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Apr 6, 2020

Hi! My name is Neil Blevins and I am a Professional Concept Designer for Film, Games and Books. I make Scifi Environments, Robots, & Vehicles! Check out my Art artstation.com/artofsoulburn and Educational Material and Books neilblevins.com #PortfolioDay

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Ben Henry

@Ben_Henry

Feb 4

Another example of trying to get hired somewhere. Naughty Dog invited me to interview for a material artist position. It went well, I did their art test in one week— 7 procedurally created materials in substance designer. 🧵/?

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Today's #throwbackthursday is all about rings. When you need Centrifugal Force to create Spin Gravity, no shape is better than a ring #space #scifi #nasa #spaceX #conceptart #illustration

Jan 30

First traditional pen doodle of the new year #mech #robots #mecha #bot #robot #concept #conceptart #conceptdesign #sketch #drawing #doodle

Jan 27

Hit a personal milestone last night, 10,000 subscribers to my educational youtube channel. Thanks to everyone who's following along, will be adding more art related videos in the not too distant future youtube.com/artofsoulburn #arttip #arteducation #conceptart #gamedev

Jan 26

This #throwbackthursday my tribute to the spikey alien landscape, including the last one, an album cover I did for a metal band almost 20 years ago. #landscape #scifi #conceptart #conceptdesign

Jan 21

It seems artstation has somewhat improved their Eula on AI scraping. The fact this happens a few days after two major lawsuits, including one naming their competitor deviantart, is likely not a coincidence. Wish lawsuits weren’t the best way to promote good behavior

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Jan 16

Playing with Epic's Realityscan photogrammetry software on my iphone. It does an amazing job with this Pacific Rim robot toy, check out how it manages to capture all the negative space, etc. Note: this is for educational purposes only, the figure is copyright Legendary Pictures.

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Karla Ortiz

@kortizart

Jan 15

1/ As I learned more about how the deeply exploitative AI media models practices I realized there was no legal precedent to set this right. Let’s change that. Read more about our class action lawsuit, including how to contact the firm here:

Stable Diffusion litigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick

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Looks like today is another #PortfolioDay! My name is Neil Blevins, and I'm a professional artist who has worked in Film, Games, and Books. Here's some of my artwork! #conceptart #conceptdesign

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Jan 9

Jeremy Vickery and I worked at Pixar together for years, he is the master of light and composition. He just posted a great video showing off a tasting plate of important artistic tips, this is a must watch for any aspiring concept artist or cinematographer youtube.com/watch?v=MDiysZ

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FOUNDATION Season 2 Trailer (2023)

Jan 5

Excited, really liked the first season, especially Lee Pace's performances.

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Dec 30, 2022

[5] So despite all the incredible setbacks of 2022, may you all have a most excellent 2023, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming on this journey with me, may you find your own happiness anywhere you can!

[4] I will continue posting what I'm up to. And I will try and focus on the good things of 2022 like my Megastructure book finally shipping and meeting so many awesome people at the various cons I did this year...

[3] I love making artwork! And regardless of how I end up making my living, I will continue to make art until the day I die. And as long as there continues to be an audience that can find and who appreciates my stuff...

[2] But it just ended the year and began the new one on a sour note. So while I had to mention the elephants in the room, I revised my message to this shorter and more positive one...

[1] Here's my 9 most popular images of the year #top9, and what a year it's been! I had originally wrote a tome about my concerns about AI, as well as the industry's move towards remote work which may spell the end of my entertainment career...

Made brand new logos for some personal IPs that I hope to continue to explore this coming year. Dusting off some old favorites and continuing to explore some universes created in last few years. “Space Baroque”, “Lith”, “Starship Hulls” and “The Reaper”. #logos #typography

Dec 28, 2022

Part 2 of my yearly traditional roundup, this time robot heads, all primarily pen and ink with minimal photoshop touchups #mech #robots #mecha #bot #robot #scifi #scifiart #doodle #illustration #sketch #drawing #concept #conceptart #conceptdesign

Dec 27, 2022

For all of you wanting a break from AI, here's some of my favorite spaceship doodles from this year, 99% traditional pen and ink, 1% photoshop tweaked #scifi #space #starship #spaceship #doodle #illustration #sketch #drawing #concept #conceptart #conceptdesign

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Dec 25, 2022

My wonderful wife got me this Dune Ornithopter model for Christmas. Awesome design

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and the rest of the movie team, and I am so lucky to have a wife that gets me :) Merry Christmas to all!

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Dec 22, 2022

So looks like nvidia has plans for creating 3d models using AI. Check out this paper: nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/

Dec 22, 2022

For this #throwbackthursday since we seem to be living through a mega #blizzard in the US, I guess its time to showcase some #snow and #ice images

Dec 19, 2022

As well as the art of book, grabbed this guy too, which also includes a ton of art, so check it out! Such a beautiful film #avatar2

Dec 17, 2022

So this book arrived just in time, I'm seeing the film this afternoon. So happy it's like 3 times longer than the art book for the first film. Not gonna look at it yet, will enjoy it tomorrow so I'm not spoiled. #Avatar2

Dec 16, 2022

So now they’ve added a way to tag all artwork. But clicking the checkbox to tag all current and future works doesn’t seem to add the tag to my current artworks. Looks broken. Also “no ai” means the art can’t be scraped or the artwork isn’t made with ai? The tag name is confusing.

The story continues.

now offers a tag to potentially stop AI from using your artwork. However, it defaults to allowing AI to use the art. & so round 3 begins. Honestly, if you just spoke to artists you'd likely avoid what I suspect will be a round 4, 5...n

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The Spaceshipper

@TheSpaceshipper

Dec 15, 2022

Someone said that following Warner's news is like a reverse Comic Con, where you find out what you can't watch in 2023. It is very true.

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One of the greatest #scifi painters of all time, new book just released. I’m always mystified by how he’s able to achieve such scale with such rough brushstrokes. When I retire I look forward to studying his works intensely & maybe I can learn a thing or two

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After

's less than satisfactory answer, looks like round2 has begun on the page

Dec 15, 2022

For this #throwbackthursday theme, it may be silly, but I couldn't help myself, this is my tribute to the almighty triangle #scifi #space

This is the main argument I have, beautifully put

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Floris Didden

@florisdidden

Replying to @ArtStationHQ

Ethical questions about AI training aside, If you allow this to run rampant on your site it will be unusable for me as an AD to hire artists

Artstation responds, tldr, it’s up to the individual artists to police themselves. Afraid this decision may kill the site as a valuable resource for job hunting and hiring.

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@ArtStationHQ

Here’s our update on AI artwork, including new features coming to ArtStation: bit.ly/3FvYDTl

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I know this is a nuanced topic, with some art being completely ai generated, some hybrid work, and some created by traditional digital means, but it’s time to start having this discussion so the site can be as useful as possible to the whole community.

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we absolutely need a way to filter the site so art directors and clients can more easily find art by people vs ai generated work. You’ve been too quiet on this issue, time to update the site!

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Vizcom

@Vizcom_ai

Dec 13, 2022

An open letter addressing the recent controversial topic about the use of unlicensed artist's work in the training and prompting of Text-to-Image Diffusion models. We hope that our tools will continue to enable artists and designers to create beautiful and meaningful work.

Dec 8, 2022

After my previous #throwbackthursday on pipes, can't forget about wires, wrote my wiremaker tool (aka wirebundler, wirejumbler) more than 20 years ago and have been making giant messes of wires ever since #scifi #mech #wires youtube.com/watch?v=pciLlH