Steve Cronin 3d artist [portfolio]

G-Saviour18

Hi everyone, just wanted to break away from my normal thread and post a link to my updated portfolio here to see what you all think of the content. Obviously I'm using a Deviant Art made portfolio website at the moment so theres not that much I can do site wise besides basic layout changes.

Anyway I'm labeling myself as a 3D artist for the moment as I'm applying to smaller studios that'll be looking for more general art roles as opposed to the specialised roles of big companies. Hence why I don't have just characters or just level stuff, it's got a bit of everything. Heres the link:

http://stevencronin.daportfolio.com/

Also I can't get rid of that damn homepage thing! Just won't let me do it

Hope you like it

Steve

oobersli

ok, so i'd drop the modular walkway thing or fix it. right now its not very modular friendly. You don't need all those extra pieces and a corner section. Just make a tileable texture in either axis. Also, maybe and try to make a quick high model of it instead of getting your normals from crazybump? might also rethink the strips on the actual walkway, looks very noisy right now.

uv example-



high example-
darker strips are just an idea if you choose to put strips in. although the concept just seems like flat panels.

JustinPunio

As most will say the first page should be your gallery, people like to get there quickly. Of all the free portfolio sites, I think I prefer carbonmade over DA...

But content is good, some really nice sculpted folds on that jumpsuit, really like it ^^

mrturtlepaste

Hey G-Saviour18,

edit: get your resume on there, maybe in a separate page or in your bio?

I am really liking that first sculpt that shows up of Ian. The likeness is spot on. Are you planning on pushing it further?

Anyway, I'm going to agree with oobersli, the walkway is not helping your portfolio much. I think it is great that you want to show the importance of modular assets, but maybe if you revisit it for a couple hours you could really make it shine.

I did a quick paintover to show you a few ideas you could play with.

Jet_Pilot

put your character stuff together and your environment stuff together.

n88tr

I need to see art work or some color on the index page. don't make me look for it
your flash/java thing takes too long to load. I'd just put up the images themselves
Without your header of your name being an artist i would not have known what this website was about. need to show off your work right away!

krisCrash

I was about to say the same, the default page needs ART right away. Even if it's just some teaser thumbnails that link to the gallery.

Also what I have seen in other threads here, your name and email (or a similar specific contact info) should be on EVERY image file. Because an interested employer browsing portfolios may save images, even print them, and later he or she will need to be able to track them back to you.

G-Saviour18

Thanks for the comments

oobersli: the team I made this prop for wanted it done this way, they told me to make a model. As for not needing a corner piece, how?? If its to match the concept it needs one as far as I can see. Also the highpoly model was made, although the strips were photosourced and then converted to greyscale in photoshop before I used the XNormal filter to convert it to a normal map. No crazybump! Although yeah maybe those strips are a little too noisy, I'll try going back to it and change things around. Thanks

JustinPunio: Yeah like I said in my initial post I can't get rid of that at all, I have a carbonmade portfolio too but people bitched about how it compresses images and doesnt leave a named url address for an image lol At least deviant can give you the full res image if you want it so I went with that. Thanks for liking the content though!

mrturtlepaste: Yes I'll have to attach my resume like you said, and yes I will be doing more with the ian mckellen model, theres a few things to correct with the model first though :O I like the paintover though, thank you! I'll give it another look over

Jet_Pilot: Was thinking of that but I decided to go with "best first to least best" rather than completely seperate them, bad idea people? Leave a comment if you think so!

n88tr: I'm with one on that one but I don't really have anything "homepagey" enough to replace the welcome message. I prefered the more professional Welcome over just some random image thrown straight at you. As far as the Java goes, blame Deviant art for that, I can't do anything with that I'm afraid.

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

G-Saviour18

krisCrash: Like I mentioned to n88tr I feel I don't have anything good enough for a homepage, although yeah I best try knocking something together. My details are on every page, my name, email and blog, it's just the two WIP pics at the begining that din't have them, thats because they are WIP. But yes again! I will add my details to them since they're in the portfolio for the moment Thanks!