[Portfolio] Josh Dina

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

Hey guys,
So I finally got to make a portfolio of my own. WOOT. Before I start saying to much, I would like to thank ARTEM VOLCHIK, Timothee Yeramian (RoosterMap), Lonewolf3d, and a few others for being an inspiration to me through out my modeling career. Really helped me get here.

With that in mind, when I created my portfolio, I looked at designs/ideas/schemes that were used on many peoples portfolios here at poly count. So maybe some similarities might come up, but I tried to be as creative as possible and make everything my own.

Please critique my website or feel free to comment on the work itself in the website. Any post to me is a good post. Really appreciate it! Thank you in advance!

http://www.JoshDina.com/

(Don't forget to scroll down to see Transformers Wheelie WIP).

Razgriz · Dec 2011

I love the layout. I know I've personally taken inspiration from several of those you mentioned both in my work and particularly in my website design, and I think it's helped you just as well here. I assume it's still undergoing some work, as the Main and Demo pages are the same.

The biggest complaint I would level, which I'm sure you're aware of, is that only the first project really feels complete enough, and there is a severe lack of content. The only other two projects are a HP model and a WIP, which probably shouldn't be in a portfolio. I've got a couple lone HP models in my portfolio myself, unfinished, but I really think it's good here to take the pros advice and only use projects that are finished to some extent. So, in desperate need of content here - quality over quantity, of course, but you should probably aim for finishing another 3-4 solid projects to fill this thing out.

Like I said, I love the design of the site. Simple, loads quickly, my only complaint is that I personally hate the stuffy, chubby font thats crowding out those boxes on the right. I would use the same font that you have in your header.

Hope this helps!

roosterMAP · Dec 2011

Its good, but I feel like you dont have enough...

Pieces 1 and 2 are fantastic, but the robot feels unfinished. I think you should pose it and make a sexy vray render like you did for the motorcycle.

Also, you only have one assets that illustrates your knowledge in baking and texturing. To fix this, I would make a small scene in UDK or just a few game assets rendered in a real time engine.

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

Thank you Razgriz! I definitely agree with what you have said. I am working away here trying to get more content for my portfolio. Hopefully it will help bring out the portfolio when finished.
I have changed the text, and imo it has drastically changed the feel of the main page. For the better. Thank you, greatly appreciate the crit/help!

@Rooster; Wheelie isn't complete, but when he is, I will definitely get a Vray render up and running.

Like I told Razgriz, I'm in the works with trying to get more pieces to show ( I have a few that are 80% there, just need touching up on).
Btw thank you for commenting man!

Updates:
-Changed info text type on main page
-Removed non needed spacings on main page
-Fixed Resume PDF/Word Links (Now working)
-Edited Resume

Any other crits? Comments? Really appreciate any comment about the site/work! Thanks in advance!

Edit; oh and I will re-work the About me page to have more info.

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

So I applied to 4 universities. I got one reply from a university I really want to go to, and I was asked to hand in 10 pieces of my work, 7 of which are really specific 2d requests. Sadly 2d isn't my strong point, so I would appreciated brutal critique when the time comes.

Fixed up some more things. Anyways, this was suggested by someone I know, was wondering what you guys think. Do you guys think the current website main page is better or this one:
New:
http://www.joshdina.com/index%20-%20Copy.html
Current:
http://www.JoshDina.com

OH and here is a little treat. So far about 5 hours of work, yes there are many mistakes and things I want to fix.. but I think this will make a fine edition to my portfolio once I have it textured.

Based off of the concept:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/001-1.jpg
*Please note that I know about a lot of the differences between the concept and my model. I am slowly trying to fix these up.

Comments crits on the website/my latest work?

Micah · Dec 2011

Looks good man, but the shape overall, I think, seems simplistic/boring. Needs something that make it intresing to look at.
sorry about sounding vague, but I can't say what it is that you need XD

LRoy · Dec 2011

The texture on the bike really drags the otherwise awesome highpoly down. It's a lot of flat colors and drowns out all the nice detail you have there.

You're applying to game studios?

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

Thanks Micah. I posted the concept I am following.

@LRoy; I am applying to literally anything and everything (including freelance).

Looks like I am going to Uni first though.
As far as the bike is concerned, yea, it prob does look like a lot of flat colors, because that's what it is. This is a high poly, I did not make a low poly to texture.
Edit; Btw, out of curiosity, is there a reason you are asking why I am applying to studios?

LRoy · Dec 2011

Yeah it seems like your work is more geared towards previz/commercials than games. You don't have any wireframes or texture flats showing.

Game assets require much lower specs to work in a game engine.

Also, I would nix the dates. It makes it seem like it took 4 months per model, which even if you did, you probably would benefit from not mentioning.

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

As stated above from other comments, I am trying to work on showing more low poly assets.

As far as the dates go, it says the month/year they were made. When you click on the model, it states how long I took on each, for example the top 2 only took 2 weeks. Not really sure where you are getting 4 months though.

Thanks for the feedback.

Joshflighter · Dec 2011

Small updates:

Merry Christmas Guys!~

Edit; so its brought to my attention that I did this the lazy way and it shows. I think I might give up on this model and move onto something else. heh.

Joshflighter · Jan 2012

I had to an Art Test for a freelance gig. I did this in 12 hours as I was being timed on how long it would take me to submit the piece. So yea, I definitely see things that could have been done better, but in this short amount of time, I am happy.

P.S. they only wanted high poly, so I will not be doing any low poly for this. Time to get hauling on something new.

roosterMAP · Jan 2012

dude, ur fuckin fast.
looks rly good and clean. tho there's no real noticeable separation between the rims of the wheels and the rubber.

Joshflighter · Feb 2012

Haha thanks.

Also, Yea, I just noticed.

Doing this for a friends mod:
(It's a halo covenant device)

Alberto Rdrgz · Feb 2012

your high poly work improved a lot! good work.

roosterMAP · Feb 2012

always a blast to see your work! Love the covi look. very nice shapes.
Tho it kinda looks like its got a little rest for your iphone. maybe its a speaker from the future? haha

raul · Feb 2012

awesome stuff! Keep it up!

Joshflighter · Feb 2012

Thanks guys!
So I used to use Xnormal to make my normals, but today I stopped using it. Instead, I learned how to use 3ds max and man... I am glad I have. Next thing is texturing and fixing up small errors.

The model is 6k tri's. My limit for the mod is 10k tri's, so I'm pretty happy. I see lots of places that I could have reduced even more, but I'm under the limit as it is.

gsokol · Feb 2012

Hey man,

Lookin good! I really like your website layout. Nice and clean, and I like how you have the info on the side of the thumbnails.

Main thing about your portfolio, and the work that you have shown....is that you don't have anything thats really finished. Seems like you do the high poly, and bake a few things, but your really lacking when it comes to textures. Everything that you have textured right now is just solid colors. Maybe texturing the halo thing that you are currently working on would be a good start.

Keep it up man!

Joshflighter · Feb 2012

You are dead on with the critique. That is what I have been struggling with, so that is why I am now not modeling anything new and instead working with what I have.
I am hoping this will lift the portfolio a couple notches.
Btw, thanks!

Joshflighter · Feb 2012

So now I realize how bad my low poly is. I will try and distribute my polies better with my next model

This is my first attempt at real texturing, but the metal parts are not done. Still very much WIP:

CnC welcome.

ysalex · Feb 2012

Are the hexagons only in the texture, or do they affect the spec as well? Could be a nice effect with the sidelight like that.

Joshflighter · Jun 2012

A friend of mine, bobblehob, gave me a concept and so I decided to model it. Been awhile since I modelled, so this is kinda getting me back on track.

Concept: http://www.bobble.tucker933.com/edit1.png
Still a partial wip, high poly wise. Still some things to fix/touch up:

Joshflighter · Mar 2013

Got my new portfolio up and running, I based it a lot of Bulent Shik work.

www.JoshDina.com

Videos are not on the site at the moment, I will have to work those in somehow.
Some new goodies in it:
Sorry photobucket is decreasing the quality, just look on my site for the more HD versions.

jordan.kocon · Mar 2013

Maybe I am just failing, but when I click on a project on your site, the image it shows is super small (like 600x400 pixels or something) and there is no way to enlarge the image that I can see. Also the pictures, although very small, load fairly slowly, which leads me to believe they are in fact large images, but just displaying small. I'm viewing in google chrome btw.

Joshflighter · Mar 2013

Yea, the way it is set up, it auto resizes, sadly a bit to small. I will try and adjust this.

please let me know if there are any other problems, thanks!

Edit; New size of gallery is being updated, should be up in a few minutes

DWalker · Mar 2013

On the new home page, the final entry seems like an odd man out - remaining monochrome on mouse over instead of changing to a colored version like the other 2, giving very little indication when it is the selected item. Perhaps having the unselected version in shadow would work until you finish texturing it. Perhaps a "Coming Soon" banner in a corner or "Under Construction" tape would work to add a bit of color.

The background image in your original pages is too noisy - it'd be fine in more limited areas but is distracting when filling the entire screen.

I'd like to see more information for each of the projects - polygon counts for everything, textures and texture sizes,and tools used in the creation/rendering are pretty typical. You should also consider providing texture sheets and wireframes.

The slow fade between images in the galleries is nice, but drives me nuts; that's probably just a personal preference. Also, you should have some sort of index - e.g. "1 of 6" - to improve the user's experience.

The images for the 2D pages are too large. I understand the desire to show off your work, but most people want to take in the entire image at once. rather than having to scroll around. Design it so everything fits on a standard (1280x1024) screen, then let the user click to enlarge. I'm also not a big fan of automatic slideshows, but again that's probably a matter of personal preferences.

Joshflighter · Mar 2013

I am not sure what you mean by the final entry, but as far as the rest of the critique, right on! Thanks, I will get working on it tonight.

Yea, I assumed the art section would resize like the rest of my sections, but apparently not.

gsokol · Mar 2013

Hey man

The slow loading of images drives me nuts...it really does make it painful to sift through your images.

I might suggest you just display the images all on the page so we can scroll through them.

Also, why isnt your halo covenent thing anywhere in here? lol that think is pretty cool.

Joshflighter · Apr 2013

Sadly work is taking almost all my time, so I get to model a bit here and there. Going to re-work my portfolio gallery ect, so that it loads faster and you can scroll through it.

Joshflighter · Apr 2013

Removed

joshmtyler · Apr 2013

Your name freaks me out because my name is Josh and my mother's name is Dina.

Joshflighter · Apr 2013

joshmtyler wrote: »

Your name freaks me out because my name is Josh and my mother's name is Dina.

Hah, thats funny.

PogoP · Apr 2013

On a slightly more relevant note... Great work, Josh

Joshflighter · Apr 2014

Thanks Pogo!

Hey guys, working on this side project. I had a night off from work, so I wanted to see what I could do in that time. I spent about 9 hours or so on this so far. Concept truck is by Mike Hill. He has a lot of awesome concepts, so check him out! (He has given me permission to use his concept).

Oh and I didn't block this out. Lol. $:\$
Keyshot and Max grabs:

Joshflighter · Apr 2014

Update for now.

JustGarry · Apr 2014

Hey Josh, I know this isn't really a portfolio feedback thread anymore, however just to let you know that I clicked through to your page to have a look and Chrome is warning may that there is Malware ahead, so just a heads up.

Joshflighter · Apr 2014

Hmm, that is odd. I just received the same thing!
All it had was a image saying "Under Maintenance" or something like that. $:\$
Thanks for the heads up!

rambooze · Apr 2014

Yeah I remember this concept. It's awesome realization so far.

Higuy · Apr 2014

JOSHY

We need to catch up sometime. This looks fantastic!

roosterMAP · Apr 2014

FANTASTIC WORK!!!
Looks great!
We need to catch up! Same wth you, higuy.

Joshflighter · May 2014

Thanks guys!
@Higuy and roosterMAP; Thanks! Ya, it's been too long!

Tiny little updates:

jsargent · May 2014

I also cant get to your folio because of Malware, chrome is blocking it. Awesome high poly stuff though

limeforce · May 2014

Hey!
Firefox is flagging your portfolio as somehow malicious for me as well. The work that I'm actually able to see is nice though.

Joshflighter · May 2014

Thanks guys! Ya, I have to delete everything off my hosted server and hope they re-scan the site. I don't understand why this is happening. Hopefully I can get to it soon. Work is not giving me much time.

Small updates:

I am trying to decide if I want to make a low poly and put this into UE4. Not sure yet.

Rhoutermans · May 2014

I think it looks a bit like a high tech stapler on wheels :P
j/k tho it looks amazing

I'd love to see a low poly of this one! ~

Joshflighter · May 2014

Haha, I can sorta see that. Hurr.

So I updated my portfolio layout. I wanted it as SIMPLE as possible. I think I really like this look. Renders are all temporary, since they are all screen shots. And resume does not work. This is mostly a layout test. Let me know if the site is still blocked. I had Google rescan it.

www.JoshDina.com

fayesmith · May 2014

Wow, Avast antivirus does not like your website. Chrome did block it from opening because of 'malware', but now it loads, and Avast says 'threat has been detected'.

The work you posted here though is really good

Joshflighter · May 2014

Thanks Fayesmith!
This is weird. None of my friends are getting any errors and online scanners are not detecting anything anymore. Can you try it again and let me know if it is still occurring?
Thanks!

Edit: Can I have anyone who is encountering the page warning, please let me know? And possibly what country you are accessing from?

Thanks!

Shrike · May 2014

The truck thing looks nice and its well executed, but something about the proportions is strange. It looks very small, like an ATV / Quad bike. I dont know what to change, but maybe put a scale example in some of the pictures like a human silhouette so it dosnt look as wierd. Maybe its the tires giving a false impulse but I cant tell for sure.
If I imagine myself standing next to it, I cannot think of tires that would have dimensions and grip like that. Theyre like small tires that got scaled up. Also a bump map / displacement / detail normal would help defining the size, right now it looks like a toy.

Joshflighter · May 2014

Hey Shrike; It is meant to look like a ATV actually. I know what you mean, when I looked at the concept, I thought the same thing. But it is meant to be a off-road atv, with a futuristic design.

http://heavyunitdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/z-truck-matador-front.jpg

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