[Portfolio] – Chris Holden

cholden

In light of recent events I've updated my portfolio. This is technically the first time since 2006. I'm happy with where it sits now. All the work is either done or shipped so I'm not really looking for feedback on it. Just getting the word out. Thanks for any support in these times and good luck to anyone else in the same boat.

http://chrisholden.net/

I'm going to take some time to think about some things. There is much work to be done.

adam

Decent, quick to navigate and straight forward. It works!

ae.

you'll quicly land a job with that resume good luck

aesir

Portfolio works just fine.

I'm looking forward to the personal art I suspect you'll be making in the down time

ae.

i would get rid of this piece though looks really dated

http://chrisholden.net/05.htm

Saidin311

Your stuff has always inspired and helped me man. Here's hoping you get something even better this time around.

I love the highpoly stuff you've done recently too!

Thegodzero

I wish we had an opening for an env artist

Lee3dee

that unreal scene is my favorite! Good luck Chris!

hawken

I like the warhammer stuff. Although you say you're not looking for feedback, your site has some glaring improvements to be made:

• You really need to put up wireframes, texture sheets, editor shots etc to back up the models you have made, otherwise one can't properly make out the construction.
  
• Your header image could do with being in the thumbnails as it's not immediately obvious that it's a viewable part of the gallery, and it's possibly you most striking image so make the most of it.
  
• The sci-fi gothic stuff needs to be put into context I feel. At the moment it's just high poly assets without showing how you transferred these to normal maps and so on. Often people present this as a three stage image with normal model, cage mesh and final result.
  
• Most importantly your cover images do not match up with your released title information, this is very confusing.
  
• Finally I feel that while your images are clear, they are a little on the large side. Even with my browser maxed out to 1640 x 990 I had to scroll to see all of the image. Maybe reduce them to a more manageable 800x600 etc.

Nice work and good luck with the hunt

Rory_M

Portfolio looks awesome, good luck to you Chris. Hope you land on your feet.

MoP

Cool stuff Chris. The art is great and your r

Snefer

I agree with MoP, the art is good, i like the highply pieces, but i'm not a great fan of the site itself. Its easy to navigate, but I didn't like those handdrawn arrows ^^

Frankie

Hi Chris, Nice looking work but in terms of presentation I prefer all the art to be on one page with the resume on a new page and the ability to print straight from the web browser.

If you keep the thumbnails I think it would look a lot better if they were a uniform size and didn't break the formatting.

Good luck!

BoBo_the_seal

Looks great Chris! I would like to see some construction shots but all of the work is top notch!

- BoBo

ArtsyFartsy

Seems like for the amount of experience you have, you should have a lot more work. I would dig up some more screenshots and enrich it a bit, even if you don't think it's great.

Kevin Johnstone

Best of luck Chris, love the cathedral like level.

X-Convict

Sorry to hear about what happened. You have some cool work, I hope things work out for you soon man!

misterboogie

Dude, sorry to hear what happened.. I'm sure you'll land another job quickly though.:)

I'm of the same opinion that there should be more work on your site and as already said wireframes, textures, and polycounts. You probably just got this thing up and those things are on the way as I type.

Good luck sucka!

JasonLavoie

Always nice to see work from you Chris Great inspiration buddy.

I wish you luck man, hope you find some great opportunities

Jeremy Lindstrom

yup ditto what everyone else has stated.. Still got all them tutorials too?

Richard Kain

Barebones, but it works. Pretty much straightforward portfolio design. Images to your works are front and center at the top of the page, just like they ought to be. There is an immediate example of one of your better pieces right off the bat. And I like the fact that you have all of your past commercial projects listed out below the gallery section, starting from your most recent.

It could benefit from a bit more...design. But for pimping to potential employers, its right on target. Your pieces are also quite solid. I would like to see some more flatshaded / wireframe examples. But I do like the fact that you've thrown in some viewport screengrabs. An experienced art director will want to see more "in progress" and technical renders.

GOBEE

Clean, straightforward, everything is up front.. that's all you really need. Best of luck to you.

rasmus

Needs... more! Construction shots and more stuff (if you've got it). Right now it just doesn't impress, I think you could get a lot more mileage out of the pieces you have by sprucing up the design a bit and adding construction shots etc, especially the cathedral. Good luck!

cholden

Thanks for all the support and feedback. I've made a lot of changes based on what's been said. Additions include many more construction shots of the Ut3 level, many more images of Warhammer art, and a couple low spec pieces for fun/variety.

http://chrisholden.net/

More to come as needed.

pliang

Ditto on the updates, I personally would like to see some new expansion on the tutorials, don't think its on there anymore. They really helped a lot when I started learning how to model including the modular building technique.

BoBo_the_seal

Nice Update! Love it all.

- BoBo

Richard Kain

Yeah, this is the right way to do a portfolio. Get what's necessary up first, and then slowly refine it as time allows. Whenever you have an extra hour or so between 3D projects, throw an extra little something into the web portfolio. The recent revisions are working well. The top section looks a lot cleaner and more tightly organized. And I freaking love the zombie-cat scene on the PSP, that is hot!

blankslatejoe

Sweet--that update really added a ton to your site!

IronHawk

sucks to here Chris. Best of luck to you man.

Shogun3d

Good luck Chris, nice portfolio and I love all your assets in WAR. Cheers

Renaud Galand

Nice portfolio Chris, really ! The only thing which is still confusing to me is your "shipped title jacket" column which isn't matching your text resume column. At first glance I got surprised to see the Dungeon Runners jacket in front of your WAR resume, and it's the same for pretty much every title. Why not just putting the right jacket in front of each resume part?

Anyways, looks great !