Portfolio advice & Next steps
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Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice on how my current portfolio looks and where to go next.
dangibbons.co.uk (arranged chronologically)
I guess i'll start with a short background. I finished uni degree in Games Modelling, Animation and Effects in 2015 and currently don't work within the industry although I have taken very few small pieces of freelance work. I stopped this a while ago as I had a complete crisis of faith in my abilities as a game artist, took myself back to square 1, refreshed every single thing I knew.
So, where do I want to be? I really see myself as an environment/prop artist.
Alright, so what have I been doing to get myself there? Like i said, I spent a lot of time refreshing myself, looking at various ways to do different things, making sure all technical knowledge is up to date etc and crawling through forums like this seeing what direction people in my position are heading. In my more recent work, I found the best similar thing and tried to make mine better. Don't know if I have achieved that but I'm pretty happy so far. I've made a load of test scenes to try out different workflows,techniques and quite literally 'how to make environments'. Mostly I have stuck to props for now but I'm gonna make some environments. I need to put theory into practice now.
Now, my portfolio. I've already received some really good feedback from other places. Like...
-I need to work on my lighting, especially noticeable in the Frozen New York project
-My texel density can be off, normal and bump maps too strong (again the New York project)
-Work on composition and presentation
-Make some substance materials and use them to create an awesome environment, also include some showcase materials.
I met a lead artist at EGX this year who plain outright told me "its s**t. I only want the top 10% of people and you're not there. yet." - weirdly enough this genuinely inspired me
If anyone can offer any more feedback and where they recommend I steer my future work, I would be so grateful! Thanks guys.
dangibbons.co.uk (arranged chronologically)
I guess i'll start with a short background. I finished uni degree in Games Modelling, Animation and Effects in 2015 and currently don't work within the industry although I have taken very few small pieces of freelance work. I stopped this a while ago as I had a complete crisis of faith in my abilities as a game artist, took myself back to square 1, refreshed every single thing I knew.
So, where do I want to be? I really see myself as an environment/prop artist.
Alright, so what have I been doing to get myself there? Like i said, I spent a lot of time refreshing myself, looking at various ways to do different things, making sure all technical knowledge is up to date etc and crawling through forums like this seeing what direction people in my position are heading. In my more recent work, I found the best similar thing and tried to make mine better. Don't know if I have achieved that but I'm pretty happy so far. I've made a load of test scenes to try out different workflows,techniques and quite literally 'how to make environments'. Mostly I have stuck to props for now but I'm gonna make some environments. I need to put theory into practice now.
Now, my portfolio. I've already received some really good feedback from other places. Like...
-I need to work on my lighting, especially noticeable in the Frozen New York project
-My texel density can be off, normal and bump maps too strong (again the New York project)
-Work on composition and presentation
-Make some substance materials and use them to create an awesome environment, also include some showcase materials.
I met a lead artist at EGX this year who plain outright told me "its s**t. I only want the top 10% of people and you're not there. yet." - weirdly enough this genuinely inspired me
If anyone can offer any more feedback and where they recommend I steer my future work, I would be so grateful! Thanks guys.
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Good luck!
You're lightening and darkening your local hue without adjustinf for hue temperature as well. That is to say, it just looks like you're adding black or white to a color to lighten or darken in.
You also need to add a color.
That's why a lot of your Wow textures feel dead and lack a sense of "body."
A rule of loose thumb, when going darker, it goes cooler (more blue). Lighter is hotter (more yellow/orange/red).
This will hopefully incredibly improve the feel of your WoW textures overall.