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polycounter lvl 10
Hey you guys,
Currently I am a student who is on his last year before gruaduation. Thats why I like to make my portfolio look at his best to make the best chance on landing a nice job. I was wondering what you guys think of it right now. Is there anything you like or dislike? Should I add or remove parts of it?
As a side note I like to mention that the visual style has a reason. I seen alot of 3D portfolios out there and they all are modern and gray. I thought to make it brown old fasion looking to stand out of the rest. Is gray the way to go or is this a good stratagy? Let me know what your guys think.
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Currently I am a student who is on his last year before gruaduation. Thats why I like to make my portfolio look at his best to make the best chance on landing a nice job. I was wondering what you guys think of it right now. Is there anything you like or dislike? Should I add or remove parts of it?
As a side note I like to mention that the visual style has a reason. I seen alot of 3D portfolios out there and they all are modern and gray. I thought to make it brown old fasion looking to stand out of the rest. Is gray the way to go or is this a good stratagy? Let me know what your guys think.
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The organization of the portfolio is confusing; I really don't know why things are broken into the groups you have.
Gray has generally been chosen because it's a neutral color; it's really hard to find a more specific color that works with everything. That said, a pale brown isn't a bad choice, but I would probably tone down the cardboard texture; it's especially noticeable in the Unreal Ballroom link.
Several sections have a grid of images with empty spaces. It might be better to place the images without the blanks, either changing the placing & spacing or just leaving removing the texture & borders from the empties. I'd also remove the multiple thumbnails linking to the same page; fewer, larger thumbnails (or banners) will probably serve you better.
The mouse is an appealing character, but there's only a single image for it.
The VFX section really should link to a proper project page, rather than just a larger version of each image. Consider adding a brief description of what you did and why.
Shadows are not black and highlights not white. Just go with a flat color to be consistent with the rest of your page anyways.
And your diegetic paper design is not consistent. At some places you have a paper border, at some its sharp cut flat design style, and at some you add round corners ?
The logo is nice at the first glance aswell. But if I take a closer look, there are some issues. 100% saturated red is too much, tone just a little bit down, it conflicts a bit, creative design is roughly 33% too small, the armaments could be a little bit bigger aswell for my taste, and you use 2 different nearlythesame colors for the creatived. text and the armaments.then it will come out really nice, the colors and the font is giving a really nice mood, like that.
The font on your headliner is a sans serif, why ?
3 Fonts max unless youre pro at type (font families don't count!)
At the second glance your helmet also reveals texturing problems, there is no good edge wear, at some places its just bare lines like you used a shader for it or bad DDO settings, and theres nearly no game industry standard wear to find. The render is nice and flashy, but if you look beyond that there are issues, also the background is not helping. Same rule as for layer styles, grey nearly never conveys something else than "fake computer environment" and thats not what you want
you seem like you know the matter, get 1-2 really good assets with top presentation out, clean up your page a bit, search the best and ditch the rest, and youre set to go ; ) Also make sure the viewer knows what you want to do later, put a clear focus, but show what youre capable off all in all.
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I think it's good to go with a portfolio lay out that looks different to the norm. And it can sometimes show of your creativity as well.
Only thing is you've probably misspelled internship (inturnship)
EDIT: I had a look again at your church, don't render stuff on a black background man, it just looks bad. Make a little diorama for it or frame it in a way that makes it look complete, or at the least just make it a grey background with a vignette on it. It's a good church, I just hate the black background haha.
The auto play slideshow is removed
Corrected "internship"
removed the last portfolio piece with a project from my internship
Added information on some of the projects
The church is still a work in progress so I will add more imaged later and render it on a other background.
I dont think i will change the text to white. Yes it's better to read in white but it doesn't match with the rest of the website. So I will keep it brown.
I'm not sure about the frontpage do. I really like the front page but I guess it's better to make the gallery my front page. The only problem is that I will have a pointless button called home. Because my gallery will be my homepage.