[Portfolio] Daehi Kim - Environment and prop artist

Daehi

Hi polycounters. I'm a MFA student and I'm in the second to the last semester.

I made this website for apply some of summer internships but not went well so far

I was shy to show my portfolio to someone, but I feel that it's time to open it in order to check my current status and admit it.

Any of critics or comments are welcome about allover works and website designs. And also any advise or suggestions for my future works would be appreciated.

Hope you enjoy my works. Thank you

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>>> www.daehi.com

Junco

The sci fi hallway is my favorite. Its clean well designed and the you hit the nail on the head with the textures. I dont really have enough experience to go on but adding more Hi-Poly realistic game art with a high "cool" factor would expand your job opportunities. Again just a thought

dpaynter26

Nice work, nice site layout good and simple, you should probably put atleast your name on your images in case any recruiter wants to save the image and goes back to it later, they're not going to remember who made it

Daehi

Junco - I'm very happy to hear that someone likes my work. Thank you for your comments!! and helpful suggestions. I'm still doing some high-poly stuffs working on. I hope show them really soon

dpaynter26 - Thank you so much for your encourage comments. I'll try to put some information in the image.

BradMyers82

I'm really surprised you are having trouble, I think your work is great dude. The middle piece has some weird spec going on where its shining too much in the recessed areas, but I really love the hand painted stuff at the top.

Great work, and just keep applying and working hard. I'm sure you will eventually find something.

GOBEE

I've seen your work before. Don't know where, but I remember the first render for sure. That's good, your work is memorable. I was impressed by your textures. Very nice!

Relax, it will take some time before you get hired. But with your hand painting skills, it shouldn't be too long. Make sure you are also applying for Texture Artist positions on top of the usual Environment/Prop art positions. You're born to texture. And you're in a great area too if you're still in San Fran. Did you try Zynga already? Good luck!

Edit: Also look into creating a LinkedIn page. Get your name out there in every way you can. Start networking with people in your area.

Neuropozyne

love that sci fi hallway looks great and your textures all look good

Orangeknight

I have one suggestion, instead of having every image on one page instead put it into sections. So have one of those pictures and if you click it, it goes into a new page with more pictures. It just has to much stuff, loads slower, and also just takes to long to scroll down to.

snake85027

your handing painting textures are awesome.

Daehi

BradMyers82 // Maybe my works not reach to their needs yet thank you for the encourage comments and point out weird spec problems (it's probably recessed area of the pipes?)


GOBEE // Oh, I'm very happy to hear that someone remember my work!! thanks a lot! and also thank you for your valuable recommends. I'll do that.

Neuropozyne // I'm really happy that you like it I have some plan to build more sci-fi stuffs in the my future works.

Orangeknight // Oh, that's a good idea. Actually I'll make section for each project when I update more work. Thank you!

snake85027 // Thank you so much! your textures are awesome ,too.

Samfisher84

Awsome hand painted stuff!

Daehi

Samfisher84 // Thanks a lot!!

praetus

I really love the hand painted feel of textures and you nailed it in that first environment. Good job.

JamieRIOT

I think your work is great, especially the fantasy scene. You are very good at hand-painted textures; very impressive.

Daehi

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Forg3d

Alot of your stuff looks great man, but I would narrow it a little bit. Like the robot above, I would remove. Only show your best work that you're most proud of. I would do the same with your 2d portfolio as well. You want to make it quick when someone looks at your portfolio and show them your best stuff first. And leave them no reason to doubt you. If you put unfinished or lower quality work in there, they might wonder.

Daehi

praetus // Thank you so much~! I love your hand painted works too.

JamieRIOT // Thank you!! Jamie. Your comment encourage me a lot.

Forg3d // I completely agree with you Forg. I need to more works on the my website. Thank you so much for the valuable advice.