New Website Portfolio

Calluhain

Hey everyone I just made a new website. Please feel free to check it out and I would love some critiques and thoughts about my work and the site.


Site:http://www.brendenhaddad3d.com

A little something about me. I recently graduated from a Tech school specializing in digital animation and visual effects, my focus though is 3D Environment Art.

Thanks in advance.

Tits

Hey, Nice website overall,
I find it very weird tho that in your hard surface part you have render that are completely off centered. Looks a bit strange?
Anyway, good luck for your job research

Calluhain

Tits wrote: »

Hey, Nice website overall,
I find it very weird tho that in your hard surface part you have render that are completely off centered. Looks a bit strange?
Anyway, good luck for your job research

Thankyou very much and are you talking about the last few renders, if you click on the picture it becomes bigger, but I see what you're saying that's an easy fix.

thanks again

Calluhain

Richapocalypse wrote: »

I like the layout of the page but my input would be to have the links go to
1) Portfolio
2) About me
3) Resume
4) Contact me

Then for your portfolio section, keep your current photo layout but have pics as links to the layout. This way you can upload many more work without cluttering your links in the bar on top of your site.
Did i confuzzle you yet? XD

Nope no confuzzling here, i understand, so I have my same layout for all my work, but linked from a single portfolio page?

Calluhain

Richapocalypse wrote: »

Since i'm on this persons thread i'll use their site as an example. http://davidjohngardner.com/
the way they have their portfolio set up but for each piece of work keep your layout.
so the final result will be the clickable picture to lead to a photo layout. I'm not a fan of his slideshow thing. I like your layout where everything is in front of me.

Thanks for the quick feedback, always appreciated, I'll get right on that.

jimmypopali

Just something little, your Hard Surface and Old Industrial link to the same page. Not sure if that was intentional.

cholden

Chinese Temple is clearly the best piece. Still, the materials are clearly generated with filters over the diffuse. The high tricount is also suspect as the building seems to have little detail. Not displaying the wireframe on this assets leaves a lot of questions.

Old Industrial conceptually doesn't make much sense, but more importantly, the texture generation appears to be some crazybump default settings over the diffuse.

The Hard-Surface section is just untextured low poly models. The last piece has some more detail, but these all look like WIPs. Hard surface modeling usually looks like high detail meshes.

Generally speaking, most of the images have a lot of negative space. Some of these composition aren't even looking at the asset. Just a camera pulled back looking at a solid color background with the content off to one side.

and btw, about and contact pages are extra clutter redundant to a RESUME which is actually important. You need a resume.

Calluhain

jimmypopali wrote: »

Just something little, your Hard Surface and Old Industrial link to the same page. Not sure if that was intentional.

From the main page, I just fixed that, thanks.

Calluhain

cholden wrote: »

Chinese Temple is clearly the best piece. Still, the materials are clearly generated with filters over the diffuse. The high tricount is also suspect as the building seems to have little detail. Not displaying the wireframe on this assets leaves a lot of questions.

Old Industrial conceptually doesn't make much sense, but more importantly, the texture generation appears to be some crazybump default settings over the diffuse.

The Hard-Surface section is just untextured low poly models. The last piece has some more detail, but these all look like WIPs. Hard surface modeling usually looks like high detail meshes.

Generally speaking, most of the images have a lot of negative space. Some of these composition aren't even looking at the asset. Just a camera pulled back looking at a solid color background with the content off to one side.

and btw, about and contact pages are extra clutter redundant to a RESUME which is actually important. You need a resume.

Thankyou for the feedback, much appreciated.

Calluhain

Just started using nDo2 and texturing again, let me know what you think. All of this very WIP not design direction yet, just wanted to mess with nDo2.

SanderDL

the text at the top is messed up for me in Chrome:



I would go with simple html and css to make your site, so you can prevent these problems. Also test in mutiple browsers and on a smart phone if you can.

Calluhain

SanderDL wrote: »

the text at the top is messed up for me in Chrome:



I would go with simple html and css to make your site, so you can prevent these problems. Also test in mutiple browsers and on a smart phone if you can.

Thanks for letting me know, that's odd though, I use chrome all the time, mobile works fine, i'll definitely look into it, thanks again.