Congrats on getting to a level where you can begin to fill out your folio, man! This picture is quite striking in a lot of ways, but I'm personally not too keen on all the high frequency details. I think you could stand to push the background further back, for one, especially if it's snowing. I feel all the detail and…
Hi there - There has been a lot of great advice given already about how to approach things as a whole, so I will try to focus on something very specific. The first piece of your folio is a Demon Centaur. In itself that's a great subject, full of potential. Looking at it, I suppose that you most likely spent quite some time…
Thanks everyone for your feedback. Really appreciate it. @Bishop - The reflection cuts off because of the shadows from the trees - It's a specular reflection right now. I've fixed some of the random grass placement now and will try turning down the spec so it's not so abrupt. @BeatKitano - Bloom :) - I thought I had toned…
Kind of like what was stated before, I think when people think that there is too much detail in games nowadays they forget that the mindset of the the ambitious game artist who is hungry to create hi-res, detailed models and textures is a whole different world than that of a gamer or designer who primarily likes gameplay.…
Technically I guess I am an illegal immigrant by descent...only reason I exist is because a grandfather (who was Scottish) back about 4 generations ago or maybe 5 generations ago got onto a ship in England to visit with a friend before the ship set sail and while on board, the ship had left port so he was kinda stuck. He…
Having previously worked on this mod and with Vred for quite some time I figured I would add my two cents on the matter. Another perspective if you will. First of all nobody ever said work could not be used in your portfolio. This was asked by numerous new members over the months and the answer was always "Sure, yeah go…
Armour looks sick and the bakes came out looking good, i like it... but.. I feel like you've rushed to finish it man, and it's hurt the quality. I'm gonna rip into you here not because i want to be mean but because i feel like this could be a way stronger piece. Firstly, there's no story to that metal at all. There's no…
Given the $800 price tag, the reviews on that laptop aren't horrible. They're more or less what you'd expect of a budget laptop. That said... 1. The PCMark tested battery life is 2hr 16m. That's kinda terrible. In a real world situation, with things like your GPU or HDD sucking up energy, expect it to probably drop down to…
this was posted on Newsarama and most of it seems relevant to us too. ONE STEP: PORTFOLIO HORROR by Jim Zubkavich This bi-weekly column is meant to give advice from me and eventually other people in the industry about how to break in as an artist. This will include tricks for the formal submission routes as well as a bunch…