Portfolio Research

These posts will focus on online portfolios which have caught my eye for either bad or good reasons, I will compare them and note the pros and cons of each and how they can help my own development when producing my own online portfolio and show reels. The portfolios I will be targeting will be solely Environment Artists, as this will relent more to me, I will not be subjective towards the actual 3D work only the design and presentation of the portfolios and show reels if reverent.

http://www.michaeldunnam.com/index.html




















Michael Dunnam environment artists, I really like the home page it stands out and really pushes his work in the viewers face but in an elegant way, Its not cluttered and its very clean and professional and it seems he know hows to highlight his best work.

As looking further in-depth into his portfolio I found that some of his assets allow the viewer to highlight over the asset and it changes the asset to untextured which looks very nice but I feel that he should of added wire frame overlay so then that gives us the visual feedback of how he constructed this asset. Also it seems that only a select few images are enabled to have a size increase when clicked, I feel that having a more detailed render should include a higher resolution and size image, which is not offered below only the full size asset image is enabled to do so.

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http://timspanjer.com/index.html

Fig.1 Homepage

Tim Spanjer is also a 3D environment, as with the previous portfolio this one is very straight to the point,clean and precise, As he has added renders of the wire frame as said previously this allows us as the viewers to understand how they developed their assets.

The below image is the project section on this portfolio, I really like this layout But I feel this layout works better if it was the set homepage and these links then bring you to the individual assets images, aside from the overall presentation of each piece of work is perfect in my opinion each image shows of the assets I feel the lighting and the viewing angle really work on here.

Fig.2 Projects section

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This image shows of the asset In very great detail, I like how he has also shown of each texture map used this allows us to understand how they are gaining the effects on this model.

Neither of these offered a Show reel, I feel this would really push their work especially their full environment work and allow the viewer to get a real feel and atmosphere in their developed environment.










Bibliography

Tim Spanjer, Environment Artist - http://timspanjer.com/index.html

Michael Dunnam, Environment Artist - http://www.michaeldunnam.com/index.html