[Portfolio] Alec Moody - New layout and content- now with homefront work
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Hey all. Homefront released this morning so I can finally put up my new portfolio website.
www.alecmoody.com
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Really love your portfolio site by the way.
On second thought the gun mount on the hummer looks really simple, it might be like that in real life as well, but it just stood out to me.
Also when looking at another piece I have a small critic.
I think the part in the red "square" I drew, could use some more depth, looks really flat atm, maybe it could use some geo, instead of only normal mapping.
Definitely bookmarking your site
(Sorry, if you did not want critic in this topic)
Edit: Would be nice if you could post the texture flats on your site:poly121:
EDIT: Really really nice renders! Absolutely love the tank, gorgeous piece of work.
StefanH: Yeah I posted the trailer back in January
Jet_Pilot: I shot bracketed 360 panos since the quality is much better that doing it with the mirrored ball technique. I think they are 7 brackets and 8 camera positions.
Is the layout working for everyone? no major issues? How was the load speed? I built the website months ago and have tested it locally a lot but haven't been able to put it online.
-everything on your site is huge, why?
-work towards 1280x720 (works on 3 times as many devices)
-large images and text add nothing
-work is nice
The site is rather huge. It won't display properly (gives vertical scroll) on any screen below 1500 pixels wide. This means that on roughly 4 out of 5 devices you'll get an undesirable experience. I get you're aiming for professionals in a desktop environment, but I would seriously advise you to consider some way(s) to make it work better on average screens. If you've got experience with CSS you can probably figure some things out yourself, if not - ask me, I'm pretty good at making stuff flexible.
One thing that really bugs me is that you use rather huge 651² thumbnails, but still seem incapable of getting the object in it. This is because of 2 main reasons: it's too big, and it's improperly framed. For instance, if you move over the truck a bit, create even the smallest amount of negative space on the right, it'll make the image much calmer. What's more - rendering images that large doesn't even benefit in most cases, in fact it generally detracts. I can see the individual pixels on the grille's star symbol,I can see the jaggies on the wheels, it's not beneficial to the image.
The about page also has overly large text. It's good you use something bigger than the standard 10 or 12 point for better legibility, but 22 pixels is a bit excessive for block text. I don't see a good reason to use images for the text, it kinda wastes space and it's not flexible.
Lastly, http://www.alecmoody.com/Images/anchor_2.gif has some nasty dithering. And the image doesn't need to be that big either.
The photography is sorta meh. The diver looks cool, but the plant ones are rather bad and uninteresting. Personally I don't think 2 cool photos warrant a special section.
Your 3D work itself is ace though, not much to crit. Here's a few nitpicks though:
-BFV flares don't need such detailed caps, flat tops would suffice
-BFV 'wheels' could reduce loops towards the center
-chopper has some illogical drips in places, most notably the windows
-tanker has onviously photosourced headlights, but handpainted tail lights
the work is great, ive seen your stuff around the forum for sometime now and im always impressed. i've been meaning to check out homefront, the work you did for that is awesome. keep it up
Oh please. In practice my website works on the vast majority of users machines that I actually care about. The website doesn't become difficult to use until you drop below 1440x900 and it works awesome on iphones
I'm fixing the dithering on that image though
thanks for the other comments all. I will get some more breakdowns and texture flats on there this week.
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also I like to imagine that the big text is me shouting at everyone who views the page
I'd make sure the objects you're showing fit better in the frame, like so (pretend the scaled/stretched images are from an angle that would fit like so):
Also, don't misunderstand me when I say 'aim for 1280'. By no means I want to tell you not to design for the appropriate target audience (which likely uses 24 inch 1920x1080). I should've clarified that I think you should, simultaneously, aim for backwards compatibility. A simple solution would be to have the images be 50% of the screen width, with a maximum of the current 651 and a minimum of say 580. This way, smaller resolutions (down to 1280) would have a wee bit of clipping or resizing (depending on your choice), but no scrollbar. Something more complex would be a solution along these lines: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448525/Website_experiments/Flexible_Scalingboxes.html.
Again, keep your focus on the important people, but don't forget about the little guy.
And personally, I think it's a BAD IDEA TO YELL AT FUTURE EMPLOYERS!!! RAAAGH! *cough*
Awesome work, that Bradley is sexy!
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Most of the homefront vehicles don't have a high poly source. The client wanted height-map normals for quick turn around.