Looking to improve my portfolio

JSpec

Hello Polycount,

As the title suggests, I am trying to curate my portfolio a bit and would love some help. I am open to any critiques, including which are the worst pieces and why, site layout, subject matter, consistency, and any other suggestions.

http://jasonmoran3d.com/

I personally don't like the environment piece I have on there and will most likely remove it. I am also looking to improve my texturing skills as well as pursue a medium between stylized and realistic. I am also looking to focus in on props and environmental pieces and trying to avoid characters for now.

I appreciate any time spent reviewing my site.

osed

your portfolio site load kinda slow for me, took about a min to get the images to load on the main screen

JSpec

I will see what I can do about the load time.

skyline5gtr

I would start with a small asset and really work on texturing it. Try to tell a story with it

clinington

osed wrote: »

your portfolio site load kinda slow for me, took about a min to get the images to load on the main screen

Same for me! Took a little while to load the homepage... You have some nice work but I would probably remove the environment. It isn't as strong as your other pieces in my opinion.

Ben_C

Regarding the layout of you portfolio pieces I would suggest condensing the pages and combining many of the pages. For example I have to do plenty of scrolling down the page to see 1 image of 1 view of a prop and this is multiplied when I have to look through all your pieces. Having a single page with front/side/three quarter renders can make it easier for someone to analyze your pieces better. The same could go for your texture maps possibly, you could shrink them a little smaller and put maybe 3 or 6 to a page instead of 1 per page.

jose.fuentes

I like the functionality of your page. I want to do something similar to mine portfolio. What did you use to make it?

JSpec

Jose, I used wordpress as the platform and a modified a theme called Daisho which you can check out at here.

Ben_C, thank you for your suggestion. This is something I will keep in mind and will help with both organization and load time.

jose.fuentes

JSpec wrote: »

Jose, I used wordpress as the platform and a modified a theme called Daisho which you can check out at here.

Thanks!

Nosslak

I think you should consider trying to categorize your portfolio a bit better. Consider placing all characters next to each other, same for all weapons instead of the (chronological?) jumble you currently have. I think this would make your portfolio appear a lot more organized and orderly.
On that note you need to more clearly market yourself for what you want to work as (eg character artist, weapons atist, environment artist) and tailor your portfolio towards that.

Try to keep the non-gamemesh assets to a minimum as well if you want to work as a game artist. If you still want to include them at least give them some more interesting materials to make it look less like you just gave up one day and called it done. In an optimal portfolio there wouldn't even be a need for a filtering system like the one you have concepts, highpoly, wip, etc. beacause the number of pieces those would be applicable to would be negligeable (i.e one or two pieces IMO).

Show wires and textures along with polycounts and texture resolution as often as possible. It's okay to skip out on it on the occasional piece where it's just too messy, but IMO most pieces should show them.

A lot of the points on the resume could be condensed. I'd completely remove the summary as it's basically just word poop telling me you want to be a non-descript 3d artist which you could (and probably should) show with a subtitle under your name instead.
You coul completely remove all the job roles under the employment history as none of them are relevant for a 3d artist (keep the job, just remove the subpoints).

JSpec

Thanks for the advice Nosslak. You make some good points and I will take them into consideration.