Sunday Morning Sketch

Very little time for personal work these days due to a ton of freelance, so here's a super rough sunday morning giant robot sketch, and a close up of the robot's head...

SoulburnScripts Updated Apr 7th 2018

The scripts have been now fully tested in Max 2019!

Updated 2 older Maxscripts:

twoDPlanView: Added 3 modes, "Scene", "Scene Visible" and "Selection", which should allow you to more carefully choose what objects the script should work on.  
instanceFinder: Modified the code and interface a bit, no new functionality.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/scripts/3dsmax/soulburnscripts.htm

The Inc Books Are On The Boat, And Have Left Port

Hey everyone! So I finally have a concrete update, and it's good news! After getting through the backlog of Chinese New Year, and a final fix to the covers of the premium edition, our boat left China on April 01, 2018 and will be arriving at Los Angeles port on April 15, 2018. From Los Angeles, shipment will move by truck to the Amazon warehouse in Kansas, the truck trip and customs will take approx 1.5 weeks. Then it'll take 3 days to process at Amazon, then I provide amazon the list of people to send the book to and they start shipping the books to everyone. So we have forward movement!

Thanks everyone for waiting, now that I know about all of the factors that go into printing and shipping, my next book should have a much more accurate estimated delivery date. Next update will be when the boat arrives in the American port, so speak to you again in 2 weeks!

New Artstation Store and New Video Tutorial!

Hey everyone! So Artstation recently added a new store to sell digital goods, and I'm currently selling all of my tutorial videos on the store, so if you'd prefer to purchase your videos on Artstation rather than gumroad, go check it out...

https://www.artstation.com/artofsoulburn/store

And to celebrate, I've posted a new video tutorial on painting a robot design. This 30 minute video discusses how I use simple 3d, hand paint and photomanipulation in photoshop to render a more detailed design of a robot character. Watch clips of the painting process while I discuss the techniques, and then get a more in depth layer by layer tour of parts of the painting. This video can be purchased on gumroad or artstation for $2, just follow the links below, and thanks for the support!

https://gumroad.com/l/ZBzMG
https://www.artstation.com/artofsoulburn/store/oVO/painting-a-robot-design

Cover To Digital Art Live Online Magazine

Digital Art Live Online Magazine put "Gas Walker 1" on the cover to their latest issue, thanks guys! Check out the issue here: Digital Art Live Issue 27

Rescue Party

The original expedition disappeared without a trace a week ago. But a weak signal was found, and a search party was sent to the surface from the orbital ring to find out what fate befell the first team.

Heart Of The Giant Crew Pod 1

A space pod for my Heart Of The Giant project. Transports crew members and VIP's to and from land based and orbital facilities on all the major colonized planets.

Dig

An asteroid mining robot, the dig is designed to land on an asteroid in swarms and scrape the surface with its strong paws. Since many asteroids are basically large piles of rubble, and opposed to solid rock, removing material from the surface is actually quite easy. The disturbed surface material will then be caught in large nets for transport to a refinement facility.

Space Ship 15 Line Sketch

A quick spaceship idea, I guess the thing in the front is a cowcatcher? Maybe to clear the path of micro-bolides? My wife thinks it looks like a belt buckle.

Pen Sketch Of Futuristic City

Quick little pen sketch exploring composition. I think the angle was inspired by a painting I saw on Art Station, can't find it now.