3D/Concept Art Portfolio - seeking feedback
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Hello!
I'd like to ask for any thoughts, advice and suggestions for my current portfolio (<- link) - primarily on the 3D stuff I've included, although any thoughts about my concept art are also appreciated. I'm less confident in my 3D skills so I'd love to know what aspects I should brush up on and refine further to improve my work.
I'm aware it's quite a broad and generalised collection of work at present since it reflects my current indecisiveness as to what specialism I want to choose as an artist. Since I've taken up the helm of an environment artist on my university group project I've actually found a growing fondness for environment art and level design, but in the sense of coming to like it as much as I like character and prop art rather than feeling like it's my favourite thing to do. I have a similar dilemma with concept art. The specialism I lean towards seems to change almost daily ;-;
Thank you in advance to anyone reading this
(EDIT: I'm in the process of revamping my portfolio to tailor it towards environmental art, so I've removed almost all the other stuff I had since it's not relevant :"D I'll update this thread again when I've got more stuff to show beyond my two environmental concepts. I'm planning on focusing on making small props and/or a diorama to add to my portfolio!)
I'd like to ask for any thoughts, advice and suggestions for my current portfolio (<- link) - primarily on the 3D stuff I've included, although any thoughts about my concept art are also appreciated. I'm less confident in my 3D skills so I'd love to know what aspects I should brush up on and refine further to improve my work.
I'm aware it's quite a broad and generalised collection of work at present since it reflects my current indecisiveness as to what specialism I want to choose as an artist. Since I've taken up the helm of an environment artist on my university group project I've actually found a growing fondness for environment art and level design, but in the sense of coming to like it as much as I like character and prop art rather than feeling like it's my favourite thing to do. I have a similar dilemma with concept art. The specialism I lean towards seems to change almost daily ;-;
Thank you in advance to anyone reading this
(EDIT: I'm in the process of revamping my portfolio to tailor it towards environmental art, so I've removed almost all the other stuff I had since it's not relevant :"D I'll update this thread again when I've got more stuff to show beyond my two environmental concepts. I'm planning on focusing on making small props and/or a diorama to add to my portfolio!)
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I think I've been aware for a while that specialisation is the way to go, I've just been anxious to take the dive because it seemed like such a "no-turning-back-now" thing in my head when later down the line I can probably change my specialism if I want to (provided I do enough practice on the side). I've also been quite confused about whether having a generalist set of skills is beneficial or not since I hear mixed things about it (more helpful to wear multiple hats in a smaller team but less beneficial in the long run etc.) but I concluded it's easier for me to pick one thing to focus on for now.
After some further reading and thinking, I think I'm going to work towards becoming an environment artist since that'll let me dabble with props and tech art along the way which I'm also interested in. I wanted to be a character artist for the longest time so it feels a bit strange letting go of that to an extent but I figure since it's something I still enjoy I can learn it in my own time, same with concept art which is my 'ultimate' ambition, but I recognise it's incredibly difficult to get into and probably a less ideal choice for when I really start looking for work. One of my tutors at uni advised that I get some experience as a 3D artist of some kind and then look into concept art later down the line so I'm hoping that works out :")
These are all pieces I plan on revisiting and improving when I have time, especially since they're quite old (all except the ukulele are first-year work) so I'd appreciate any specific pointers on things I should consider when I do this!
Posting my sculpted stuff in this reply and hard-surface things in the next.
Character Bust of Ophilia Clement (Octopath Traveller)
Areas to improve noted so far:
- Optimisation (reduce polycount on low resolution model) and topology esp. around face
- Texturing - tone down cloth bumps and reduce waxy feel of the whole model
- Face sculpt/texturing - define features like the nostrils, lips and eyelids more clearly
Great White Shark
Fiat 500
Modelled and UV'd in Maya, shaders/lighting in Houdini. Followed more of a VFX pipeline for this I think.
Places to improve:
- forgot to extrude the glass = distortion
- seam on back
- topology wobbly in places
Ukulele
Stuff to work on:
- need more polys for low-poly, looks too blocky RN
- Texturing