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[Portfolio] - Doug Kavanagh | Environment Artist

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Hey everyone! After finishing up my last project I finally got around to redesigning my site and wanted to share it with everyone. Hopefully it's more streamlined and easier to navigate than my last design :)

I'm also looking for work, so if someone has an environment opening(paid work only and preferably full-time), I'd like to hear from you!

kavanagh_doug@yahoo.com
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  • Daven
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    Daven greentooth
    Wow man, looking awesome. Quick note, the link to your 2D section seems broken.

    EDIT: nevermind, didn't see the "coming soon". Fantastic work :)
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  • Sayanora
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    *bump*

    @ suburbbum

    No problem, it should be up pretty soon! Btw, thanks for the kind words :)
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  • Sean VanGorder
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    Sick work Saya.

    I would personally have the bio and contact as another page that you can access via the nav bar. Would give you more room for the images, and allow them to be centered.
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  • Sayanora
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    Sean, great feedback man! I took your advice and moved the sidebar elements up top, freeing up a lot of space for my images. I've also removed my bio for now since it was getting a bit crowded up top, but might add it back later.

    site_preview.jpg
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  • Nina I.
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    Admirable stuff! Forgotten Keep is definitely my personal favourite, and I was happy to see you show us an image featuring texture maps on their own. Those always interest me. Wonderful painterly style that balances excellently between polished and 'rough'. I like the boldness of your brush strokes. :):thumbup:
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  • Thegodzero
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    Really great work, i like the layout, i think i might steal that layout at some point.
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  • Ack Master
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    Ack Master
    your portfolio is like sex.. awesome looking and i wish i could be doing it .... but i dream... dreeeeaaammm......

    now that i said that, you dont have any props?
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  • jsargent
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    wow, I love it!! That forgotten keep scene is fantastic and your textures across all projects are beautiful! Nice one!
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  • Blaisoid
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    you might want to change the abbadon font, it's really overused and quite recognizable.

    That template looks really good, is this kind of result easy to achieve or did you have to tweak it a lot?
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  • JR
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    What a great portfolio! Your works are really excellent, man. I like the simplicity and clarity of navigation and layout too. Very professional. Good job! :)
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  • cmtanko
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    ohh awesome works... the stylized environment looks simple awesome..
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  • Sayanora
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    Sayanora polycounter lvl 11
    Hey everyone! Thank you for the positive feedback, it's very encouraging


    Nina I. Thank you! I love seeing fellow artists texture flats too, so I'm more than happy to share my own :)

    Thegodzero Thanks man! You can steal my layout any day :D! Seriously, I'm gonna share my blogger setup for it below. It's nothing special, but if someone can learn something from it, awesome!

    Ack Master Haha, thank you, I think :P Yeah, I've got all kinds of props, populating my environments :D I guess I forgot to post the benches, torches, candles, etc didn't I?

    jsargent Thanks!

    Blaisoid Thank you and good point about that font..I just really wanted something similar to Blizz's D3 font and it was the closest thing I could find on such short notice. About my template and to make tgz's layout thievery easier, I've outlined what I did below :)

    First off, it's based on the Awesome Inc. template that everyone knows. So it's not even mine to begin with :O All I did was change the layout to the basic, full body layout with no sidebars. (courtesy of Sean's suggestion) Next up, I opted out of using sequential blogger posts to share my work, instead I used multiple Pages to house my separate projects. Next I made some project banners to link my visitors to their respective projects. After I was happy with the layout, it was just a bit of tinkering with nailing down a color scheme I could live with.

    Here's a few pics to help explain

    Blogger_Layout_A.jpg

    If you want your tabs up top, just change Show pages as to 'Top tabs'

    Blogger_Layout_B.jpg

    jramauri Thanks! Check out my totally awesome tutorial above to uncover the secrets of my folio's layout :P

    cmtanko Thanks!
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