Portfolio Crit / Advice
polycounter lvl 5
Hi my name is Martin and im trying to break into industry as junior artist. I have some industry experience, I have worked for some profesional studio and did some freelancing jobs, Im writing here to obtain some feedback on my site / folio what needs to be changed improved in order to have more "client apeal"
WiP website - http://kaksou.wordpress.com/
Looking forward to hear opinion from industry veterans or any other constructive crits.
Cheers,
Martin
WiP website - http://kaksou.wordpress.com/
Looking forward to hear opinion from industry veterans or any other constructive crits.
Cheers,
Martin
Replies
Having simple crates, barrels, etc. isn't that impressive on its own. Plus you have it as WIP. A portfolio should only contain your finished work. Save the WIP stuff for an art blog.
For your other work, it would be nice to see wires and texture flats. You show wireframes on your Remington model but not for anything else.
The assets in the postapocaliptic set are finished, the set itself was intended to grow as more "garbage" apear there. But I think I should remove the 'WiP" just to avoid the confusion around this section.
The wires yes I will add them on the remaining pieces of my work.
I'd suggest trying to light things a little more interestingly (See: 3 Point lighting), the props and the Sci-fi environment seem quite flat. There's no real focus in any of the shots, and what I'm looking at just feels boring. Also, I'm having a hard time seeing the effect of the normal maps, which makes them look kinda old-gen.
Perhaps tone down the use of flat, neutral grey for presentation, too. Maybe some color, or just a vignette (Your gun at the top has this, and that's good).
Your actual work is pretty good, though. Mainly it's just the final presentation of it that causes it to look a little less polished than it could, I think. Just a final note, I think you should get someone to spell/grammar check your website. There are a number of small errors, but that can make it look like you don't care enough to fix them.
I lold
Nothing better than a dragonball themed contact page
(Skype is a bastard tho not letting you change names...gotta do a new one aswell -.-)
What is vegson 6 ? you need a new mail at best
If you use wordpress and not a real portfolio site, try getting your own domain
atleast. .wordpress dosnt make it any more professional
Do not use strange free fonts or windows fonts if you do not know what youre doing
get a nice sans serif and write all your stuff with that
here is a good free one with many weights http://www.dafont.com/roboto.font
Both barrels of your shotguns are too thing, and the start is good but you could make more out of the texturing
Id cut anything but the car and the shotgun and then try do push some new assets out
the new stuff is always the best stuff
The g36 is way too blocky and the apo assets look very dated
Also grey backgrounds are super boring and grey is the color of mediocrity.
Get a unified presentation with something a little interesting, same for the description text. Also nobody cares which programs you used, it just makes your page looks worse. skip the fancy photoshop graphics aswell, keep it simple and classy. (dont write "click for more" just put the name)
You can list on your resum