[Portfolio] Ruz both new and older work

Ruz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikerusby/sets/

Decided that I need to add more work to my folio to include some of my hand painted PS2 stuff

any advice comments appreciated

JasonLavoie

Man I love your texturing Ruz, inspiration in every picture.

My only nitpick is flickr itself... its a bit annoying to navigate. I don't know if this is just a place holder for a new portfolio site, but I think you should maybe set a small site up.

Anywho... awesome work man

Edit: I gotta ask man... one day, could you PLEASE make some sort of tutorial or a breakdown on how you do your face / skin texturing, it's top shit man!

Ruz

cheers Jason, guess I lost track of all the stuff I have done sometimes, needed to clarify my mind a bit.

hmm I actually prefer my older stuff:) seems like proper illustration.

yeah filckr kind of suite my needs as a total non web designer.

perhaps I should link straight to the slideshows to make things easier?

re my techniques, I don' t really have many.

my stuff looks awful then suddenly it seems to come right with prolific use of the smudge tool

in pshop, so yeah paint with airbrush then smudge

NyneDown

I've seen your work floating around and gotta say I love it man. And definitely, your texture work gives me eyegasms. My only nit-pick is the presentation itself...I'm like you, website building isnt really more forte but it would definitely help sell your stuff. A strong site+your work= da' bomb.

Ruz

cheers NyneDown - I have some web space, but am loath to fork out a lot of money for a web designer.
I may try and do it myself, but I am skint right now:)

I used to have site back in the day, but it looks a bit lame .

http://identitycrisis.planetunreal.gamespy.com/cabins/mikes3dsite/index.htm

JasonLavoie

Hey Ruz, why not try Wordpress? and if you have some hosting space, you could host the wordpress crap on your site

I think what you COULD do is pick some of your best work (have fun with that... :P ) and put it on a wordpress like site so people can easily view your work, and have a nice big link linking to your flickr account

Ruz

cheers man I will look in to it.

NyneDown

Definitely, wordpress or even a blogspot....I see those all of the time and they look nice and easy to navigate if done right. Building a site in dreamweaver isnt as monstrous as ya might think either...I think the hard part (for me anyway) is just trying to make a snazzy design. :-)

Slum

Excellent Ruz! If this is an actual job-hunting portfolio, i'd say you should scrap the misc and ps2 galleries. They don't help much, and in fact could hurt your chances if people skip past your far-superior new work.

Tumerboy

amazing work as always Ruz! Now I can find it all in one place!

ETA: I'm with Slum if you're looking to use this as job hunting material.

vik

nice work Ruz, but yeah flickr`s navigation is a bit painful

FAT_CAP

Very nice stuff RUZ. I hadn't seen any of your older stuff and I've got to say it's really impressive - you've got a really nice texturing style.

Frankie

Nice work ruz

I agree with the webpage comments though. A layout like the sight below are simple to do and easy to browse.

http://www.peperaart.com/
http://sa74n-design.de/
http://www.stellan.be/

Ruz

cheers guys, FAT_CAP - I fugure that since I am freelancing I could pick up some hand painted work

also, as I seem to have become a bit 'too' specialist somehow.

Frankie - I will give that a shot. cheers for the links.

What the best editor to use anyone, I always hated dreamweaver

some freeware drag and drop thing would be cool, but the ones I have tried so far are shit

Frankie

you could use google page builder? http://pages.google.com/

misterboogie

Portfolio rocks! Flicker presentation sux!

Try learning some html. It's not that hard to put together a good website. Find someones site you like and copy the code. Try to make it work for yourself.

Adam Curtis

Really nice Ruz, really like the new work especially gangster and the headmale. Texture works awesome

Mazvix

Great stuff!

fix the flickr as you already heard, because when I tried to go back to 'Home' you pretty much lost the recruiter.

Second in your misc stuff. You show you can hand paint, which what made me wonder why you spent time on everything but on especially the clothing there are no creases?
It came across as lazy. But if it is old stuff then that's the past, work on that for future assets

gavku

Nice Ruz...but yeah ditch flickr...just a simple blogspot page with all the pics would be better...and super easy to setup.
eg...http://scottvandenbosch.blogspot.com/

Ruz

cheers for the advice guys, it helped a lot.

I downloaded trellian in the end. works ok and my new web page is coming along ok so far. will post some WIP soon.

I am going for the straight gallery type page with no thumbnails. I like the look of the examples posted

Mazvix - yeah I have tended to specialise in heads/face textures over the last few years, so

my other skills like creases/clothes are not as as 'sharp'.

It 's not through lazinesss though:)

killingpeople

When you share the link you should totally send it as the slide show like that one dude did on here.

killingpeople

Your work is the shit btw

Ruz

ha ha, i just read the last bit as 'your work is shit' ha ha

yeah I was thinking of just the slideshow route,will have a think about it cause it does look quite snazzy