A while ago I posted my illustration folio to get some feedback and direction on how to tailor it towards the games industry.
Finally I think the renovation is nearing completion! I would like to give it a public airing and get feedback on all aspects before I go sending it off to various companies.
All feedback, especially from games industry and recruitement people, would be greatly appreciated.
the pdf is 1.01M (right click and 'save target as' to download rather than view online)
http://home.iprimus.com.au/johnnewall/extras/JohnNewall_samples.PDF
Nice portfolio, the design and layout is great, but the quality of teh images leaves a bit to be desired. Hmmm maybe that reads wrong, your images are great but they're really aliased, and there's jagged white edges around some of them. I think a little more work in the presentation of the images would really help polish this up.
Stu
I absolutely love the design of the portolio. It's simple, uncluttered, and clean. *Great* job on that.
You've covered a variety of areas of concept design, but I think I would have loved to have seen more on character design. I know the Sumea portfolio tips article says not to include TOO much, but I think more than 2 characters is essential. You're quite capable of filling them in with colour as well, so some characters with colour would be ideal.
Probably to slant the portfolio more to game development (and something you'll most likely do as a concept artist) is to mock up front and side profiles of character designs (making sure that their details match up accurately), ready for the modellers..
thanks for the feedback. Regarding the 'jagged white edges' I have assumend that they are the bits around the orc and ogre- problem fixed (but not uploaded yet). The general image quality is a bit of a balancing act. I want to keep the file size about 1 meg, this means all images at 72dpi. Its looks fine at 100% size on screen but gets chunky with any enlargement. At the end of the day the image quality is no better or worse than if I used a website instead of a PDF and I can do print quality pdf if needed for 'in-person' presentation and the layout control is better/more flexable
More colour work- check. if I could finish off that damn character protrait quick activity i could do front and side views of that character and it would make a nice addition too.
Souri, thanks for moving the thread and the comments too :) I did browse the thread about matching front and side pics on character sheets and the associated moddelling issues.
Moved your post to exhibition, hopefully it'll get more reponses here.