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.
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de_sacrelige Custom Counter-Strike map
de_sacrelige is a small bomb map for Counter-Strike 1.6 that was featured on CS-Nation and has become my most popular map.
cs_interrogation custom Counter-Strike Map
cs_interrogation is a custom Counter-Strike 1.6 map set in an inner-city area.
The Fairness Mentality
Essay about our skewed perspective on fairness.
Online Vs Print
Essay on the values of web publishing over printed media relating to marketing.
The Cheating Mentality
Essay about cheating in online games, using hacks in multiplayer games.
De_Tension Counter-Strike Map
De_Tension (for CS 1.6) is a remake of the custom hybrid Counter-Strike map csde_tension. This is not the version for Source.
De_Stonehenge Custom Counter-Strike Map
This small Counter-Strike 1.6 map is based off the Stonehenge theme.
De_Mayan_Stonehenge Custom Counter-Strike Map
Enlarged version of de_stonehenge, a custom CS 1.6 map by Shawn Olson.
Romping Retrievers
Photos of a golden retriever and a Chesapeake Bay retriever romping.