Everyone else's advice seems solid, the one piece I can give you is make sure your stuff is fully textured and finished when put in a portfolio. High-poly models without textures on any of them on a portfolio gives off a feeling of a lack of understanding of a certain aspect like texturing or the ability to finish a…
thanks for all the encouraging remarks, and definitely for all the advice given. I've taken everything on board and made an update: Some things are a little off and embarassing (theres always something to be done differently :/ ) but I'm happy with the end result on all things so... @Autocon: Thanks again, I've now got all…
My temp materials hardly ever spill over 24 slots. Personally I don't reserve slots for applied materials. That cuts down on quite a bit of the clutter. I also use the get material menu system to browse libraries and the scene materials. I also use the material browser (not the same as the material editor) to jump around…