Pope Adam - Portfolio Site
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Hey dudes
I started working on my official site today. Having some weird issues with the coloring when you bring up the renders. Some of them turn like, super saturated and stuff... still gotta figure that out.
anyway, let me know what you think. Trying to keep it simple.
http://www.adamw3d.com
Thanks!
I started working on my official site today. Having some weird issues with the coloring when you bring up the renders. Some of them turn like, super saturated and stuff... still gotta figure that out.
anyway, let me know what you think. Trying to keep it simple.
http://www.adamw3d.com
Thanks!
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seemed a little slow to load at times for me anyway
jk i'll change it haha i forgot
i also plan on having some small labels above the projects, and downrezing some of the images.
Loading took awhile for me, and I wasn't a fan of some of the larger images in which I had to scroll for (especially in Lightbox). Would work better if I was on my desktop with better monitor, but I'm guessing not all employers will like the scrolling if they don't have a large monitor.
The blank space with all the white is what's grabbing my attention more than your work right now. Same on the resume page. Either having it centered, more thumbnails/info, or changing color might fix that.
Great stuff man, always love seeing your work on here. Same with the website, just no eye piercing white please!
Just a suggestion: maybe you want to add your vital contact information always present at the banner or somewhere aside from the content. Also I can't select copy paste your phone / email ect. data because its a picture instead of text. This might eventually go wrong at some point if someone copies it over manually to their outlook or whatever contact management system.
All in all the contact page has little content why not merge it with the base GUI and make just 1 page with all the pictures and the contact details/links on it.
I say this also because your 2 buttons on the banner do not really look like buttons so at least I had to guess but I was not sure if it was click able.
The logo you have looks better imo. if you make it smaler like in each picture - its quite big in the header of your page.
Also for the page I would go completely with a white background and not the grey surrounding frame - which looks odd and make your website appear so tiny where as the lightbox content often only fits within 1280*1024 or greater.
http://www.adamw3d.com/images/SaintInlays_Layout.jpg
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One thing about your presentation sheets. I would consider ditching you HP off. Right now they take up a lot of room and its clear there was a HP model made for each prop based on the normals being showed on the LP and Textured version. If you ditch that it will give you a lot more room to really show off your difuse map and from hearing it several times at GDC thats what people like to look at. Textured, LP and Difuse map. Things like spec map and normal map can be smaller because they can see those working on the model.
Did you ever hear anything out of that art test?
- Josh
First I agree, I don't like the white background. Second, I have never been a fan of the long thin close-up thumbnails. To me, you mine as well have a black box, because I have no idea what I will see when I click on a thumbnail like this. Third, Lightbox, flash, whatever; I don't like those funny loading animations. I prefer just a normal page.]
As already stated, the loading times are currently too long. Did you save for "web and devices" in photoshop?
So, I think it might be better to have square thumbnails, that show the viewer an image more zoomed out than you currently have it.
When you said a simply website, I was in the intro here. I was secretly hoping that you just had one page with all your images layed out, but; since you are using thumbnails to organize, I think you should have it so you click on a thumbnail and it shows you a series of images on a New page.
Yeah, as Firebert said; let us know if you hear about the art test.
then again something like the robotic arm is over 6k tris and looking at the wireframe i cant see where.
the other thing I would focus on refining is the lighting setup for your individual props, right now, I think there are too many blown out highlights that make it look a bit noisy/high contrast.
the lighting in the art test turned out really nice because overall its fairly subtle and has some nice color shifts in it, try doing something similar to the props.
site diesign is nice and accessible, renders on white backgrounds might look better against a darker grey to be easier on the eyes, like other dudes have said. overall cool work man, cant wait to see what you come out with next.
cheers.
I like your new logo thang. It took me a second or two to get it but now it makes sense. Cool stuff man.
Load times were great for me. Resume loaded fine and looked good. Best of luck with all of it.
I'll hash out the other issues later in the week
-cheers!
what about the damn test man!?! wtf!?! you can find time to do the test, but you can't update your site OR keep us up to date!?! sheesh!
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