Portfolio and Future Work!

Weazel

Hey Everyone, i'm in the process of creating a portfolio / website and i was hoping i could gather some feedback on what i have achieved in personal projects and group modules during my years studying Computer Games Design.

My YouTube site can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/RennFarnell?feature=mhee

I'm planning on creating a show-reel to present what is seen as my best work by the industry here at PolyCount!

I hope you enjoy watching the videos i have created, there's a few things i am yet to create videos for such as Uscript modules (i created a prototype for a top down hell fire style game, and a first person spaceship shooter)

Thanks for your time!

Kyuzo

i'm not a pro, but animations leaves unnatural feeling, your creature act's not like something live and weird sometimes, like charge(i think that was charge) that looks like your creature broke his neck and die. Or idle animation. it looks like you made cycle where it pushed down, and then reversed animation, looks bad for me.

Texture look unfinished. You made a lot of work, but didn't achieve really cool result in anything except sculpt, it's not the best i'v seen, but you on right way.

Only thing i would advise, don't try to make everything in one time, nail something one or two, creature creation and texturing for example, make your best and you will get a job. Good companies don't need generalists who can make all by half, they need specialists.

Also read http://www.thejonjones.com/2005/10/07/your-portfolio-repels-jobs/ and http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryPortfolio
it helps a lot to understand my point.

Weazel

okay thanks man, that module was insane to be honest, but i cant moan its just the way things were at that time :P

Im on exactly the same page, it seems like a "jack of all master of nothing" piece at the moment, what di you think of the other videos? (as i said im trying to create a show reel based on what people think are the "best" pieces)

Thanks again =]

Weazel

Hey! I made a compilation / showreel of my work over the three years, there are a few modules that arent included such as design documents and scripting that i never got round to recording, but here it is, hope you like =]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCUYuTm25c"]Renn Farnell - Staffordshire University ShowReel - YouTube[/ame]