12k per seat?? Can I ask where you got that information, because I'm looking at the licenses right now and I can see a perpetual Houdini license for commerical use is 2k, whereas Maya is 1.8k for a year's subscription... And what of Houdini Engine for Maya/Unreal and Unity, GoZ Bridge?
It may help to pretend you're an art lead viewing your portfolio. From this perspective, you can ask yourself, "What could this person contribute to the project my team and I are working on, how does this person's work compare to the rest of the applicants, and is it cost effective / within our budget to hire this person?"…
Left side is starting to look awesome, right side needs some holes filled in (top right corner) and something to fill in the bottom right for composition (probably just more large rock shapes).
I would say get the face right before anything. Right now, the face update looks a lot better, you are definatly on the right track, I'm looking forward to how this turns out!
Is it possible to move the icons to the right side under the buttons rather than over them? Right now they appear right above the posters signature which seems like an odd place to put them.