[Portfolio] Noel Mahoney New Show Reel & Web Portfolio

maverickhornet

Hello all,

I want to try and establish a more solid and professional look online.

The links speak for themselves... I've tried to keep my Show Reel and portfolio all in line with one other.

One issue I already know about is Im missing the footer on the home page but that will be fixed!

Web Portfolio: www.noel-mahoney.com

Show Reel: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWku4LKEa9M&feature=plcp"][HD] Noel Mahoney Environment Artist - YouTube[/ame]

Be great to know what you all think!

Noel

Novian

Noel, I think your attention to detail in your scene is amazing! The only downfall to your video at the moment really is the camera work. There are several "hard spots" wher e the camera literally stops before moving on, try to smooth those out. Keep the motto in mind "never stop moving" that might help. Also related to camera work try to seamlessly overlap the fade in/out from one shot to the next, this will help to keep the viewer engaged at all times.

I hope these tips help you. Your work is quite fantastic.

Keep it up!

Cheers~

lincolnhughes

Looks like it's got potential, but it still needs some work. That black material that you have on the floor is wayyy too dark. Nothing should ever be pure black, not unless you're making a scene from aliens, and even then.. The lack of color grading is really hurting the scene too. If you go look at any shot of this area in the movie, it's alot more blue. Some of the materials need some tweaking as well. Alot of them are really reflective, but not actually shiny or glossy enough. Increasing the spec power on some of them (the pod thing that connects the person to the avatar) might help.

Hope this helps!

maverickhornet

Sorry for the late reply and thank you for your feedback!

The camera could do with improvement I do agree as I am still a rookie when it comes to matinee. I'll try and iron that out at some point. The next step is to start something new as I'm starting to get burnt out by this scene. Just got back to liking the actual film again too after going off it from the endless reference watching! So I'll return to the fixes once I'm fully charged again.

Not the first time I've heard that comment about the floor so I need make that a little brighter. I've heard about this colour grading feature in UDK before and I really need to look in to it a bit more. I'm going to start something fresh for now as I've worn it all out for now but I will return and improve it.

I feel I need to do something a little less sci-fi now for the portfolio!

Thanks again for all your feedback and kind words.