Character Artist Portfolio Website - Andrew Quintiliani
I am a character artist. I do poly modeling, zbrush sculpting and texturing mostly of creatures or characters.
Please take a few minutes to watch my demo reel or poke around through my other work. I also try to keep my blog updated as I work on new things.
Any critiques or comments large or small would be really helpful!
Thank you for your time!
www.AndrewCQ.com
Please take a few minutes to watch my demo reel or poke around through my other work. I also try to keep my blog updated as I work on new things.
Any critiques or comments large or small would be really helpful!
Thank you for your time!
www.AndrewCQ.com
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Anywho, you have some really solid work mate. The morphs were the best. The site is pretty clunky cause of all the flash. Loads slow and is bothersome at times. Your work is in a jumble of different places to. Clean up the navigation by putting everything in one place so I dont have to search for your stuff. Heck, getting rid of 3/4ths of your flash would help a lot.
a reel is up to you, but i would make it a side note on your page, not a front loading piece to your portfolio
remove every last one of those turntables or make them optional links
a turntable for most of your models with little still images is a big NO, NO, NO
the site is damn cool shit man... click, bing, beep, click... i dig it from a "cool beans" type of thing, but remember that this is your portfolio for showing your work that best represents the position you would like to achieve in the industry. are you applying for a web development position? if not, then remove the flashy lights and sounds.
reasons for all this bash smash trash? there's really only one large encompassing reason....
you are not the one who will be sifting through apps, typing in urls, critiquing skills and qualifications based on resum
If youre going for a character artist position at a game development studio read on. If not you can ignore the rest of my post.
As for your work you have some nice high poly modeling going on there but where's the game ready stuff? You are looking to work on games right? It just doesn't feel like you have a finished game asset in sight man. The busts are cool as is, in my opinion. Here we go for the rest.
Bare vs Monki- I wouldnt start with this for your organic characters section maybe even remove it because its not as interesting or impressive as the rest of your work.
Demon Steed- Cool texture it render it real time, not sure about the Tri count for your base mesh, is that what were seeing normal mapped or are we just seeing the high poly zbrush sculpt?
Goya's Saturn- Cool texture it render it real time, not sure about the Tri count for your base mesh, is that what were seeing normal mapped or are we just seeing the high poly zbrush sculpt?
*I'm feeling like a broken record here man Im sure you get the point by now*
Rhino- Um... are we seeing a model thats 4,322 tris man or the wires of your base mesh overlaid on your zbrush sculpt.
Wraith- Whoa textures really can we see the flats how big are they 1024's 2048's? WTF 14,593 tri's man you could probably get the same amount of detail with half that amount of tris. Thats why you make a normal map man.
Your hard surface stuff is cool but where are the textures man. You got to at least texture the tanks and vehicles and get real time renders. The axe and shield could be made into game assets too. Not sure how you feel about the other pieces they're nice but not game art yet.
Traditional stuff is cool the level design link doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Youre a pretty good artist all around Andrew your sculpting is sweet but I don't know if you can get by on zbrush sculpting alone man. I think most character artists at game studios create the textures for their characters as well. Landing a character artist position is pretty difficult and doing it right out of school in this economy might be harder Im not sure if its ever considered an entry level position. So you really need to take some of this work the extra few yards and make them into finished game assets.
Hopefully you've heard of Dominance War you should check it out if you haven't there's a lot you can learn just by looking at the entries and reading the judges comments.
Best of luck with landing a job just keep working hard and you'll get there.
I'm not sure why you would include basemesh tri counts. (a) basemeshes shouldnt be in tris (b) what significance does your basemesh or it's tri count have to the finished product from everyone else's standpoint?
Honestly it just kind of comes off feeling like you are lacking real-time models and you needed a number to include with the sculpts. Just show them as sculpts and if you are lacking real-time models, do some more.
The department gets around 250 applications every month, just for artists. They hardly bother clicking on links as half of the stuff is crap, amateur work. Applying straight to the company by post and maybe spending some time on your packaging will make you stand out from the crowd.
Honestly, your website content takes ages to load. It's so nicely designed, but I don't think employers really care about this as they're too busy to look at them.
Hope this helps!
i think you seem to be better at hard surface, nice one !
Your work is good, but your first post seems to indicate that you know it, which is a separate topic in itself, and I only bothered to wait through the overindulgent title sequence because previous posts said your work was decent.
One of the bust morphs looked very much like Nixon, which I'm hoping was intentional - great piece. Also, if you must have turntable animations to satisfy your tutors, at least make sure that the speed is uniform - the white mage seemed to take much longer than the wraith, even though I thought the wraith was the stronger piece. Stills would have been nice to show off all that detail.
Cut all the fluff from your site, and focus on your work.
Seriously, what is it with the Art Institutes and turntables?
also.. at 1440x900 on my secondary screen..in firefox
this is what it looks like couldn't even see your name.
[IMG]http://www,jeremylindstrom.com/scraps/site2.jpg[/IMG]
The website:
I know basically nothing about flash, html, or web design in general. So I grabbed a gallery template thing and started posting stuff. I will be removing the majority of the turntables and dropping in more stills to make it less clunky. I thought it was maybe just my schools slow internet, but if you guys are having trouble loading it, then something must be done. Fixed the thing where my name gets cut off and figured out how to turned off sound effects.
The reel:
Most of the stuff is low poly model from maya and then sculpted in zbrush, obviously. Most of the pieces didn't really have any end goal, or purpose outside of practicing my knowledge of anatomy and sculpting. So, I agree, retopologizing some stuff and having finished pieces would definitely be the next things I do. Textures as well.
I also realize the basemesh poly counts are pretty pointless. I was kind of made to put them in there, and to list the tris. Again, when I re-topo stuff this will be a total non issue.
Squashed and stretched some of the turnarounds to get same speed.
After I posted this thread, I checked back about a day later and assumed no one really had any feedback, lack of interest. So, I kinda forgot about it. I'm glad I came back and checked. Really great feedback, seems pretty honest and didn't sugar coat it. Since I'm done with school, I will be working full time on finding an entry level position, and making an entirely new reel. OR maybe just stick with stills.
Either way you guys have really given me some work to do!
THANK YOU!!
*Edit, wait..you do know how to bake normals right? Or are all these renders just of your sculpts with lights?
Very good if you want to impress your teachers. Not too effective if you are looking for a job. Ive been a web designer and graphic artist for a few years, before i got into 3d. And i think i know a thing or two about design. With that in mind, your website is super cool. However, it is too cool, too flasshy, too busy. Toss it to the side and rebuild it from the ground up. In order to present your work better everything needs to be RIGHT THERE. I went on to your site and it took me a while to find where to click. Then i ended up getting frustrated and just ended up clicking on the reel ( to kinda speed up the process)
Your work is very nice! I really liked most of it. But i too kept waiting to see game models and their wireframes. I dont think i saw any texture sheets. Maybe some stills in the unreal engine. You definitely need those!!
Also, marmoset can be used to display some really nice stuff!
Also, since you are a modeler, it will be best if you use flash movies with turn tables.
If you dont know how to make them, take your time to learn. Rather than doing a full flashsite i would recomend just doing a plain html site. Find somone who knows what their doing to give you a hand and get it done.
Pick a tune that is enjoyable by most. I had to turn down my volume because i didnt feel like it fit most of the pieces.
Try implementing things such as ligthbox or multibox. Things that will literary minimize the complexity of your site and maximize the flexibility to upload new updates.
Overall, nice porfolio! Just make your presentation better!
You've got stuff in there with a lot of potential, just finish it! Retopo, bake etc and get some proper game art in there.
I have to say this though... and I don't mean to cause offence, but it is so sad to see yet another graduate who has clearly been given no career focused guidance at school. Just following the same old syllabus. I cringe a little every time I see posts from people fresh outta school.
I'd much sooner give tens of thousands of £ to a number of people right on this forum than ever give a penny to most of the schools/colleges offering 'Game Art / 3D Courses'.
Rant aside though, fire up those files again, retopo the sculpts and bake some normals. As I said, you've got stuff in that reel with a lot of potential for awesomeness.
"No one likes your music."
That isn't to say its bad (i kinda like pipe-reedy & flute stuff), its just that what you think "is cool, and fits perfect!!" doesn't. There is some interesting stuff in your reel, but i had to fight to keep watching. Thankfully, in the "age of the internet" where students aren't learning how to cut their demo reels to VHS anymore, there is an easy-to-reach mute button in videos.
Just wanted to say that this site, as well as the people who commented on my reel, really helped me out a lot! Thanks for being so honest!
It helped me land a sweet gig at Tripwire that I have been working at since about oct of 2010.
Thanks again, couldn't have done it without polycount and it's awesome members!