Please critique me on my portfolio - thank you

[savyas]

@antidesign

The problem of how much to put in which portfolio is a difficult one that I’m struggling with myself.

I think you can make two different portfolios quite quickly by using what you have. Using one page per project take the small projects and add maybe a bit more information and a couple more images from the project, product in use etc… and creating a similar page to give a snapshot of each of the bigger projects. 10-15 pages in total.

Then you can make another with all the pages from the larger two projects and chose one or two other projects and go into a bit more detail. You can then offer them both to download depending on the person’s interest level.

I’m sure it’s very difficult to mimic the bow wake of a boat in photoshop (or v-ray for that matter) so don’t try. If you can find a picture of a boat, eliminate most of the boat and then put yours on top. It’s very important to choose the right image when you do a photo montage. take a ruler to the boat render and place it across two points which are supposed to be horizontal on the boat, draw a line and then do the same with another two points. You’ll find that the vanishing point is way above the horizon line of the background picture.

Good luck I look forward to seeing the update

I really liked the work by the way but it’s formatting I’m talking about
Cheers

Dave

Antidesign;

Once again the feedback was so extensive and awesome, thanks a lot man, you are so very right about information display still struggling to do that, but now i have an idea and working towards it, will post a new one ASAP.

Thanks

VT

[savyas]

@sketchforever

@savyas
as said before some awesome work interspersed with some regular stuff…
love the pen rendering on the first page
on the industrial design page the images of the ‘vacuum cleaner’ and the ‘wave alert’ jump out ( due to the stark black background) and demand attention but they are not your best projects and are a let down compared to the grand toura and the pen…
you could try putting a close up and or a interesting background and composition for those two
overall quite extensive

Sketchforever;

I know what you mean by the vacuum and wave alert, they were merely sketch projects which i took time to 3D model for my modeling class , i guess i should keep it to that. Also do you feel the portfolio is a little too extensive with 38 pages, coz i have seen portfolio which are 88 pages…hahaha…as antidesign mentioned maybe its wise to have a smaller portfolio as well…what do you think.??

Thank you for your time and your effort in looking at my work.

Cheers

[georgeous]

@savyas

do you feel the portfolio is a little too extensive with 38 pages, coz i have seen portfolio which are 88 pages…

I think you don’t truly understand the point of your website and the downloadable portfolio.

Let me break it down for you - You want to go to the movies some night, and you’re going to spend 1 or 2 hours there - a movie trailer is designed to give you 2 minutes of action to seduce you into wanting to see that movie. The same goes for reading the back cover of a novel in a bookshop - you read the back, get the gist, and if it entices you, buy it.

That is what you need to do for both your website and the downloadable portfolio - to seduce potential employers to the extent where they want to see more, and that’s when the interview invite comes and they get to see (and most importantly you get to present) the whole portfolio and process. And the way you do that is with visuals - presenting beautiful sketches, nice renderings in a way that people can look at them and understand them in 2/3 seconds - it’s all about visual seduction at the early stage.

[savyas]

@georgeous

@savyas

do you feel the portfolio is a little too extensive with 38 pages, coz i have seen portfolio which are 88 pages…

I think you don’t truly understand the point of your website and the downloadable portfolio.

Let me break it down for you - You want to go to the movies some night, and you’re going to spend 1 or 2 hours there - a movie trailer is designed to give you 2 minutes of action to seduce you into wanting to see that movie. The same goes for reading the back cover of a novel in a bookshop - you read the back, get the gist, and if it entices you, buy it.

That is what you need to do for both your website and the downloadable portfolio - to seduce potential employers to the extent where they want to see more, and that’s when the interview invite comes and they get to see (and most importantly you get to present) the whole portfolio and process. And the way you do that is with visuals - presenting beautiful sketches, nice renderings in a way that people can look at them and understand them in 2/3 seconds - it’s all about visual seduction at the early stage.

@georgeous;

I am truely grateful for your help in this matter dude, the trailer explanation makes perfect sense, so does any other commercial/ad film, the reason i was confused was the distinction in use between a teaser portfolio and a full fledged one, i understand now that if u have everything in the beginning and the client or the interviewer would wanna see more, i would have nothing else to put on the table. The work is goin on man, would break it down and post up very soon…thanks once again.

cheers

[georgeous]

@savyas

I am truely grateful for your help in this matter dude, the trailer explanation makes perfect sense

It’s ok man. You just need to remember you need to seduce this with awesome visuals so they know you have the skills (sketching, modelling, 3d whatever) so they think - ‘Ok, he’s got skills, but does he have the process’ - and thats when they get curious and invite you in.

Looking forward to seeing you reformed teaser etc.