[portfolio] Time to update
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Hey everyone Im workin on my portfolio and would love some input on how I could improve on the work that I have currently, or things that maybe I should add.
weather its the site, what I should show for the work that is there, or ways to improve my stuff.
thanks in advanced, any cc is always welcome!
www.hughmccullom.com
weather its the site, what I should show for the work that is there, or ways to improve my stuff.
thanks in advanced, any cc is always welcome!
www.hughmccullom.com
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But to tell you the truth, your texture work is good but what lets every single piece down is your lighting. I also think the cathedral is more striking and should be the first thing you see. Back to lighting, it's almost as if you've used the same light settings for each piece (minus cathedral) and it ruins your presentation. Where's the striking colours?
Take a look at these portfolios and try comparing screenshots and asking what yours lacks.
http://paulsvoboda.net/index.htm
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4361936/folio/index.html
http://microwavetower.blogspot.com/
Other than that your architectural skills are impressive. But yeah, include wireframes and textures.
Habboi: yeah the house was still being finished by the time I started applying and I got the job before I finished and never looked back but now I want to get my work to a hire level. So I really need to focus on the light to enhance the detail.
Mgoblue412: I chose to have the images open in a separate window for the same explanation from Mik212, I guess I could have the images open over top of the portfolio so you could hit back but I think having the images load while you look at the site works a bit better, and I think light boxes limit image size to much
thanx for the help any other ideas are always welcome
Or middle mouse it like most people. It has been a long time since I've seen someone open tabs with right click :S
Lighting definitely needs some work in all your shots. The WoW style house could really be improved with simple lighting fixes and turning off SSAO.
Cathedral textures need some work. You might want to some vertex blending on that.
The jungle temple middle floor texture is repeating too much. The trees need a ton of work too. The up close shot of them is hurting the scene.
The building is cool. Prolly just show off the building on it's own without the city. Be nice to see it larger.
As far as the site design goes lose the banner. That seems pretty dated. Otherwise once you chop down the amount of shots of each piece down it should work a lot better.
The cathedral ill work on the textures and I want to make a few more peaces for it
the jungles textures and peace could use some some serious polish/ rework
as for the building, I did this project more like and architectural presentation but I would like the surrounding building to look a bit better so Ill be working on that as well
and the banner shall go I was thinking the same thing
Thanx jeffro
Well. That's the thing, I have lightbox on my website too (ugh) and tried wheel-button clicking it, and it wouldn't open. I know some plugins work with middle-button, but I have lightbox on my site and it doesn't (unless it's an old version and I didn't update, which could be..).
That's why I said you had to right-button and look for the open in new tab option :P
Edit: I had to dig waaay back on my blog to find entries using lightbox (I just post 950px wide images now), but try middle-button clicking here:
http://mik2121.com/portfolio/3d/body-sculpt-study
In my computer doesn't work, at least.
Edit 2: Went to Lightbox JS' website:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/
It doesn't work there either :P For normal pics I know middle-mouse button works. But we are talking about lightbox here
Mik2121: Now that I know the middle mouse click I like my set up its simple
let me know what you guys think so far of some of the lighting work and mood
I created a new ground some new grass and a new tree
I would vary up the tree size some as well.
working on a few more buildings too, ill post some of that later today
thanx all
The wheelbarrow model isn't as interesting as the well model. Texturing-wise I think you might have a bit too much red in the wood parts. Otherwise they look good so far.
the wood on the objects is the same as on the house so Ill recolor when I have them in the scene and the lighting is more finalized
cheers!
www.hughmccullom.com
all comments are welcome
thanks as always
I would like to salvage it if I can, Im working on creating better lighting on the buildings around the main piece so there less distracting
I feel like it shows my architectural back ground a bit more then any of the other pieces on my site so I would like to save it if I can