Hey Polycount! My name is Paul Mandegarian. Posted a few times here back in the day but I've been recently working on my portfolio and juggling my renovation job at the same time. I just want to get my name out there and get as many critiques, comments, and suggestion as possible. After lifting one end of a 500 pound…
I like everything on your portfolio, especially the heart model. It may just be me, but I like to write a brief description about my workflow, programs used, etc. You wrote some things on a few of the portfolio pieces, but not all. Again, it's just a personally preference to me.
Did you enable the normal map when you rendered the object for the art test? The high-poly details seem to be missing, even though they are on the texture. In the first Smallville picture, you seem to have some strange stretching on the newspaper's UVs, giving "White" a reversed italic appearance. Also, the font for the…
DWalker - Thanks for the great comments and suggestions! The normals were on for the art test. The thing was due to the poly limit I decided to use one poly across the front panel and unfortunately the normals did not come out the way I wanted. Is was a mix up between distributing the polys between the front panel and the…