Soulburn 3D Education Page Updated July 30th 2016

Updated my Art Process Overview tutorial with tons of new info and a newer video.

Another new Starship Hull

Xeelee Sequence Timelike Infinity The Eye Of The Spline

Michael Poole riding the "Hermit Crab" towards the Spline warship, from the book "Timelike Infinity", part of the Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter. The Spline are basically giant intelligent whales that have modified themselves to become spaceships, and rent themselves out to the highest bidders, in this story, the Qax. Just a quick color sketch, may do a full detailed version at some point.

7/12/2016

Programs: Procreate, Photoshop

The Heritage Universe Zardalu Line Sketch

 A Zardalu from the Charles Sheffield book series The Heritage Universe.
7/13/2016
Programs: Procreate, Photoshop

The Dangers Of Defying The Gods!

The dangers of defying the gods!

Link Removed

Soulburn 3D Education Page Updated July 4th 2016

Here's a full write up on my experience with the tiltbrush, including pics, walkaround video, stepbystep videos, fbx export info and a bunch of info on the technique, and where it may go in the future:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/tilt_brush_space_battle/tilt_brush_space_battle.htm

Google's Tilt Brush Experiment "Space Battle 1"

Had to chance to try out Google's Tilt Brush, a vr painting program. I see a very bright future ahead.

Go to vimeo to see a walkaround video.

Starship Hull 14

Megastructures 6 Skyhook

A skyhook is a tether attached to a heavy orbiting space station that would help reduce the cost of placing payloads into space. The cable attached to the station would extend towards the surface of the planet. Payloads would be brought to the end of the hook by a suborbital launch vehicle, attached to the cable as it passes, and then are flung into orbit by the rotation of the cable / station around its centre of mass. The station would then be reboosted to its original altitude by propulsion, or by deorbiting another object equal in mass to the payload. A skyhook is different from a space elevator in that the cable would be much shorter, would not come in contact with the surface of the planet, and the cable / station would be rotating like a pinwheel around its center axis.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EE4mK

6/9/2016
Programs: 3dsmax, vray, Photoshop, Looks 

Soulburn Assets Updated June 10th 2016

A number of changes to the asset files:

1) The materials are now 1 single download, instead of 4 separate packs. This just makes them easier to update, from a user perspective, nothing has changed with installation except you now only need to download a single zip file instead of 4.

2) Added one new Test Material called Test_ToonPaint, which is a simple material that allows you to give 2-3 different levels of solid color paint based on lighting direction. While the vray toon shader will do outlines, this is perfect for the paint inside those outlines.

3) I've removed the need for the ColorCorrect plugin from the materials and environments. Cuneyt's ColorCorrect is a great plugin, and far superior to the Color Correction map that's built into max, but a lot of people don't like being dependent on plugins, even free ones, so I've converted all the color corrections in the materials to using Output maps or the max default ColorCorrection map. At some future point, I hope to persuade autodesk to write a better Color Correction map, and when they do, I will swap all of these materials over to using the new map. But until then, you can use the materials without the ColorCorrect 3rd party plugin.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/assets/assets_3dsmax.htm