Nov 8th 2008
First off, a big thanks to everyone who came to APE and visited my booth. I really appreciated all your feedback. And a big thanks to those who supported me by purchasing one of my prints or posters, I hope you really enjoy them. Speaking of posters, I now have posters available in the Store section of the website, check them out. Also, added two new mudbox models in the gallery, "High Priest" and "Kyte".

Sept 17th 2008
I will be selling posters and limited edition fineart prints of my work at this year's Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco on Nov 1st and 2nd. So drop in and say hi, and check out all the other fantastic artist who will be showing off their stuff. For more information, go here.

Aug 15th 2008
I am honored to have been both a judge for, and to have gotten some of my images into the book Elemental 3 by Ballistic Publishing. I have a chapter in the new book Digital Art Masters Volume 3 discussing how I went about creating my "Mouths To Feed III" image. To purchase the book (and get a preview) go here. A bunch of interviews this month, 3DCreative did a 7 page interview with me, which also includes a number of images, go here to purchase Issue 35 of their magazine in pdf format. It's Art Magazine has interviewed me about the work I did on Pixar's film Wall-E. If you read russian, check out another new interview with me at the Render.ru website. Added several new images to the gallery, 2 models called "Prey" and "Loaderbot 1", a speed painting called "Cattle III" and a new 3d image called "The Ark".

June 7th 2008
I am honored to have some of my work appear in both Expose 6 from Ballistic Publishing, as well as in It's Art Magazine Gallery Selection Year In Review Issue 1 2008. Go to the Published section for more information. I've spent the past year and a half working on Pixar's latest film Wall-e, modeling and texturing environments. The film will be out in North America on June 27th 2008. Check it out. Added a few new images to the gallery, including a rock test, a new speed painting called "Armada". I also added a test of a fire hydrant, which is one of the examples I'll be showing off during my Siggraph 2008 Autodesk MasterClasses on Shading and Texturing. For tickets, go here.

Dec 19th 2007
Added a ton of new images to the gallery. Added 3d Images "Eyes", "Gas Walker I", "Mouths To Feed III", "Marianas II" and "El Capitain". Added digital paintings "Cattle II", "Control", "Gas Walker II" and "Coral City". Added Shaders "Old Metal" and "Fuchsia Anthers". Added models "Otter" and "Sandman". And added a typography piece called "Digital Stabbing Thick Example I". Go here for an online article on me by It's Art Magazine.

Sept 13th 2007
An interview, as well as a collection of my works has been included in It's Art Magazine Issue 11, which is available now in both free and pay versions. To get your copy, go here. Check it out, there's also lots of great artwork by other fantastic artists.

Aug 19th 2007
My "Earth Dweller" image has been included in the book Expose 5. Check it out, it contains a lot of fantastic artwork from talented artists. The JV Pixar News has an interview with me available here. Added 3 new images, a sketch called "Creeper Sketch", a model called "Unborn", and a new reaper image, "Reaper 9".

June 4th 2007
Added 3 new images, two digital paintings called "King II" and "Tower To Heaven", and a new 3d Image called "Planetary Defense".

Feb 19th 2007
Added 2 new images, a 3d image called "Devoured III" and a digital speed painting called "Cattle".

Dec 16th 2006
Go here for an audio interview I did for cgcast, an informal chat about art, software and working in the industry. Added a ton of new artwork. 2 new 3d Images called "Mortal Terror" and "King I". 8 new digital speed paintings. A new model called "Sucker K". And a new sketch called "Slither Sketch".

Nov 3rd 2006
I've been chosen as the artist of the month at the NPowerSoftware site, check out my mini interview here. Thanks guys! Added 4 new images, a new 3d Image called "Earth Dweller", a new sucker, a new speed painting called "The Strongest Survive", and a quick sketch called "Knife Head".

Sept 9th 2006
Limited Edition fine art prints are now available of my work! Please visit the Store section. Added some new artwork, two 3d images called "Devoured II" and "The Reaper XIII", a shader test caled "Gum Eraser", and a new sucker called "Sucker I". I'm also honored to have gotten some of my work into the upcoming September Issue of ImagineFX magazine in the Reader FxPose section.

Aug 4th 2006
I am deeply honored to be chosen as one of this year's six Autodesk Masters. A big thanks to Autodesk and everyone who voted, and thanks to all the nominees. Go here to see all the masters, and go here for my "Q & A" for Autodesk.

July 12th 2006
Added some new artwork to the gallery, a robot model called "Anterak 21", and a mudbox experiment called "Sucker H". Also added 2 digital paintings, "The City Gates" and "Scream".

June 6th 2006
I am honored to have been nominated for the Autodesk Masters Program. Go here and vote for whomever you feel is most deserving of the award. Added a bunch of new artwork to my gallery, a test called Cocoons, a shader ball test called Scales, 2 untextured models called Capsulebot and Virusbot, a new 3d image called Gas City 2, and a new digital speed painting called Pyramid.

Mar 28th 2006
Added a bunch of new artwork, an untextured 3d model called Stickbot 1, a 3d character for the book The Softwire: Rings Of Orbis, a fully textured 3d model called Horn Face, a full 3d image called The Gathering 2, a quick sketch of a Floater, the second in my Spore series of tests, and a 3d image/painting called Swirling Sands.

Mar 11th 2006
I reorganized the gallery a bit, adding a new page of thumbnails sorted by category as well as the usual thumbnails by date.

Mar 2nd 2006
I am honored to be included in the Artist's Corner feature on the Pixar website, the interview is available here. MayaMax3D.NET has also interviewed me, read it here.

June 21st 2002
I have the lizard character I worked on previously in a simple scene. Have a photoshop painting I did, and then 6 shaders, a few of which you've already seen in my tutorials. Speaking of tutorials, if you haven't checked those out recently, I redid the page, now the tutorials are ordered by subject, and I added a bunch of new photos and corrections and such, and a whole new lesson.

February 27th 2002
I have now split things up so when I enter the gallery section, you're presented with 4 choices. Personal artwork has my own personal stuff. Blur gallery has the work I've done for blur. Brazil blur has work I've done on my own time using brazil but that use blur assets (like models). And a brazil gallery where I collect all the work I've done using the brazil rendering system. There's a few new pieces of work in the personal gallery, but a lot of new stuff in the blur gallery.

December 2nd 2001
It's been a crazy year, and unfortunately not much time for personal artwork. But I still managed to do a few pieces, and have a pretty long list of new things I'd like to get going next year. Till then, check out a few new pieces in the gallery.

February 27th 2001
Well, as some of you have noticed, I have sorta changed gears and have decided to stop promoting myself under the soulburn studios name, mainly because I am currently working for Blur studio fulltime, and have decided to release my person artwork under my own name. Anyways, my site has moved almost entirely to http://www.neilblevins.com. I can still be reached at neil@soulburn3d.com though. My site got a pretty major update, simpler design, but easier to update and at this point I'm much more interested in providing useful content than a fancy website.

A few additions were added to the gallery...

- I have two ghost images that used to be in a different spot on my site.
- I've added about 6 tutorials over the past few months, with more on the way.
- Added two new images, formation and desert rose.
- Visit the interviews section in the gallery for an interview on the OPi8 site.

September 4th 2000
Well, haven't updated soulburn3d.com for awhile now, why you may ask? Well, I've been doing effects for a feature length film, and so had little freetime for anything else. And no, afraid I can't show any of the work I've done on the film yet, but once it's been released, I'll have some images and animation available hopefully. So this is a quick update with some odds and ends I've collected over the past several months.

- The site has been redesigned.
- A new image called Hatred IV. 
- A new album cover for the band Human Condition called Human Condition 9 Months Alone 
- Added a personal experiment called Pen On Glass. 
- 2 Webpage additions, Soulburn Studios Index Page 7, and Soulburn Studios Index Page 10. 
- For quake 3 players, added two maps that I built.
- Added a new tutorial and some book recommendations.
- For anyone using 3dstudio max, I have added a whole bunch of new scripts to checkout.

March 18th 2000
- A new image called Devoured. 
- A new image called Entry Point. 
- WBKids III Joyride, a bumper I did at Blur for Warner Brothers TV. 
- Some work I did at Blur for a MegaRig commercial. 
- An album cover entry for Malevolent Creation's Manifestation album contest (I didn't win, ah well). 
- An album cover for Encabulos's Abandoning The Flesh. 
- A series of three images, Downwards I, Downwards II and Downwards III. 

January 12th 2000
First update of the new millenium, and my website has now been split into three pieces (my artwork at soulburn3d.com, my personal stuff at neilblevins.com and my soulkiller webzine at soulkillerwebzine.com). These new domains should be running by tomorrow, but soulburn3d.com is running right now and has been updated with the following art...

- Lots of images from a short animation I worked on at Blur called SciFi Chain Reaction.
- A new image called Twins.
- A new image called The Pod Part 1: Cell.
- The Book Offering by Don Campbell whose cover I made is now available from Infinity Comix, 289 St-Jean Boul Pointe Claire, Québec, Canada., Nebula Books 1832 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montréal, Québec, Canada. H3H-1M1, and for more web info, go to http://last1home.tripod.com/.

October 24th 1999
Despite a hectic schedule at Blur, would you believe being immersed in art has just totally gotten my creative juices flowing, and instead of ending my freelance work, my productivity has increased! I have tons more work I will be adding in the next update, including some of my blur work, but here are a few images to tide you over till then. Next update will happen hopefully before the end of the millenium.

- Added a PERL script to automatically generate html pages for this gallery. What does that mean? It means, when I update my gallery, I no longer have to edit 70-90 pages, I can edit just a single page and let the script do the rest of the work (since all the pages are really the same style, just with different text and images). Big thanks to Duane Powell for the coding expertise
- Added a new image called Eternity. 
- Another new image called The Next Level. 
- A somewhat new (old really, but new to you) digital image called Offerings which is the book cover for the novel Offerings by Don Campbell. 
- A new image destined to become a CD cover entitled Support. 
- The Coprofago Images Of Despair album cover. 
- The Nexus 6 Acid Reign album cover. 
- The Silent Fear album cover.

July 24th 1999
- The company who was making prints for me has decided to move on to something new, so prints are no longer available of my work. But keep watch over the next few years, I'm sure some developments in this area will occur.
- Here's Walkabout in its finished form. 
- Added a new test animation called Lava Flow. 
- Added a new image called Hatred III. 
- Added another new image called Lifeline. 
- Two new fonts, Ix and IxCorroded. 
- A tattoo design I did for a friend of mine, KKG. 

For those of you who don't know, I have now graduated from University, and have moved to California, where I'm currently working a Blur studios in Venice. What does this mean for my personal artwork? Well, it means I won't have as much time as I used to to update my webpage with new work, but don't believe for a minute that my current employment is going to end my art. My personal artwork is a large part of my life, and this is really only the beginning. So don't expects tons of new work or updates for the next few years (But don't expect to see nothing either, I still have tons of projects I'm working on and I'm a workaholic, so you know I'll get them done), but for those of you who are in this for the long term, I do intend to eventually return to freelancing, and you'll probably see fine arts prints, posters, art books, CD covers and all kinds of other cool stuff pouring from Soulburn Studios.

March 20th 1999
- Prints of my artwork are now available. Check out the Order Prints Section.
- Some stills of the scenery from my animation in progress, Walkabout. 
- Coprofago just released the first single to their new album, and it has my cover art on it. Check it out at Corpofago Empty Creature. 
- A new font, Wound.
- Another new font, LifeStream. 
- Yet another new font, EggHead. 
- And another, Wound Example I. 
- A new typographical exercise, Scratch Your Eyes Out Example II. 
- A new test animation called Oil Tank Explosion A. 
- A new acrylic painting entitled Here I Am. 
- A good scan of my Partners painting. 

December 22nd 1998
A short update, with a few new pieces, but I wanted to do one last update for 1998
- Loik has been finished.
- Updated the Walkabout page.
- I added some typrographical exercises to the gallery. Here's one that you've probably already seen, Digital Stabbing Example I.
- Another oldee, Scratch Your Eyes Out Example I.
- Here's a new one, Too Damn Tall Example I.
- And another new one, Digital Stabbing Example II.

Well, 1998 is almost gone, and 99 is almost here. This has been a very, very major year in my life, and I look out at the new year with hope for possibly the very first time in my life. Thank you to each and every one of you, I'll do my very best to provide you with tons of kick ass new art in the coming year.

October 13th 1998
- Finished modeling my Loik character.
- If you use 3dstudio max, then I have a really indepth tutorial for you, explaining techniques for using editable mesh and meshsmooth to make characters, in particular, the Loik character I mentionned above.

September 5th 1998
Ok, it's the end of the summer, and I did a little housecleaning, so there's lots of new stuff, although maybe nothing spectacularly new. Check it out and you be the judge.
- Information about the new animation I'm going to be working on all year long called Walkabout.
- The model in progress for Loik, the first character in the animation. 
- A new tutorial on how to create Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps. 
- A new tutorial on how to make Tentacles and Chains Using Path Deform. 
- My original Soulburn Studios Logo I. 
- My Soulburn Studios Logo II. 
- My Soulburn Studios Logo III. 
- A rescan of an acrylic painting I did in 97 called Cyber Angel. 
- A new scan of the acrylic I finished last year called Partners. 
- The sketch for a new acrylic painting I'm working on, called Deus Ex Machina. 
- A new font called SkyScraper99. 
- A new section has been added called web, which includes designs I've made for the web. First off, my Soulburn Studios Index Page 4. 
- And the Soulburn Studios Index Page 5. 
- And the Soulburn Studios Index Page 6.
- And the design for The Whammy Page. 

July 8th 1998
First off, sorry, no new 3D stuff this time. I'm having too much fun partying. But I am about to start some interesting new projects, so expect some cool new 3d stuff by this fall.

I'm heading off to Siggraph this year (If you don't know what that is, then I'll assume you're not going). Anyways, if anyone wants to drop by and say hello, I'll probably be hanging around the Kinetix booth a lot, I'm the big tall goofy lookin' guy with short brown hair, a black knapsack and a black deathmetal T-shirt.

As for the gallery, I finally bought my very own scanner (ya!), so I've rescanned a good chunk of my traditional art, and added two new pieces, the first of which is called Portrait I. The second is a watercolor called Watering Can that I had online about a year ago, but I took it down because the original scan sucked. 

June 16th 1998
- Opened a new section called Models. The first model is called Shellback. 
- Opened a new section called Sketches, which has lots of random sketches I've done, either specifically for a project or just for the hell of it. The first sketch is called Of Your Former Self Sketch.
- Added another sketch, Shellback Sketch.
- Added yet another sketch, Partners Sketch.
- I've moved the Snow Walker Sketch to its own page.
- I've rereleased the Inner Demon Sketch.
- And a better scan of the Cyber Angel Sketch.

May 24th 1998
- Added a new image called Fallen Angel.
- Added a new font SMeg Off.
- Added another new font Don's House Of Oily Love.

May 16th 1998
This is a pretty small update, I've just added a tutorial on how to make mech textures, and made a page for my soulburn logo. I have however redone the look of the site, so check it out. In a month I'll have a whole bunch of new sketches, at least one new image, two new fonts, and two acrylic paintings added to the gallery.

April 10th 1998
- The whole webpage has been updated with a new look. 
- A new font has been added called Digital Stabbing. 
- Another new font added called Too Damn Tall. 
- Yet another new font added called Scratch Your Eyes Out. 
- A new image called From Darkness To Light is in the image section.

February 14th 1998
- Inner Demon is finally finished. Woo-hoo! 
- Just finished a more abstract max piece called Spit Forth. 
- A new drawing called Shadow Walker is in the traditional section. 

December 21st 1997
- I have added a new section to the gallery called Articles. This section includes articles, tutorials, and interviews that I have participated in.
- A new short animation called Dragonsaber is in the animation section.
- Special Note: Inner Demon should be finished soon, probably just after christmas.

November 29th 1997
- For any of you who may have access to Compuserve, there will be a VOUG conference featuring myself on Saturday, December 13 at 6 PM PST in the Kinetix forum (GO KINETIX). I'll be talking about my life, my work, my images, and my shoe size, so I hope some of you can come. 
- I've updated the Inner Demon page with a new picture of the scene, and some new info about the project.
- I have a new drawing in the traditional section called The Reaper I.
- Cat 'N Mouse V2, I tweaked the main character's run a bit so it looks a little more realistic.
- Due to server space and bandwidth limitations, I've removed the animated gifs and dumped the quicktime idea. One day when I have tons of space I'll probably put them back up, in the meantime, find a good Mpeg player like InterVu.

October 24th 1997
- Added a new image called The Thing That Should Not Be.
- Added a new image called Snow Walker.
- I've added a page for the new animation I'm working on called Cat 'N Mouse, and have some test images for viewing.
- I have a larger mpeg of my Sunflare animation available.
- I now have five clips from my World Eaters animation available for download, but please don't laugh at how bad the animation is, remember I did this thing more than 2 years ago.