[Portfolio] - Dayle Hodgson-Hard Surface/Environment Artist
So, this is my showreel thus far. Ill be graduating from the University of Hertfordshire this year and will be seeking employment. ANY crit would be appreciated. Working on my site as we speak.
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Other people have said that the gas station is the weak link. Im going to keep working on it and try and salvage something. Cheers.
Thanks for the honest crit. A lot of people have picked at the seat. Chocolaty is definitely the best though
The vespa is being used for a short student film so i think a new seat is top of the list. Thanks again.
The first shot of the vespa (the still image). If you are going to show that at all I would almost want it to be a full beauty shot. And I don't think we need to sit there as long as I was made to. I got pretty bored pretty quick and then it changed to a wire shot of the same still image. You could probably jump to the turntable a lot quicker.
The turntable of the vespa probably could take up the entire screen. I don't know that you need 2 things on screen. I like seeing the wires and just normal but I would rather see it on the one turning and I would rather see the vespa make at least a full rotation.
I say one shot because then you can get the turn table shot a lot larger and really slap people with the awesomeness of your art.
I think your name should always be in the same spot. It bothered me how it moved.
And I don't know if you even need your texture sheets in there. They are not serving any purpose. We can't see them so all they do is take up space. The texture sheets could probably be something that could be left for the website.
All that aside. Pretty nice work man. It wasn't too long. Couldn't hurt to be longer if you take the things suggested and let people look at the work a little closer. People would then be more forgiving for it being slightly longer.
thanks.
took a better shot of my vespa, going to take the crit and scrap the "2 on a screen" thing that's going on and just have the vespa center.
Made lots of changes to my showreel. please crit
Nice work all the same
Thanks for the compliment
it's so that you can further alienate your potential employers by overlaying terrible music. it also makes it harder for them to easily find a piece of your art they like and focus on it for longer than a couple of seconds.
truly showreels are the last bastion of the budding artist.
well after showing my reel to a hand full of employers none of them had anything bad to say and many of them went back through the reel to look at bits again. i also take a portfolio with me that shows things in more detail including breakdowns and stuff. the comment on the music is obviously your personal taste rather then a bad choice on my part. i thought polycount was for professional crit rather then dragging people down. at some point you must of been in a position where your trying to first enter into the games industry?
HAHA! okay. I'll bare that in mind.
blunt. but thanks. i'll search for a more fitting track. any advice on what kind of style would fit better?
Nice, bland. Inoffensive. Bland If you put rock music on then sod's law says that you draw the recruiter who likes hip hop or vice-versa.
I personally don't bother with music. If the recruiter is listening to music on his pc anyway then having another track coming on is just going to irritate and you can never account for taste. FWIW I quite liked the music on your showreel, but my musical taste is a bit esoteric.
What people want to see in hard surface reel and environment reel is quite different. I think you first need to really choose what you want in your reel. For a hard surface modeler, we want to see variety of shapes. From complex to simple, and from round to sharps. I even think showing your model with no color texture is even better if you're going for a modeling position. As long as you have your normal map in it, or simply just render your zbrush/mudbox sculpt.
For environment reel, you will need to show how to put things together and light them beautifully.
So I guess that's my first advice - choose what you want to show in your reel and really make it shine. Right now it's neither hard surface nor environment.
Look who's talking, your portfolio website doesn't even work!
(Started enjoying Stockholm yet Rick? Summer is coming, should make it better
Great work man!