[Portfolio] - POFFINGTON, Paul Poff
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Hey guys my name is Paul Poffenbarger (Poff for short) and I have been on here for little over a year now, and have seen so much amazing talent on this forum, and humbled to be on here with all of you. I am about to graduate in about a week from the Art Institute of Phoenix, and just got my portfolio website up to date. Please feel free to Crit EVERYTHING. ART. LAYOUT. IMG LOADING. DEMO REEL....everything. I know even though I am graduating I still have a lot to learn. So here it goes...have at it
http://paulpoff.com/
Environment Artist....prob should have said that earlier haha.
Here is a building I am working on at the moment.
http://paulpoff.com/
Environment Artist....prob should have said that earlier haha.
Here is a building I am working on at the moment.
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@DI$array- Yeah man modularity is the way to go, thank you for the kind words.
@Baj Singh- Thanks man!
Is their any issues with my website that someone would like to comment on? Load times? Amount of work? Anything I should take down?
And I think collums should be packed differently, because, the texture is too small and looks of lesser quality, then the rest of the building when rendered.
I like the SG though. Man I would kill for that guitar...
And might i ask, how did you approach the hand painted grass textures? Looks super!
I've edited your image in photoshop and applied some colour correction tweaks to give you some ideas. Of course, you can get even better results by combining colour grading with a different lighting setup.
Also, try to use tiledshot 2 (I assume this is UDK?) to get rid of those jaggies. Some parts of the building are quite noisy (especially those ornaments) and they read even worse with all that aliasing.
Hope that helps
For a stylized approach I'd say yours works great - looks like it would fit right in to the Fallout 3 universe of artwork. So I guess it depends on what you're aiming for. Either way, it's still good artwork. ;D
applying for jobs. I am happy to say that I got lucky.
I just recently got hired at Vigil games as a Prop Artist Temp. Another reason why I haven't been able to work on the portfolio. I have been moving and preparing to go to work for weeks. Any way I hope to come back to these peices in my free time, and take all y'alls advice to heart.
@Dragonwalker: there is indeed a second pillar, that is because I made some peices 256 units accross and others are 384 (256+128). Which gave me so weird ending peices. A mistake on my part, but a good catch on yours
@JMYoung: Moody lighting you will get!
@sltrOlsson: Thanks! High polys would be really good, I have been getting that complaint accross the board. I wanted to do one for the building trim, but on the fancy parts I only did one section then repeated it so it kind of ruined the presentation of it. Thank you though I will keep this in mind, Maybe I will get the pillar up or something.
- about the grass, it was actually a luck of chance is looked like poo, until I tried to make it tileable. I will try to remember to post the layers up later its only about 8 or them
@teaandcigarettes: You hit the nail on the head, lighting is something I struggle with constantly. Next time I am in UDK i will tweek it like your version, I think I just need to mess with the post process.
-btw I LOVE your work
@jeffro: Tiled shot is something I completely forgot about. Thanks!
@Joshua Stubbles: I did a bit of mesh painting with a dirt texture, that is prob where you are getting the brown from. I decided to make the building concrete instead of marble because I found it more readable and a little more interesting than the marble.
here is the actual building I used as reference:
It is the San Fransico, Wells Fargo building on Grant St. I didn't quite nail it, for instance I really wanted to do that bend, but alas do to time restraints I couldn't.
Again thank you guys so much I hope to post some more work soon!
-btw half life series, is my all time favorite so big thumbs up from me on your icon
@yodude87: Indeed you do.
@Mio,chrisradsby,sketch81: Thanks so much you guys!
@JMYoung: Thanks, it is really nice to be back.
@TerraBite: Thanks, nice to put a face to a name now. BTW your Lugi is simply the best
@Wombatinahat: Somehow in the last day or so, my hosting has put my site down with no warning. I am in the process of trying to get it back up soon