Shannon Galvin's Blog!

Shannon Galvin is an awesome artist who's finally gotten around to putting up his own blog.

Shannon's worked on so many Maxis games it would be hard to count them all, but going back at least to SimCity 2000. I worked with him on SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and The Sims 2, where he was central to the aesthetic design.

Here's some of his work from SimCity 4 and from the sadly canceled game "SimsVille"






And on Spore he drove the visual style, from the concept art he did for planets:




To deep explorations of rendering approaches, of which this is a solitary example, to working out how to make trees and creatures with our editors.




Shannon's art is wonderful, and on his blog you can see more of his personal work. You should check it out.