[Portfolio] Josh Rife - Environments and Props
Hi everyone,
This is my first post up at polycount. Very quickly, I'm a 3rd year student working on my undergrad in Games and Environment art. I put together this website over the holidays to show some of what I've been working on.
www.joshrife3d.com
You'll notice that this stuff is diffuse/vert lighting only.
Any crits would be much appreciated! Thank you!
- Amad
This is my first post up at polycount. Very quickly, I'm a 3rd year student working on my undergrad in Games and Environment art. I put together this website over the holidays to show some of what I've been working on.
www.joshrife3d.com
You'll notice that this stuff is diffuse/vert lighting only.
Any crits would be much appreciated! Thank you!
- Amad
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I love the little carmine piece. Carmine FTW!!!
minor crits - you go to town making it more atmospheric and realistic by emphasizing the statue/fountain piece by doing a little more splashes further down the steps and floor - darken the rest p and make that roof hole the primary light source, cause at the moment you've got torches, floor lights and a roof strip - meh just my two cents..
oh and a webpage nitpick - everything doesn't center in the page - it hangs left, youve got some frames and table stuff going - wynot put it all-in a container div which hangs in the centre?
i would center it
change the order things are in, and maybe give it there own pages.
maybe change the mouse overs
for your own banner, i would play with the text more, everything is just lined up underneath eachother wich looks kinda simple.
grey text on a dark grey background is not working very well
get the gears logo out of the screenshot
give your models more credit by better presentation renders. it are mostly cutouts with no detail, or alot is stuffed into one picture. take a look at how other people do those things.
the chickn cannon is cool, only busy screenshots with the info somewhere hidden inbetween.
maybe give the img's borders with room for info, or a bar underneath em.
hars crits for good resolds
good luck!
www.JoshRife3D.com
- Amad
Also (and this might be nit pick, but it bugs me to no end), when you size your images, keep the width the same on all of them. This aviods me from moving my mouse left, then right, then left, then further left and so forth. Keeping the width the same, I dont have to keep moving my mouse and I can scrub through them with ease.
i think your chinatown slum is your best piece. still, the upstairs i felt could use some polishing and additional detailing.
overall, looking at your work here, i think you've shown good competencies in texturing and modeling, with a more involved interest in texturing, uncertain of your full technical understandings of the processes, but you share some nice texture flats and nothing too terrible in your wire shots. regarding, specifically,the decoy gun, the polycounts seem a little heavy for the end result, meaning, the texture resolution and treatments do not warrant the amount of polys used. but again, it's just a portfolio peice, there are no real specs, so i always consider portfolio pieces that are made just for show on loose ground in terms of how many polys should be used.
the work you have definitely matches what you're selling yourself as, which is an environment/texture artist, that's a good thing for a portfolio and also, i feel it's good to have a known focus so you have control over what direction you'll be growing in.
your texture work tends to looks the same, it's very desaturated, you don't seem very brave with your color, and yeah, i do kinda see that as a bad thing
so i mention those few things with the intention that you'd challenge yourself to grow in that direction and wouldn't take it as "my work sucks" because it doesn't, it's good, i just wanted to highlight some areas i thought you may want to work on.
KILLINGPEOPLE: I see what you mean about lighting. A lot of the lighting end of things has been self-taught. As these are all viewport shots, would you have any suggestions for what to focus on specifically? As a rule, I try to use warm key lights and cool fill lights, but maybe that's too uniform and boring?
In school, we're taught that showcasing work in viewport is most desirable, but I notice that a LOT of the great enviro-art out there is rendered in some form, or at least brought into an engine. As someone well versed in the field, do you think I would be better served by bringing my stuff into engine or rendering it?
Thanks for the crits guys, I'll get on this stuff.