[portfolio] - i have one

aesir

hai guys. I just put up a website.

www.artofscottjonsson.com


Its the first website I've ever made, so I'd be much obliged if some of you could give it a test run.

Feel free to check out my animation reel


As far as crits on the web design, i read this forum a lot, so I'll get this out of the way for you guys. The pictures are too many clicks away, they should all be thumbnailed on the front page. You should have a back button available once you get to the pics rather than just linking to the picture files. Your portfolio shows no focus on what type of position you hope to get. Your animation reel is a bit too short. You dont show any wires, polycounts, or texture sheets on your game models.


Yes, I agree with most of it. Frankly, I wanna throw away pretty much every single piece on the website and make better ones, but I've gotta apply for jobs sometime...

I realize my portfolio has no focus, but what I really want is a generalist position at a small studio that lets me wear as many hats as possible. Ideally, I will create a couple different websites that are focused only on specialties so I can send those out for specific jobs.

As far as the rest, I hope to fix those problems too I rush.

Anyways, if someone could check it over to see if it works, that'd be great.

Armanguy

i like your animations there pretty awesome and your reel is even better, the one thing i think you need to work on is your game art its really oudated stuff i would throw all that stuff out except for these:

http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/childgeneral%20copy.jpg

http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/bandido%20copy.jpg

and for the sculpts i would get rid of this one i really hate seeing unfinished work on peoples portfolios! the other ones have a decent amount of detail for them to stay:

http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/vidkid.jpg

everything else is top notch im sure you'll land a job soon keep it up!

aesir

Thanks. I agree, I wanna get rid of all of the game art in there. The most recent one was from 2 or 3 years back and the oldest is about 5.

I just havent done a ton of game art recently

I plan to rectify that.

You might be right though that I should take them out.

Armanguy

hey man if those are 2-5 years old, i cant imagine how good will be with the knowledge and experience you have gain over that time period.

You should start thinking of getting into a mod team or something to showcase your game art skills.

Archanex

I think you've got a lot of potential, but you need to focus. You've got a good foundation in both modeling and animation, but I don't feel like either one of them is strong enough to really make you stand out. I do like the characters on your reel though, I think if you spent some time tightening up the animation it has the potential to catch a lot of attention good luck

aesir

Thanks archanex, really I pretty much agree. I just need another few months of solid work and I could have an entirely new portfolio up, but I've gotta start applying to places. Thanks for checking it out