Home | Mishelle Sholkov

Digital Art, Illustration, 3D Modelling,
lighting and texturing

About

I'm a digital 2D and 3D artist with a background in fine art and a passion for creating immersive environments. From video games to illustrations to animated films I bring worlds and characters to life with rich visuals where every detail tells a story.

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Portfolio
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Digital Art + Illustration

For as long as I remember I was always drawing and sketching. My love of fine art has evolved into the love of digital art and is the basis of any new technical skills I acquire and any new software I learn. For me, it always comes back to the pure joy of of creating art and telling a story.

Work

Short Movie: Breaking Point

Collaborating with my team on every aspect of the creation of this animated film was my favourite part of this project. Working on the backgrounds, prop designs, and animating parts of the film helped me hone many of my technical skills. At the same time I enjoyed taking on a leadership role as the production manager keeping the team on track, assigning tasks, and ensuring timely delivery of the final creative.

Inspiration, Influence and Style

This series was inspired by one of my favourite visually stunning vintage cartoon:
Adventures of Mowgli. It was a Sovient-era version of the jungle Book and is a visual masterpiece.
I pride myself in being able to create in many different styles while bringing my own spark and flare to every project

Lighting and Texturing

There is a special place in my heart for playing with texture and light in both 2D and 3D. It never ceases to amaze me how subtle light changes can brings a scene to life, add character, create an atmosphere and tell a story. I like to achieve visually complex and detailed light effects that bring richness to a scene.

Environments and Backgrounds

I could create backgrounds and spaces all day (every day). This is where I really thrive as I develop environments that are rich, detailed and visually interesting. I obsess about the tiniest details because they often tell the best stories and add so much character.

Daniel Tiger Neighbourhood
Movie and Season 9

I had the opportunity to contribute to the iconic Daniel Tiger kids series and movie as a layout artist at 9 Story studio. I was responsible for creating layouts ready for animation according to storyboards for weekly episodes and later for the feature film. It was a great experience to be part of the team, and we even managed to be ahead of production schedule by two weeks!

Creating quirky characters is something I greatly enjoy. Having worked on character development for books, video games and illustrations I am always excited to bring unique and fresh creations to life.

Character design

Commercial and commisions

You will always find me working on my newest technical skill learning new software, or technique which I eagerly implement in my images be it for a book illustration, commercial use or a special commission. I also love producing simple animations when it adds that little bit of pizzaz to a project.