[Portfolio] Jason Hutchins, Environment Artist
It's recently come to my attention that the money I invested into Wix might actually have been my weakest link, but that's what I'm here to find out from all of you. I set up a website through Wix and have recently heard of all the problems a lot of people have while viewing Wix flash based sites. My question to you is: can you view my site? Is it hard to view? Does it take more than 5 seconds to load? If it loads does it work?
http://www.jasonhutchinscg.com
Since hearing about this threat to my success at finding a job, I've went ahead and built a testing page over at Weebly just to see if it works any better. I found the Weebly layout harder to use, but it does actually load in only 2 seconds as compared to the 5 it takes for my Wix page.
http://www.jasonhutchinscg.weebly.com
I'm hoping you all can lead me down the right path, either with the right host or content/layout or whatever. I'm a recent graduate trying to become a prop or environment artist, and can use all the help/advice I can take to make this dream happen. Thank you all for your time, this whole hosting thing never occurred to me as being a problem .. but I guess those are the types of things that usually are.
http://www.jasonhutchinscg.com
Since hearing about this threat to my success at finding a job, I've went ahead and built a testing page over at Weebly just to see if it works any better. I found the Weebly layout harder to use, but it does actually load in only 2 seconds as compared to the 5 it takes for my Wix page.
http://www.jasonhutchinscg.weebly.com
I'm hoping you all can lead me down the right path, either with the right host or content/layout or whatever. I'm a recent graduate trying to become a prop or environment artist, and can use all the help/advice I can take to make this dream happen. Thank you all for your time, this whole hosting thing never occurred to me as being a problem .. but I guess those are the types of things that usually are.
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Images take forever to load, can't be saved
The font on the buttons on the side is blurry and illegible. Spend time on YOUR ART not your web site. just a simple image gallery.
It's unfortunate that portfolios like this are still being produced. If we could find the source of this misinformation and stop it the world would be a better place. Now read this http://www.jonjones.com/2005/10/07/your-portfolio-repels-jobs/
I honestly didn't even look at your work on the first link. I just closed the site once it all loaded.
The second link is better. But a full movie? Nope. Just do screens and wireframe shots with texture flats. Movies are neato if you have particles and post stuff with some environment animation in UDK or CryEngine. But don't worry about doing anything in a demo reel format for getting jobs in this industry. Just nice images. Main thing is having kickass work and then your site can just be images in a folder (I've seen that work before actually).
Take down the flash site and rework it a bit. Do a few new amazing pieces and pimp this again in a few months.
Sidenote: Gauss brought up a good point in one of these portfolio pimp threads that I've honestly never done. Post shots of your work in the first post of this thread along with a link to your site so people know what your work looks like.
@ cholden: I went ahead and read over your link and have started branding my render images and started setting up the new site for the portfolio to be the landing page .. which is just a big page of thumbnails that can be opened.
@ jeffro: I took down the demo reel, it was just something my school made us do so I figured if they worked in the industry maybe there was a reason for making it .. other than making the school an extra month of student loans.
@Dan!: actually, it is the first thing that came up when I google'd for a site, that and it was the easiest thing to use that I could find. As far as the layout of the second link: I went ahead and made the landing page the portfolio, so I'm not really sure why you had multiple clicks before but now you'll have 0.
Again, thank you all for looking over my stuff, this really isn't something I thought would be a big deal .. I just didn't think it through enough I guess.
-Drop the flash site (simple thumbnails is all you need)
-Contact info on your images(website, name) + a resume, contact info on your site(easy to find)
-Best work only (on your second site layout the last two pieces were my favorite and the first couple pieces weren't on the same level, either cut them or add them to the end)
-And finally the most important, just keep creating more art. Make a site that supports like 5 to 6 pieces and just cycle the old ones out as better pieces are made.
Keep up the hard work and don't get discouraged!