New site!

JFletcher

http://www.artpanda.co.uk/

Tried to make it simpler and sort out my work into neat images with their own pages. Also cut a lot of crap stuff from ages ago.

So eh, yeah. If anyone has any suggestions or has noticed any spelling or grammar errors please say. (god knows i suck)

MattBradley

I really really like the layout; all portfolios should be this easy to browse.

Good to see another Somerset'er(?) on the boards!

Adam Curtis

Im sure i'll be the first of many to say what a great collection of work! It's a shame the 2d work isnt displayed in the same way as the 3d, but other than that its really tidy and displays all your work well!

Taunton eh? I'm from honiton down the road :P

JFletcher

Yeah I'm considering doing the same for the 2d stuff.

TheMadArtist

Very nice website, and man, that is some incredible work. Bookmarked for inspiration for sure. The only crit I'd have is what was said above; the 2d work not being displayed the same as the 3d.

You mentioned the grammar and if you wanted to get nit picky, I'd change "I am an aspiring 3d artist working into the computer game development industry, this website serves as an online portfolio and record of my career progression." to "As an aspiring 3d artist working into the computer game development industry, this website serves as an online portfolio and record of my career progression." to avoid the run on.

Gav

I love everything you do, man, seriously. Great site, very easy to use, very pleasing to the eye. Good stuff!

BradMyers82

Yeah, your work is really great man.

I'v been following you closely since I got into 3d about 3-4 years ago.

I have always felt that your site layout was sort of outdated, and not as simple as it should be. This new setup rocks man. Great job!

PredatorGSR

Looks great, both site design and work. The low poly link character looks really out of place compared to all the other great looking stuff. Also, this is nitpicky, but it would be nice if the image is highlighted when you are looking at the piece, the thumbnails all look similar so it is easy to loose your place.

Zpanzer

Awesome website Herr Fletcher! And the work ain't too shabby either

.... who am I kidding? You're a god amongst men!

Zack Fowler

Nice site, champ! Simple and clean yet attractively textured.

OrganizedChaos

Great job on the new website! I like this one a lot better than the old one, and I've been anticipating it's arrival
I can't think of any suggestions other than agreeing with wanting to see the 2d represented the same way as the 3d section. Fantastic artwork btw- I'm definitely a fan.

Ryan Hawkins

haha very nice site and work Fletcher, just the other day this site was empty and I was cock teased by you. Now its full of win, I think my fav has to be the shield. Keep it up man stuff is great you can also add that your work is displayed in the ga montreal art gallery.

Someone took a snapshot of the open house. This location where you image is will be the computer station and wacom area so your art will be right in the action .

http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/extras/gallery/011.jpg

More General imaged of the Montreal Gallerie can be found here.


http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14107

Mazvix

Sup man,

Great work! the one thing that caught my attention is you have a home page and a 3D artwork page but it is the same link...My website used to have that problem where you need a homepage for the site to work- but I managed to get around to it where it is only just "3D page" Should fix that.

I agree on the link character. And take out these 2 images from your 2D section- They don't add brownie points to your work: http://www.artpanda.co.uk/images/2dgallery/sadguy.jpg
http://www.artpanda.co.uk/images/2dgallery/walrus.jpg

jakelear

I came.


I love your work man, and the site does a great job of displaying it.

Disco Stu

Stellar

BradMyers82

The low poly link character looks really out of place compared to all the other great looking stuff.

I would have to respectively disagree with that. I noticed that I received a lot of critiques personally on some of my hand-held style art that it wasn't as good as my next gen stuff. But if you work with low res art you would know that it can actually take more artistic skill to produce nice art on strict texture and poly budgets.

Anyways, if someone is looking for an artist to work on hand held type games, that link piece might actually be full of win. Personally I really like the Link character!

DrunkShaman

I was going to say "faaaaahhhh........k* but I'll just leave by saying Awsome work and inspiring!! You really have settled an example for those who are here to watch and learn.

*Thumbs up* Sir. Fletcher, and keep up the good work.

Tom Ellis

Well my inspiration folder just grew a LOT.

I'm afraid I've got nothing constructive to say about your site or your work other than it's pure awesome.

Thanks for being so damn inspirational!

Serp

The presention and thumbnails are great. I'd like to see more of the hi res models for the characters. You have the hi poly robot image but it's kinda small. I think you should make the hi poly image bigger, with maybe some closeups. I think a potential employee would want to see your hi poly work and in detail.

Did you win any awards for the robot character? I think it would be impressive to an employer if you put the award image in there. I've seen other people do it on their sites.

Also it would be great if you could include a link to that image that Aftermath posted. In the Personal Feats section.

"Work on show at Game Artisans Studio in Montreal" something like that. They click the text and see the image or something.

Emil Mujanovic

Stunning stuff, JFletcher. Very solid presentation, awesome collection of work.

PolyHertz

Its humbling to see so much great work in one place

But It would be nice if you had the highpoly assets up their for viewing and could see bigger pics of the texture sheets.

JasonLavoie

Yup yup, this is sick fletcher, I've always enjoyed your work, and this just makes it easier to view it = thumbs up!

wizo

Killer work! Very nice site.

JonathanF

hey! we have the same first name and the exact same initials to! JPF all the way! Great site by the way to!

Grey

I have been waiting to see your site, clicked on your portfolio link in your signature on some post of yours, saw that it was "under construction" but I even liked the "under construction" page! Lol, I think it looks great man, I love how you laid out each piece with the wireframes, textures and finished product. Whole style of the site is way nice man!

doeseph

Amazing work Fletcher, I'm saving this for inspiration for sure. Your texture work is really impressive.

BoBo_the_seal

Now that your work is side by side, my only critique would be to mix in some color into your portfolio. With the exception of two pieces, you have a very consistent color palette throughout. You have the skills, flex those color chops!

Can't wait for more!

- BoBo

SHEPEIRO

think bobo hit it on the head, a literal splash of colour would make the coffee pop

Orb

nice website, very simple/easy to navigate. Sadly, we can't zoom in that stunning works ! I fell in love with some of your assets (like that earth golem or the low poly weapons!), motivates me a lot to work my paintskills.

turpedo

Nice work JFletcher, your site is pretty clean too.

How come you took the line art of the 2h sword(or 1h?) out of your portfolio?

Autocon

Phenomenal work Fletcher. The new site design is great, so much easier to view all your fantastic work.

sampson

i think it'd be nice if the thumbnails went into their coloured versions on highlight. just a thought. very nice john

Spitfire

That is absolutely awesome

[HP]

Well, i guess I can say this made my day!

Absolutely lovely portfolio. I really like how you kept your color pallet consistent throughout the whole website, it means that you really care for your presentation.

Cheers man, and congratulations.

Nitza

Here we go, first post on polycount just to say love your work!

Some very inspiring work there, really like your style and colour pallet, keep it up

crazyfool

haha Ive been waiting and waiting to see your folio using your DW entry to tease haha, fantastic work buddy, two thumbs up

chrisradsby

Really nice work mate, great site as well, easy to navigate and to get a good look at your work.

bounchfx

sweet! bookmarked. as usual man, inspiring work. keep it up.

you have a very distinctive style and especially color palette

nrek

Great site Fletcher! Everything is truly inspiring, after looking at all this stuff it really makes me want to do some hand painted models.

I do have one tiny nitpick though. Is there a piece of wood trim missing from your lowpoly zeppelin tower? The area where the roof tile meets the stone of the tower, it looks like its on the backside and not the front. To me that's the only part that could possible take away from how great this image is, so adding it back in might be a nice idea.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/916/fletcherq.jpg

rasmus

Very nice layout! Have you considered at all to let the thumbs be at actual color though? It's VERY brown.

Gamegeared

One thing i am sad to see is that my 3 favorite models are gone, namely the Orc, which is such a beautiful example of low poly modeling and normal mapping, the necromancer, and the robot observation .... thing
Also I miss your tutorial and news sections, but thats minor.
Still great to see your site back up