[Portfolio] - Chris de Joya, Concept Artist

Snowfly · Aug 2008

I'd like some feedback on the design. Did a minimal bit of HTML wrangling, though there isn't much to crit I guess since it's hosted on wordpress and the template don't leave a lot of wiggle room.

The thumbnails aren't linked yet, but they'll probably just be links to full size jpgs. Oh, and I'll be phasing out my old art soon, since it hasn't gotten me the jobs I want yet...Maybe I should move out to California? XD

Anyway, crit away. Thanks guys!

http://chrisdejoya.wordpress.com/

Kovac · Aug 2008

Looks great Snowfly... nice and to the point and very clean. The only issue I noticed was the 3D section has a strange offset that shifts all the frames when clicked (the Resume and 2D sections retain the same positioning). Also, will you be linking the title button to anything other than the 2d section?

Firefox 3.0
1280x1024

Edit:
Also, to keep it to just the small handful of colors you have, perhaps the framing on the images could be more like the orange header text of 'Summary', etc in your resume page instead of the golden color it currently has.

edwardE · Aug 2008

You've got some really awesome work up there; can't wait to see it working with the full images. I like how minimalistic it is; I'd say it's very effective for its purpose.

The_Kozmonaut · Aug 2008

I think the site is great. I was just mad I couldnt click on the thumbs to view the full image because they all look so good. Obliviously you are planning on doing that already so no crits here.

bluekangaroo · Aug 2008

I would say its always good practice to provide your resume in both PDF and word format

PeterK · Aug 2008

Always been an admirer of Chris's work. Get some badboy!

killingpeople · Aug 2008

I'd hire you.

Spark · Aug 2008

Great stuff for sure, and the layout is nice and clean ( you can do my site anyday of the week man:) ) Only crit is that I want to see more of your work, so just get busy:P

Spark

flaagan · Aug 2008

I wouldn't complain at all if you moved out here. Awesome art and a nice site layout.

Sa74n · Aug 2008

i've got the same bug as kovac has. other than that it's a pretty solid presentation

the thumbs look awesome! can't wait to see the full images.

the 3d stuff looks a bit weak compared to your 2d work though.

Ruz · Aug 2008

looks cool. how do you do custom pages like that in wordpress?

Rick Stirling · Aug 2008

Kovac/Sa74n - that bug is the scroll bar. If there was more content on the 3D page then it would have a scroll bar too.

You can fix that in CSS to overflow the scroll bar though.

Lovely work!

Mark Dygert · Aug 2008

Awesome stuff as usual! Nice job manipulating a wordpress bog into a stylish and functional portfolio

I was totally bummed out that the links are not in yet =/

It would be great to keep your older works up, in an archive maybe?

monkeyboy_garth · Aug 2008

What a tease! Looks great - I haven't seen a lot of these images - can't wait to see them in full. I know you're limited with the wordpress stuff, but less scrolling would be nice - Is this possible??

Lord McMutton · Aug 2008

Looks good. But with Opera, your concepts go across instead of down, which causes some problems:

conte · Aug 2008

great concepts!

frostymoose · Aug 2008

Yeah - doesn't work with Opera =(

Slingshot · Aug 2008

Stop thwarting us with those eye candy thumb nails an make their links work pronto!

Snowfly · Aug 2008

W00t! Sorry, no full images yet.

Could you guys on Opera check the layout again? I added line breaks every third image, it should wrap properly now. I was counting on the folks at Wordpress to at least check that their templates are cross browser friendly.

And yeah the concept art page is a bit long. I suppose the thumbs could be smaller. Thanks for spotting the off-orange border color, it is a bit painful on the eyes.

Ruz: You just need to click on "Write a New Page" instead of "Write a New Post"

-update- Trying out smaller thumbnails to shorten the page. I miss the presence of the larger thumbnails though. What do you think?

Ruz · Aug 2008

cheers Snowfly:)

LoTekK · Aug 2008

Woot, it lays out fine in opera now. Good seeing you last night, man. Gotta go get some more beers soon.

Snowfly · Aug 2008

Update!
-Divided art into Illustration and Concept Art sections. Gotta trim down the concept art section...
-Shrunk the thumbnails to 90x250 from 150x420 (!!)
-Linked to my LinkedIn page

I kind of miss the large thumbnails though. What do you guys think?
http://chrisdejoya.wordpress.com/concept-art/

Teck- See you soon mate!

kary · Aug 2008

I liked the large thumbs, but you've got so much quality content that it's a long scroll if you go with them. The quality looks pretty even (evenly good mind), so a lot of folks will likely 'next button' their way through everything -- so having large thumbs won't be as important.

Looks great, can't wait for the thumbnails to lead somewhere

Snowfly · Aug 2008

Either that, or I need to seriously start killing my babies. There's something charming about a portfolio with only a handful of top quality pieces in it, but I don't know if my work qualifies as top quality...

Also, I dumped all the thumbs back into one page. The line between finished art and the concept art I left in is a bit fuzzy so I won't bother distinguishing between em.

penrod · Aug 2008

I dunno...i'm really diggin the large thumbs. Like people have been saying...it's a nice teaser. They just make me want to click them all, so i can see all the other coolness going on in there. great work man!

LoTekK · Aug 2008

I liked the large thumbs, but this size works too. I think, though, that you could play with a wider content area, especially with the thumbnails being so tall. On a 1650-wide display, the thumbs area takes up less than a third of the screen, and I have to scroll quite a fair bit to see everything. Maybe make it wider, or have it stretch to the window width (with padding)?

Wells · Aug 2008

Looks nice! get those thumbnails hooked up - I want to look at ART.

Would you seriously consider coming to the states to work?

Sage · Aug 2008

Great work man.

[Portfolio] - Chris de Joya, Concept Artist

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