What not to put in my portfolio?

Discussion in 'I wanna be a Game Artist!' started by milkcarton, Aug 20, 2003.

  1. BrandomJR

    BrandomJR Lurker Not From Round Here

  2. LadyHydralisk

    LadyHydralisk Lurker Not From Round Here

    Seth, you give some really good pointers. On Conceptart.org (The outsourcing company Massive Black's website) they have a folder in the forum for critiquing portfolios. Would it be possible to do something like that here for students?

    My portfolio is lacking any 3D art. I think it's really important to have both excellent traditional art skills along with the ability to translate it into 3D. Is that true for the most part, or do companies really shy away from people who have broad knowledge rather than focused knowledge? (Even if it is all good work)
     
  3. Sheajar

    Sheajar Lurker Not From Round Here

    yes, i think so... :)
     
  4. bugger all

    bugger all Gamer One Of Us

    Count me in as a supporter for this idea. Public section of TCE is fairly small, but it can be quite important for those loonies who want to get into the industry. I'm guessing it all boils down to diskspace and bandwidth .. Admins, 'ello? Any chance for this, or is this idea covered better in IGDA and CGTalk et al? CGTalk has a lot of userbase to gather commentary from, but most of them are those "woo woo! looks gr8!" -thumbuppers who have no insight on the gamedev requirements and whatever. At least here you would get straight and painful critique from the people in the know without all that extra cheese. Haven't hung around IGDA forums enough to know their take on this.
     
  5. SethSpaulding

    SethSpaulding Lurker One Of Us

    I'd be happy take some time each week to look at portfolios. I can't promise perfect attendance, but my bet is that there are a lot of other industry QADs on CE.
     
  6. bugger all

    bugger all Gamer One Of Us

    As well. I'd be happy going over stuff and hopefully helping a bit.
     
  7. Photon

    Photon Not Even Wensleydale Staff Member Administrator

    You may be pleased to know this is on the list for looking at once I have some more of the new site in place. For now, feel free to make posts in here, however as you say, its going to be (potentially) difficult hosting wise... does the whole thing have to be hosted?
     
  8. LadyHydralisk

    LadyHydralisk Lurker Not From Round Here

    Nice, you redid the site. I tried to post here a couple weeks ago but the site was down.

    Anyways after I posted this a game company employee came over to Conceptart.org and posted a flurry of really informative posts. SO everybody is loving that over there. Meanwhile I'm training myself, seeing as how I found out the school I enrolled in is a diploma mill. I enrolled to learn 3D modelling and I found out the 3D modelling teacher's portfolio was scary. It's not much better elsewhere. All of my choices around here are bogus, too. They're accredited and more well regarded than the school I was in, but they teach little. I hear from my brother who is interested in programming for games that it's the same with learning code. All of the really good programmers can't get everything they need from many institutions of learning, like other professions can. Colleges are low-tech. :neutral:

    Ugh, what a headache. I'm learning so much more from the internet now.

    So, too bad, so sad I'm not in South Cali where all of the good schools are but what the hell, I know I can learn this stuff through self study on indie projects.

    Anyways you're all talking about hosting portfolios but I host all of my own stuff, I was just thinking of remote-linking , you know, in a thread. I just didn't want to throw something like that on everyone without asking. There's lots of free hosting around for those without their own hosting. Anyways thanks for replying I got all distracted and stuff. \\:D/
     
  9. bugger all

    bugger all Gamer One Of Us

    I believe the issue was indeed the thread stuff - should the images posted here be hosted on TCE as attachments or loaded from elsewhere.

    Photon, any news on the matter? :)
     
  10. sponge

    sponge jaded old cunt One Of Us

    I say 'no' to 2 legged walker robots and 'no' to anybody who puts black and yellow danger stripes on anything, ever. But, that's just me.
     
  11. Snipehunter

    Snipehunter Anarchist... apparently One Of Us

    Even caution tape? :cool:
     
  12. sponge

    sponge jaded old cunt One Of Us

    Especially caution tape.
     
  13. Jabberwocky

    Jabberwocky Bouncy One Of Us

    Why not just have a separate private section that's open to students who register? I'm sure there's plenty of people around here who'd enjoy posting among students, sharing their experience and more importantly, giving them a taste of the personalities in the industry ;) Just like we opened up the jobs section to recruiters.

    I wouldn't worry about hosting any portfolios or other stuff - that's not what TCE is good at. There's thousands of file/image/video hosting sites out there for that. The rest can be made up by personal webpages. I know you guys are usually swamped by registration requests, it would probably help with a few more volunteers on board dedicated to overseeing student applications.

    Put the word out (gamedev.net, etc - I'm sure superpig would be interested in helping :p ), invite them all! Could be a blast :)
     
  14. bugger all

    bugger all Gamer One Of Us

    What he said!
     
  15. RustyKnight

    RustyKnight Lurker One Of Us

    OUTSTANDING!

    This has been one of the most informative discussions on folios that I've read or seen!

    Thank you all! :D
     
  16. Bobz

    Bobz Peter Molyneux One Of Us

    Aye, the old adage of those who can, do, and those you can't teach, which is often unfair, does seem to be the case here in a lot of places, not all obviously though...but then again, it's a steady pay cheque, so can't blame anyone for it either.

    As for hosting, check out coroflot and core77...okay more towards industrial and product design, but nice port folio hosting, and also a nice idea on how to lay things out etc so it still holds, and ID was my background.

    http://www.core77.com/

    http://www.coroflot.com/
     
  17. kungpaomeatloaf

    kungpaomeatloaf Lurker Not From Round Here

    This is a late reply to this thread, but the one thing to keep in mind is those of us in the industry have limited time to look at anything.

    Always put your best stuff, and ONLY your best stuff. I usually allocate about a minute per resume and reel. If nothing jumps out then I move to the next one.
     
  18. Eric Chadwick

    Eric Chadwick One Of Them One Of Us

  19. feel_the _chaos

    feel_the _chaos Lurker Not From Round Here

    my portfolio

    Hi everyone,

    I know this is quite an old subject but I was wondering if most of you or all of you can turn your attention to my portfolio.
    I have just graduated university doing a game design course and looking for a job in 3D art, I have applied for a few jobs but I haven’t had much success.
    So I’m hoping you all can give me feedback and criticism good or bad on my portfolio.

    My link is: http://andreperkins.bravehost.com

    Thank you all
     
  20. parm

    parm Just barely adequate One Of Us

    I'd suggest not having it as one monolithic .swf that takes several minutes to load even over a moderately fast connection, especially when there's nothing in there that you couldn't do with a normal webpage.