Portfolio Check Please
polycounter lvl 9
Hello all,
My goal is to be an environment/prop artist for the game industry.
I have Updated my portfolio since I was last here based on multiple suggestions.
I have tried to streamline everything for ease of use and showcasing my work.
Please take a look at my portfolio and tell me if it gets my goals across is not hard to use and properly showcases the work already there.
http://davonaallen.wix.com/davonaallen
My goal is to be an environment/prop artist for the game industry.
I have Updated my portfolio since I was last here based on multiple suggestions.
I have tried to streamline everything for ease of use and showcasing my work.
Please take a look at my portfolio and tell me if it gets my goals across is not hard to use and properly showcases the work already there.
http://davonaallen.wix.com/davonaallen
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The portfolio itself is pretty good. Just needs more stuff.
Also in your antique study you have really hard shadows. I don't use unity but I'd try to soften those up somehow.
Wouldn't the reason that there isn't any ads be because you are paying for web hosting? Unfortunately I don't have an income to pay for web hosting.
Does the drawback you mentioned take away my creative freedom to make a website that is unique to me and not limited like some Carbonmade examples?
My goals are to showcase my work efficiently but to also stand out from the crowd. If that can be done in Wordpress then i will try to make a second site for the sake of usability for the people looking to hire
Here's an example portfolio I noticed relating to 3D art.
If you optimize your Images for Web I've found it loads fast enough, Try to keep Images Under 500kb, if you don't have many on the page maybe push to 800kb, If PNG goes over this save as JPG.
Now for your work, your modeling seems fine and In sure its the same for UV's.
The Problem is the Textures, In the Antique Study while I'm not sure if this is an intended style its just far to clean and basic. Normal Maps seem good but the diffuse and Spec really need work, the scene reminds of amnesia so this would be what type of quality I'd be aiming for
The Seat & Wheelchair are better but (and correct me if Im wrong) they seem to have been done mainly in dDo.
The Thing with dDo is, its not a learning tool, It doesn't teach you to texture. Its meant for speeding up existing workflows.
I recommend staying away from dDo for now and practicing traditionally used texturing practices (ie. Photo sources, different Detail Maps, masking and just general painting in Photoshop) CG Textures is a great place to start.
Wordpress has a ton of themes and most of them offer quite a lot of customisation. And you can always edit the css as well. It's probably easier to get the end result with Wix though.
Its the more expensive option but I had a design in mind for my folio that no other service would match %100
Also with your Antique Room, why is there tiled wallpaper on only one of the walls?
Personally instead of using UDK for your next environment I would go ahead and just use UE4. You can plop down a single payment of $19 and pick up UE4 and then cancel your subscription. You will still be able to use it after your subscription expires. So it's not like you have to stay subscribed and pay $19 every month in order to use it.
The biggest change you'll have to make if you are familiar with UDK is working with PBR materials.
CarlK3D ,I agree with you on the reasons you use wix and I like the advice on making the images for web and png. I have found that png doesn't pixelate nearly as much as jpeg does so I have been trying to use is at much as I can
Secondly, my intention was going in with clean materials and very new room with basically polish antique stuff. Since this was for class and that is how I presented it to my teacher I wont change it just yet. After my class is over I am open to making it darker as I have also seen this more as a scene from the old school resident evil games as I played around with the lighting.
Finaly, as for texturing I don't feel like that image from amnesia is utilizing spec maps very well either. I am now reassured that that is my main problem and I need to correct that ASAP. I have been trying and I will post and image of the textures I have generated for some of my other pieces not on my portfolio.
these are heavily altered from their photo originals utilizing blend modes adjustment layers and layering of filters, colors, other photo sources etc.
and they are tileable textures
these are the unity materials
Is this something I should be showcasing? or is it not good enough?
I know kismet and the bsp brushes how to add models and materials. When I learned how to do that my skills as far as modeling weren't up to par.
I don't feel that I should put any image up that doesn't properly showcase what my intended goals are. I have projects where I have done camera fly through's, made things operate with kismet and have a full bot death match with way points in unity with what I feel was beginner modeling.
My school dropped UDK so most of the time I have been using unity to do school projects that take most of my time up.
I will try to do a UE4 scene next just to prove I can do it. Its the same from ndo and ddo.
My last two projects in my portfolio were made with NDo and DDo so I have it there but I will retry my hand later on when I have made sure my texturing skills are up to par to showcase my ability to utilize ndo and ddos features as a helper rather than a crutch.
I had someone else check as well and I agree with you. It does feel cluttered but I am going to try another route then thumbnails only because I feel that I only know how to link them to another page. Something I don't want to make the employer go through
I want to post this up here for feedback since we were last talking about texturing this is my first texture based on the PBR system and with some clear direction thanks to a mentor of mine.
and here are the maps
Albedo
Roughness
Normal
Is this going in the right direction of good texture work?
I am still trying to wrap my head around PBR so that I can make it my focus when texturing. would anyone have any tutorials or general tips on how to properly train yourself to think when texturing?
I have done research myself but it seems that texturing for PBR is vaguely explained.