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artofsoulburn.bsky.social
Art Director & Senior Concept Designer in Film, Games, Books, Tech. Builds Scifi Worlds. Professional Work: Pixar Alum (16 Yrs), Blur, WarnerMedia, ++
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Doodles from February's Drink 'n Draw with The Workshop Academy in Seattle #robot #bot #mech #mecha #droid #doodle

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Please tech industry, get back to creating products that provide value to everyday people. futurism.com/microsoft-ce...

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A video going over the basics of different materials and why they look the way they do. While it uses terms related to 3d (diffuse, specular, etc) this focuses on higher level theory that can be applied to 2d and 3d work #arttop #materials #vfx #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdf0...

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Emerald City Comicon 2025 is coming up and I have a brand new print available from the Space Baroque series. If you're in the Seattle area Mar 6-9, come check it out, will also have my books for sale and many Megastructure prints! #artbook #ECCC

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A new art tutorial is in the works, hope to release later this week #arttip #gamedev #texturing #vfx #animatedfilms

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First court win against the argument that copyright material in ai datasets is “fair use”. Every win gets us closer to forcing companies to produce ethical datasets, or abandon the activity all together.

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Today is 2 for the price of 0 tutorial day. First a text tutorial on how we perceive color & how that can affect your artwork. www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... Then a video tutorial discussing how to use the photoshop cutout filter to stylize for concept thumbnails www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVM...

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Sad to see so much turmoil at monolith games, I worked 3 years on the “brand new franchise” mentioned here before the game was canceled. It could have been very cool. May they find a way to turn around the gaming division at WB.

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Another #throwbackthursday how about we go with a color this time and celebrate #RedArt ? #illustration #artdirection #conceptart #scifi #landscapes

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Posted a new video discussing my technique for creating orthographic image planes for 3dsmax to use as templates to build 3d models. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZob... #3dmodeling #modeling #3d #3dsmax #photoshop #vfx #gamedev

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Don’t normally post my photography, but discovering this super cool lichen the other day, and I just had to share. Totally reminds me of the intro to the “last of us” tv show. #lichen #photography #nature

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In case this saves anyone, the latest windows update 24H2 is causing all sorts of havoc (several articles about the issues). I’d recommend pausing updates for a few weeks, thankfully I was able to roll back to the previous version when it decided to break my machine

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Doodles from January's Drink 'n Draw with The Workshop Academy in Seattle #robot #bot #mech #mecha #droid #doodle

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Today's #ThrowbackThursday is deserts! Love illustrating stark landscapes made of sand and rock. #conceptart #desert #illustration #landscape

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Today's #ThrowbackThursday is the sunset. Always tough to capture in digital paint when our monitors generally only go from 0-255. There are just colors that only appear in nature, but we do our best to capture the feeling of beauty in our work #sunset #illustration #painting

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I've done some major spring cleaning and revised all 172 of the art lessons on my website with modern info! Also added 20 Blender tutorials. See this short intro video www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIW... & then see the new tutorials here: www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... #gamedev #conceptart #blender

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Happy new year everyone! Gonna start this year off with a few holiday doodles, but expect some bigger things coming up in the next few weeks as I kick 2025 into high gear! #robot #bot #mech #mecha #droid #doodle

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Gas Giant Refinery A gas giant refinery, inspired by the amazing "Megastructures" book by @artofsoulburn.bsky.social Blender, EmberGen for all the smoke, Resolve for comp, and the great @technouveau.bsky.social Modelshop Greebles pack to make the refinery and ships Hope you like it! #b3d #cgart

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Here's my year wrap up, my 9 most popular pieces of art from 2024. This year has been a complex roller coaster of awesome and terrible. For everyone in the entertainment industry, may 2025 be when things finally turn around for everyone, and we can focus again on making magic. Love you all!

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