About
Shane Olson is a world-renowned character sculptor with over 25 years of professional experience, including a decade at Disney Interactive. He specializes in creating stylized 3D characters for both games and collectibles, blending strong design sensibilities with production-ready workflows. For the past 8 years, Shane has dedicated himself to teaching and mentoring thousands of artists worldwide through his 3D Character Workshop and advanced coaching programs, helping them level up their skills and bring appealing characters to life.
Skills
Software proficiency
Productions
- Commercial / AdvertisementStylized Females
- Year2023
- RoleFreelance Artist
- CompanyReallusion
- Board & Card GamesTravelling Mickey
- Year2021
- RoleFreelance Artist
- CompanyQ Figs
- Video GameOverwatch
- Year2018
- RoleFreelance Artist
- CompanyBlizzard
- Video GameDisney Infinity 3.0
- Year2015
- RoleCharacter Department Head, Senior Character Modeler
- CompanyAvalanche Studios
- Video GameDisney Infinity 2.0 Edition
- Year2014
- RoleSenior Character Artist
- CompanyAvalanche Studios
- Video GameDisney Infinity
- Year2013
- RoleSenior Character Artist
- CompanyAvalanche Studios
- Video GameToy Story 3
- Year2010
- RoleSenior Animator
- CompanyAvalanche Studios
- Video GameCars 2
- Year2011
- RoleSenior Character Artist
- CompanyAvalanche Studios
- Video GameUltimate Band
- Year2008
- RoleSenior Animator
- CompanyFall Line Studios
- Video GameThe Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Year2008
- RoleSenior Animator - Rigger
- CompanyFall Line
- Video GameCalling All Cars
- Year2007
- RoleSenior Animator
- CompanyIncognito
- Video GameWarhawk
- Year2007
- RoleSenior Animator
- CompanyIncognito
- Video GameAdvent Rising
- Year2006
- RoleSenior Animator Mocap
- CompanyGlyphX
- Video GameBrother Bear
- Year2003
- RoleSenior Character Artist
- CompanyKnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
- Video GameHBO Boxing (unreleased)
- Year2002
- RoleCharacter Modeler
- CompanyAcclaim
- Video GameBarbarian
- Year2002
- RoleCharacter Animator
- CompanySaffire
- Video GameRogue Spear
- Year2001
- RoleCharacter Modeler
- CompanySaffire
- Video GameXena Warrior Princess
- Year1999
- RoleCharacter Artist, Character Animator, World Builder
- CompanySaffire
Experience
I teach students how to create stylized 3D Characters for video games and collectibles.
Learn more here
https://www.3dcharacterworkshop.com/Disney Infinity 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 --
► Sculpted Interactive Game Pieces
► Built in-game characters based on the toy counterpart
► Streamlined rendering pipeline saving company thousands of man hours
► Streamlined character pipeline
► Promoted to Character Department Head during production on 3.0
► (Responsible for team career paths and tools)Toy Story 3 --
► Choreography AnimatorCars 2 --
► De-ressed Cars Models from PixarJabberwocky (unpublished) --
► Lead Character Artist; Modeled several characters for the game
► Lead over four character artists
► Helped solve rigging problems for difficult charactersUltimate Band --
► Rigged and animated main characters for the gameNarnia Prince Caspian --
► Rigged and animated many characters for the gameWarhawk II --
► Rigged faces and vehicles, and produced in-game animations and LipsyncCalling All Cars --
► Rigged faces for lip-sync, and produced in-game animationsHomeland (unpublished) --
► Rigged Soldiers, and produced in-game animationsAdvent Rising --
► Produced pre-rendered cinematics
► Responsible for leading three animators to produce in-game cinematics
► Rigged and skinned several characters
► Helped build an in-house motion-capture studioBrother Bear --
► Modeled, textured, rigged and created full animation sets for several main charactersHBO Boxing --
► Modeled, textured and rigged entire boxing lineup
► Helped create sample cinematic for corporate presentationBarbarian --
► Rigged and hand animated three core characters plus boss characterLego Bionicle --
► Hand animated several animations for cinematicXena Talisman for Fate --
► Modeled, rigged, and animated core charactersRogue Spear --
► Modeled, rigged, and poly-reduced 50+ characters for port