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I finally finished building this thing after forgetting how to work in dreamweaver entirely. Here's my basic porfolio which I'll be tweaking and updating throughout the year!
By the way... godaddy.com is an awesome company for hosting so far. Customer service and response times are top notch... and it's cheap :D
www.joshrife3D.com
SpiralFace
01-26-2009, 11:48 PM
Its minimalistic for right now, but gets the job done.
The "Anti Chicken Cannon" prop is very nice, although your temple piece is kind of flat. Be sure to add scuff and weathering marks on areas that would get a lot of wear and tear to better integrate the different elements into one cohesive piece. And if you have time to "Dress the set" with props, I think it will do you well, as its looking a bit bare at the moment.
Definatly a good starting point.
The only thing I can say about the navigation is that I personally HATE images that I have to roll over a button and KEEP my mouse there to veiw another image. As when that image is large like your "Beauty render" images, by the time I mouse over the thumbnail, I can't even go to the scroll up window to veiw the whole image without it changing back to the default image.
hadidjah
02-06-2009, 09:16 PM
I have to agree that roll-overs are pretty annoying, but I really like the clean, simple layout you have so far. I would almost say keep this simplicity with just a few of your strongest pieces on the front page and then a link to view more work to keep the front page from getting cluttered. The whole point of a portfolio website is to show off what you've made. Right now there's absolutely nothing else to focus on, and you make it look good.
Also, I really like your temple, very cool, dramatic concept.
That came from the "mapping for games" class, also taught at Ai. Take it next term, youll dig.
Great comments, thanks guys. After having this thing active and critiqued both here and on polycount, I'm hearing the same qualms over and over. Mostly people are not crazy about the rollover. Quite frankly, I completely agree. Ironically that's what took me the longest to figure out.
After this semester, I'm going to go through and revamp, either doing the big images in lightboxing or slideshow setups.
SpiralFace
02-09-2009, 11:19 AM
I completely agree. Ironically that's what took me the longest to figure out.
Once again proving that the KISS mantra of design works.