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Text Menu: Art Portfolio 1Portfolio 2SpotlightArt Artchive 1Art Artchive 2Diablo II GalleryChildren's ArtworkSketchesPrints Downloads Tips Links All images copyright (c) Michael Dashow except for Diablo II, which is copyright (c) Blizzard Entertainment and Eager Ogre, who is copyright (c) Broderbund Software Page last updated on May 13th, 2005 |
This is a collection of 3D and game-related artwork that I've done over the years. I did a ton of work on Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II but there's only so much of it that I'm allowed to show. And the four years that I've been with the company since Diablo II shipped... Well, there's nothing there that I'm allowed to display! So I'm showing a lot of stuff that I've done on my own spare time instead. Hope you like it!
Retrograde is a personal project that I've put a lot of work into. It started out as an idea for a platform game. I built a bunch of models for it, more for fun than actually thinking I was somehow going to make the game all by myself. But the look combines more cartoony proportions and silhouettes with mroe gritty, realistic textures, both of which i love. And it's set in a science fiction world, and i never get enough opportunities to do that kind of art. Anyhow, you can see a whole load of stuff - five full characters and a spaceship - here.
A short film that never got completed. Have you ever heard of the basic writing excercise where you are given the task of writing instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then someone tries to make one by following your writting directions to the letter? This excercise teaches the importance of being precise and clear... and usually results in a bunch of very poorly made sandwiches! So the idea for the animation was this teacher - a cat - making sandwiches based on children reading these directions. I only got as far as a few models and some intro animation, but I got some great expressions for the cat. Check them out!
Just a fun experiment, again combining more realistic textures with non-realistic proportions. In this case, a very cartoony female character. You can see more details here.
Female Warrior After playing way too much of SquareSofts' final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, I was really itching to make a female model of my own. i love the rt direction in those games, defeinately a hint of anime influence but overall pretty real textures throughout the entire world. So while Shana, above, is pretty cartoony, the female warrior here is in a much more realistic mode. The proportions are a lot more realistic, even if the outfit is less so! Anyhow, it's another model that I never got around to rigging adn animating, more just doing it for the practice and experience. (And man, that hair was some experience!) But you can see more here.
Befor working at Blizzard, I was at Broderbund Softwar for almost seven years, working in their Living Books division of childrens' early learning products. It was a fantastic group, and I learned a lot. I started as a junior artist and animator, but by the time I was done, I was designing and directing my own titles. This was the last big thing I directed tehre, a fun ealry counting and shapes and letters title called Eager Ogre's Pet Show. In it, Eager decides to gather all of the stray cats, dogs, and birds in the neighborhood to put on a big fun pet show. Each section has you finding all of the animals (which involved counting or letter recognition or shape-spotting) and then further using those skills to put on the show. No, it's obviously not 3D, but it was really fun and used the technology in some wonderful ways and I needed a place to show him off. You can see a pile of screenshots here.
From 1998 onwards, I have worked at Blizzard Entertainment as an artist and animator. For the game Diablo II, I did a lot of the character work: Two of the 5 player characters, two of the four boss monsters, a whole bunch of monsters, and nearly half of the game's non-player characters. That's in addition to a pile of interface artwork, and - little known fact - many voices for the game, including those of the Fallen. For those of you who play the game (there are many who are still hacking away at it even now!) listen to the Fallen next time you're marauding one of their camps. Hear them yelling "Dashow... Dashow?" Well, guess who that is: :-) Anyhow, no voices here, just some art from the game, all of which I beleive has appeared in various other magazines and sites. |
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