[Portfolio] Kyle Perkins

twigdamnyou

so the place i'm currently working at has hit a rough spot and i figured it would be a good idea to get a critique on my portfolio. Be brutal

http://www.kyleperkinsart.com/

Thanks in advance!

cholden

"Environment Artist" with no environment art? That's the first thing I noticed.

WIP that doesn't appear to be a recognizable shape.

Two chaos style weapons using the palette of happy, whimsical games.

The pulse rifle is ok, but it's up against so many other pulse rifles we've seen before.

You need some environments.

nirudo

I'll echo Mr. cholden above. It's pretty generic you need to push for more unique pieces. And also add in some organic stuff, you have zbrush listed lets see some. Also you have a spelling error in "crazy bump."

LMP

For the moment, you should call yourself a "Prop Artist"

Stuff is nice, but needs something more.

twigdamnyou

thanks for the critique guy ill get on those changes right away, especially the title that was a bit stupid of me. i do also have the intention of doing an environment just have to settle on a concept that i like.

twigdamnyou

Did a small prop for fun



and the hires



tell me what yall think

twigdamnyou

Started a new model
C&C welcome

high poly

twigdamnyou

Got a bit burned out on the mech so i started something different for fun before going back to it

Lucas Annunziata

The jukebox is lookin pretty rad, and the mech seems like coming along pretty well. I'd change your title to '3D Artist' I mean, you do more than model right?

The phone definitely needs some more love in the spec department. The metal is just reading really weird. Also, I'm really disappointed to see that the cord didn't survive that transition from high to low poly.

The pulse rifle presentation is pretty boring. Get a 3/4's view in there, and theres no reason to have pretty much the same shots in seperate images right after the textures. Your HP render there isnt bad, but could use some subtle color, and a neutral gray background.

The DS2 axe is sweet, but the zbrush screenshot isnt doing the the HP model and justice. Use bpr and render that out all nice like.

I'd lump the chaos sword in with the DS2 axe as soon as you can. It's less clicking, and they are related kinda items.

I also don't like that all your images are different sizes. Try to keep things a bit more consistent.

twigdamnyou

thanks for the reply darbeenbo that was exactly the kind of critique i was looking for.

Here is a WIP of the textures for the jukebox no spec yet

twigdamnyou

another update

tristanCarter

The jukebox is turning out fantastic. I too must say that I'm sad to not see the cord detail carry over on your phone.

As for your portfolio, design it around the job you want. If you want to be an Enviro artist, just start tearing through a couple nice environments. If you want to do prop, stick with what you're doing and like darbeenbo said take some nice BPRs of any zBrush work and some nice renders of the lowpolys from angles that really show the work off well.

On another note, if you want to remove the footer that says "create a free website with weebly," which I find very annoying, follow these steps:

First, go to the design tab while you're editing your page. Next click on edit html/css. After this go to your index.html file and scroll down to the bottom of the html script. You should see a line of code that says:

<div id="footer">

Now, take this line and any other lines that include footer underneath that line and replace them with:

<div id="footercontainer">
<div class="site_footer" style="height:30px"align="center"> Artwork © 2012 Your Name |
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com">Home</a&gt; |
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/contactresume.html">Contact</a&gt; |
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/extrapage.html">Coming Soon</a> |
<div id="footer-content" style="visibility:hidden">{footer}</div>

You can see the results on my web page: http://www.tristancarter.com which also sadly contains no artwork as of this moment as I am in the middle of redeveloping my portfolio/resume etc.