[Portfolio] – Roberto Brambila, Character Artist

monstro

*EDIT 2*
Seems everything is working now, http://www.robertobrambila.com

Thanks for the crit/advice guys!


*EDIT*

Thanks for all of the comments/advice. You all reinforced some of the comments I had previously received and I am in the process of moving over everything to a new design.

http://cargocollective.com/monstro

Hopefully, in the next few hours or a day or two, I will be able to point my domain name to that site (my hosting provider doesn't let me access the A RECORD settings directly).

Again, thanks for your input. Just to restate, I am graduating this week and am looking for an entry level position, paid internship or some freelance/contract work.


Rob
http://www.robertobrambila.com

CrazyMatt

1 Key thing I cannot stress other than to say.

You're website is hard to navigate.

I would change you're flash gallery to a standard html page, because the whole clicking through thing. Would immediately make me just close the website in a heartbeat.

Obviously you want to show everyone what you've got to offer. So keep it as few clicks as possible so I can immediately see what it is you want me to see. Rather than to somehow be amazed at how well you perform in creating a flash based webpage.

Fix this up and I think you'll do just fine without needing to worry if you're portfolio was rejected due to bad web design decisions.

monstro

Hey CrazyMatt,

I've been struggling with this on and off, I keep getting different opinions on it from different people. The only flash on there is on the preview turnarounds (when you see a thumbnail of the work, you put the mouse over it and you get a turnaround), otherwise it's all html/css/javascript.

I've been trying to keep it minimalistic while still having some sense of design. I mean, I have navigation menu on the left hand side and each piece has a "next"/"previous" button. I'm not sure what else I can do other than redoing it. I have a different (design related) portfolio that I might be reverting to eventually -- http://cargocollective.com/monstro

Thanks for your advice.

BrodyB

I'm totally with Matt. For all the cool things the site does, it certainly isn't easy to navigate. It took me a minute to figure out you had more than two pieces in your 3D Art section. That has got to be changed. Also keep in mind, some recruiters may not have Flash installed.

Tumerboy

GAH! TOO FANCY! Make a simple HTML page with thumbnails to pages with your work on them. Simple, effective, not annoying.

se7ered

ditto on all that...it's a cool effect but it makes it awkward to navigate...

Jeff Parrott

Yeah I'll echo the website is too complicated. Just make a blog style or straight html. Actually I'd love to see a web portfolio that's just a folder of images and resume. That would be awesome.

monstro

I am making some changes (see 1st post). Hopefully in the next day or so I will get my domain (http://www.robertobrambila.com) to redirect to (http://cargocollective.com/monstro).

Thanks guys!

Tumerboy

better but still a little funky. Having the gallery stick around at the bottom is a bit unnecessary and causes a lot of unwanted scrolling. I'd rather just see the image, and then hit the back button to get back to the gallery. The back button didn't always seem to work either.

monstro

Ok, so I had gotten rid of the thumbnails after each page but I decided I actually liked them so I think I am going to keep them, they add a nice navigation method in my opinion (without having to go back to different pages or as an alternative to the text menu).

Also, I haven't had any issues with the back button (latest version of firefox/internet explorer/and Opera) but I'll look into it.

Thanks.

se7ered

I think the gallery at the bottom is cool...but Tumer is right..the back button functions weird...

BrodyB

Site is MUCH better now!

monstro

Thank you guys for all the help. The simplified version is a lot cleaner and shows off my work in a more efficient way. I'll look into the back buttons like I said, I haven't had problems with it.

A comment I got before was that they were "sticking" but I haven't experienced it myself.