My portfolio needs some critique

gamerenrique

Hi all,
I know there are a lot of things that still need to be tweaked to get me a job, but I'd love to hear any comments and critique on my portfolio before it's too late to make the change.
I stopped doing 3D for 4 years until this March. The gun and the dagger was done in these couple months and the rest are old pieces that I dig out from my hard drive. Looking for feedback on any and all aspects! Thanks!

http://www.yuluxue3d.com/

kageko

Hey there, most of it looks very good! I noticed a few things that are pretty easily fixed but should do alot for the models:

The blade handle looks good, but you should put some work into the metal shader , as it isnt really registering as metal at the moment. Your zbrushmodel looks very good, i can see you put alot of work into the sculpt, the shader/lighting is kind of hiding all of your hard work right now. The dirt texture on the blade is a bit too strong, it looks painted on, you can probably just tone it down a bit and it should look much better

And the car doesnt really hold up to the same standard as the rest of the models, some parts seem untextured, you have enough pieces that you could just take it out and the average quality would be much higher throughout the portfolio.

gamerenrique

Thank you for your advice, Kageko. I know my texture is really bad. I've worked on the dagger texture for a week, will spend more time on it. I textured the dagger in Mari. It do looks like metal in Mari. But after I put everything into Max and render, it just turned into some sort of high glossy dirty plastic material... and the lighting is killing me too... Can anyone share some lighting and shading tutorial pls?

cholden

No, IE is fine, it's your site that sucks. First of all, remove that because it covers your art and makes you look like a jerk.

The initial auto image loading page stinks. Get rid of the Home page, and replace with a row of thumbnails like your 3d Modeling page.

Condense About and Contact into a single Resume page.

WIP have no business in a Portfolio.

The Dagger has a lot of noticeable smoothing errors. Mainly that cut out area of the blade itself.

gamerenrique

cholden wrote: »

No, IE is fine, it's your site that sucks. First of all, remove that because it covers your art and makes you look like a jerk.

The initial auto image loading page stinks. Get rid of the Home page, and replace with a row of thumbnails like your 3d Modeling page.

Condense About and Contact into a single Resume page.

WIP have no business in a Portfolio.

The Dagger has a lot of noticeable smoothing errors. Mainly that cut out area of the blade itself.

Thanks cholden, this is the theme I chose from wordpress. Tried to fix the box with the only coding knowledge I have, but still have some issue with IE. would redo the entire site when I have some time. I noticed the smoothing errors as well. fixing it right now.