With a 2k budget you're probably better off going with Ivy Bridge (intel). The CPU is going to be the most important component so get the best you can. 16gb ram is plenty, 64 is just ridiculous unless you specifically know you're going to need that much. I will rarely max out my 8gb. with modo, xnormal, marmoset, photoshop…
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's excessive either way. If you're rendering stuff a render farm + 4790k is more efficient because that way you can work and render at the same time. You can get a really nice renderfarm put together with the amount of money you'll save on not getting an absolutely absurd sound card, CPU and…
My gut instinct is that now your portfolio is kind of a clusterfuck (pardon the french). Rather than showing that you can do what's needed of you, by adding random stuff when you get someone interested in it, it looks like you can't make up your mind and we don't know what to expect from you. Whether or not it's actually…
You have way to many UV islands. Merge parts in the LP everywhere you can, leave parts separate that need to be animated or removed. When you merge your LP together you are: 1. Making it a pleasure to texture 2. Optimizing UV space & better texture density 3. Less seams Check out my first HP to LP work I did several months…