Summary

Neil Blevins is a Canadian born artist who has worked in the Film, Videogame and TV industry for 25 years. He has contributed to 9 feature length animated films, including the 5 Academy Award winners The Incredibles, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3 and Brave during his 16 years tenure at Pixar Animation Studios as a digital artist. During his time in videogames, he has worked for companies such as Blur Studio, Warner Brothers' Monolith Productions, V1 Interactive and Lucid Games. While a versatile artist who has made artwork from cartoony to photoreal, he is perhaps best known for his scifi art, portraying alien environments, futuristic robots, and scifi vehicles. He has also seen 4 books published, from art collections and narrative artbooks to the award winning "Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia", an illustrated guide of speculative physics. He has also taught extensively at workshops and conferences around the globe, as well as adjunct at the California College Of The Art in San Francisco, and has released hundreds of written and video tutorials to give back to the community who's been so gracious at helping him get to where he is today. He is currently an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist, and contributes to the entertainment industry though his freelance company Soulburn Studios

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Maya

Mudbox

Photoshop

RenderMan

V-Ray

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter