Kramo Portfolio Review #1
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I come from a gaming background (BFA, Game Production) and like doing it sometimes BUT... It turns out that my passion is modeling, texturing and lighting/rendering for interior and exterior scenes. I've been at it for a while now and I realize that it's time for me to take another leap in skill level.
Here is my site: http://www.craigmonroe.com/home.html
Also, what do you think will help me get my skills up? I know I need to learn the graphite modeling tools, organic modeling and more about post-production Photoshop work.
Here is my site: http://www.craigmonroe.com/home.html
Also, what do you think will help me get my skills up? I know I need to learn the graphite modeling tools, organic modeling and more about post-production Photoshop work.
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Focus on copying something fairly complex and that will show you where your skills fall. Right now you are well below the mark.
When it comes to the props not being recognized, by gamers at least, I'm not worried. I don't intent that to be arrogant or anything. It's just that I worked with interior designers in the past and they know what they are. When It comes to the general/game stuff I see your point.
Thanks, man.
- Way too small thumbnails overall, I shouldn't have to click a picture to see any detail.
- The game category link image doesn't lead anywhere.
- I can't save your picture or open them in new tabs. Just get rid of lightbox, it's fucking junk.
- Don't show WIP as it'll look like you don't finish stuff.
- You need to improve your texturing a lot as frankly the game textures are currently pretty bad.
- I'd scrap all the pieces in the game section as they are all very basic objects with bad texturing (especially the round gate thingy, it's so low-res that it could fit in Quake 1 or 2).
If you want to work work with environment you don't need much organic work (beyond a few trees/plant) focus more on hard surface stuff instead (like making tile-able floor texture). I'd first learn some proper highpoly modeling (with sculpting), then lowpoly modeling, texturing, lighting. If you don't want to do hand-painted stuff of course, then you'd focus a lot more on the texturing first.
Also you shouldn't need a lot of post-processing either, because your working inside a game engine mostly everything you need should be there. The only thing I'd do in post-pro for an environment would be some color adjustments and brightness/contrast tweaks. If you're making individual props you could also spice up the background a bit (light smoke, glow or whatever), but there should never be something that covers your art.
If you really want to keep all the categories make the image links contain the actual category description, because right now it's hard to tell what you'll get when you click a link. Partly because the pictures are so small and zoomed in and I can't tell from a first glance what they're supposed to be.
If we cannot recognize what you've done we cannot realize how well it is executed which means you might as well leave it out IMO.
I'm still a student and don't work in the game industry (yet) so take what I say as you will.
Ok, so I thought I'd post seeing as I myself, am in a similar boat to you. I studied game design at University finished with a top degree and enjoyed doing game stuff; I still want to work in games however took the first studio job I was offered and at the mo am a 3D artist for a architect/vis company. Its no where near what I want to do but its experience and paying my dues so to speak; and i'm lucky to get paid to learn max whilst I used Maya, and learn a new range of skills surrounded by talented people.
Whilst here, I've worked on several projects that I feel are suitable for my portfoilio; but will be in a seperate section and will be considered more "padding" then anything else as I would like game work to dominate my image and simply use this as "studio time" in that i've worked in a proper pipeline environment...
What I would recommend, is for you to decide what you want to work on; i.e. film, arch or games; because they're similar but far far different. I would also suggest you scrap a huge portion of your portfolio; even though your arch scenes are ok; they're not what i'd call portfolio quality... and disregarding what you say about interior designers and your props... they are extremely basic props/products you've got there; even for interior scenes...
As others have said; work on tilable textures in zbrush, model to a concept using normal maps and textures/unwrapping skills in contrast to relying on fancy renders, materials and lighting.
Just my two cents
- Dave