing and 3D
Greetings Earthling. Welcome to my creative portal. My name is Shawn Olson. I'm a creative jack-of-all trades who has years of experience in 3ds Max, game development, web development, journalism, photography, graphics and parenting. You may know me as a technical artist for Black Mesa or as the developer of Wall Worm if you came here as a game developer. I now also work on USD workflows and capabilities in 3ds Max and Maya at Autodesk. All opinions here are my own.
If you need help with any of these things, then I'm your guy:
- Problem Solving
- 3D Environments
- 3D Assets
- 3ds Max pipelines
- Game Design
- Documentation
- Journalistic Coverage
- Application Education
- Web Application Development
If you must know more about me, feel free to read A Short Biography. But more importantly, enjoy the various photos, poems, editorials and scripts across the site.
I always enjoy feedback from visitors. Feel free to send me an email with any comments, ideas, praise, criticism or corrections. Of course you can always interact with me on the Wall Worm forums or other 3D forums where I haunt.
Latest Articles
The Answers You Seek
A poem on confusion.
Assassin Bug
An assassin bug I photographed in Central Pennsylvania.
The Black Curse has Arrived
The Black Curse board game has now been converted to an online JavaScript-driven web game.
Periodical Cicadas
Photos of the periodical cicada also known as the seventeen year locust. Taken in May of 2004.
Liquid 6teen Promo Shoot
Promo pictures of rock band Liquid 6teen.
Amazing Challenge IV
Fourth maze the the Amazing Challenge.
A World at War
Thoughts on the American War in Iraq.
Reviewing the Slate
Review of Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate and the common notion that we are all born without predispositions.