The Soulburn CG Education Page has been updated:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educa...g_education.htm

Added a new lesson called Tiled Floor Material, and another one called Converting A Mudbox 2.0 Model To 3DSMax.

I've been away from CGsociety for far too long, it's even shameful. But Now at least I came to tell a bit about the reasons why this has happened.
Most of all, been very busy with work that has left me no room for lounging around, unless I really grab myself a vacation for a day or so. All summer was spent either with preliminary concept art for movie called "Cockfighter", comics of BHE, coverarts, making workshops or then I had to be writing my novel forward or answering to various interviews. So.. that's a lot to do and manage, even when life's wonderful and enormously energy consuming at the same time.

Exotique 4 didn't work out.. and I'm not one bit surprised, since the pic was all about a typical Character Design. And I only submitted ONE work for it (you'll soon hee it here, at my website it's called "Prodigal Son", now I only ask myself why I did such a decision.. hehe. Maybe I was in a moment of insanity, because I totally forgot about all the other works I made since the E's 3rd edition.
Even though that didn't happen, got many of my works included to a book telling of dragons by a London-based Flame Tree Publisher.
Also new ImagineFX is out and it has my Speedy tutorial article, so chack it out and let me know that you like it! Other opinions are not so great, LOL.

Anyway.. wanted to let you guys know that I'm not forgotten about this great place and gonna be posting a lot new stuff, business and practise in here soon.

In the meantime there's a very cool place that now enlisted me as their designer, called Skinnis.com.
It's brand new store opens up 1st of October, so in case you wanna pop in and take a visit, my profile looks like this: http://www.skinnis.com/kirsisalonen/

Max script update:

NOTICE: I had to make some major changes to sLib to remove several recursion bugs that could cause max to crash. I've successfully removed the bugs, but it's possible I may have introduced new ones, despite a lot of testing to make sure all of the functions still work correctly. If you see any weirdness where scripts you know worked aren't working as expected anymore, please get in touch with me immediately. Thanks.

Updated several older scripts, here's the major updates:

objectPainter: Added a place mode, instead of painting a series of objects on the surface, it will place a single object at the spot you initial touch.
bitmapCollector: Added Extra Copy Path value. If you want to copy the maps to more than one directory, add the extra paths in here, with a , between each path.
alignViewportToFace: I now give the option of facing the face or seeing it from the side.
objectReplacer: Now retains Display Properties.
soulburnScriptsLister: Fixed naming error in internal variables. Users should not see any change.
sLib: Removed recursive functions, replaced them with loops.

http://www.neilblevins.com/soulburn...burnscripts.htm

Thanks to everyone for your support.

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.

Let me take a breath ...
You know every thing is strange ! isn't it ?
I don't want paint some thing with meaning . esp with dangerous meanings . My life is the most important thing in my life , isn't it ?! heh i am not sick .
see you , i hope
hey ! i don't know if i do as i said ! maybe i paint dangerous again i don't know .
I want to practise more , i am working with maya again after awhile and drawing in paper .
I am trying to find an art college out of Iran . and reading english of course will talk with you better in english heh .
see you