You could just have a main portfolio page that has different sections with thumbnails that take you elsewhere or open up an image. No need to overthink it too much. Make your gallery page an actual full-size page that has them laid out in an intuitive manner. Each category would have thumbnails, and each category could…
Hmm. What I would do is have a home page that features your generalist demo reel (embedded in the page, not a popup) and several nice big shiny image that showcase projects in which you did many different aspects of the work. And then, in a navigation bar up top have a bunch of links that take you to separate pages that…