It's so useful to hear your thoughts on these. I'd love more portfolio reviews! If you could, maybe ask for the source files? If you went into the projects yourself and found the angles you'd like, show us what you'd screenshot, that would be incredibly useful
This video is so good that the first 4 minutes could be a separate inisightful guideline and it would still be great. Thanks for your work and the artists for contribution!
Yes Erin !! an amazing format great tips for everyone and really appreciate your subtle catches that tells us much about the level of attention of any potential future viewer !! huge thanks
Regarding following concepts and adding your own spin on it (mentioned at around 5:00): I've been following Andrew Hodgson for a little while, for those who don't know who he is, he's an industry veteran Hardsurface Modeler. In his portfolio reviews he mentions how it's very important to translate as much of the concept art to the final model as possible. Ultimately it depends on where you want to go with your portfolios, but personal interpretations to the concept are not always appreciated.
It depends very much on the studio and the hiring manager. For me, I want to know that my artists can make decisions as a lot / most concept art doesn't hold to 3D structural requirements. For bigger studios and AAA settings I imagine they're going to just want pens-for-hire more than individual artists so that's likely where Andrew is coming from with his background.
HAHA wow this is exactly what I am doing these few weeks, my school has Career Day coming up where professionals review our portfolios. So we have been making them nice! And then boom, this video drops! Thanks mate!
very cool to get a look through some awesome portfolios with your commentary. very satisfying having some of my thoughts followed up by you saying the same thing lol. that geometry nodes city really did start making me think of cool stuff that could get built.. hopefully they give some more info on how they made the whole city!
This is a highly useful video indeed! I haven't made my first portfolio, but I have a bunch of projects that I would like to showcase in a portfolio, but I have no idea what's the best way to do it. this comes in handy for sure
Thanks for this video, it's good information. I do a variety of different work, and it's very difficult to convey in a portfolio. Your advice on curation is helpful. I once sent a client a list of links to TH-cam videos I made. Of course, they apparently did not watch all of them. They clicked on a 2D animated commercial I made. They then made assumptions just based on that, that I wasn't a good fit for their needs, which were medical illustration animations, which I have done, but they did not look at those, so it's important to curate for specific positions and not include other things, no matter how proud you are of them, no matter how good they are. It doesn't matter how vast and varied your experience is, if the first thing they look at doesn't seem to fit their needs, they will skip over everything else.
Yeah it's just the unfortunate state of the world. Hiring managers at big studios can have 1000+ applicants per role advertised so it's important to give them exactly what they want
There can be artists who use a body of work that is constant that is their portfolio such as Beeple and many Visual Artists, a portfolio for Jobs may be one that is curated for work purposes is not the same as an artistic portfolio of ongoing art projects, these are not the same in reduction, but in general for digital artists looking to work in the space of design, games, film and some other spaces then of course it can be viewed and used in that way, but not for fine arts or other types of visual arts
I suppose I should've qualified this as "portfolios for gainful employment". For those who are more just looking for commissions, social media algorithms favour constant activity over quality of individual pieces. That being said, if you're a fine art student and you need to produce a portfolio for university admission then that's going to need to be a curated portfolio again.
I went to Ringling College of Art and Design for a summer class about portfolio design, and I learned more in this video than from that class. Great work sir!
I’d really like to actually! They’re a nice change of pace to get into and it seems like a lot of people are looking for work right now as well so definitely prime time
It’s just because artstation is garbage for portfolio presentation so doing it in an image is the only way to keep things in line and compelling as you read down the page 🥹 I definitely wouldn’t want to see it on a personal website where you can actually control formatting
I was in formation last year and had an adobe "student" account. I spent one week to present my 3D/Game works on adobe Portfolio. The license expired and I lost my access to my portfolio. Never again I will do a portfolio
@@Erindale Ah yes good platform indeed, I created an account a long time ago, but it is for real artists so I never posted anything, too ashamed of my work compared to what is found on artstation
If you have any projects that you think Ewa would be a good fit for, reach out to her via her links in the description!
Thank you! 😊
Ewa, animating those phone cord strands was too big of a flex. We get it, you follow through on things. GOSH
Hey, double thanks for the review and for the video itself! Whole bunch of things to take into account. Eager to see what's next!
Thanks for being a part of it!
I'm slowly building my own portfolio currently and this is the exact type of information I'm looking for, helps me a lot, thank you!
Great to hear! Good luck!
I was just about to search for a video on exactly this and then this notification popped up! Fantastic!
It's so useful to hear your thoughts on these. I'd love more portfolio reviews! If you could, maybe ask for the source files? If you went into the projects yourself and found the angles you'd like, show us what you'd screenshot, that would be incredibly useful
This video is so good that the first 4 minutes could be a separate inisightful guideline and it would still be great. Thanks for your work and the artists for contribution!
Thanks so much! Glad it’s helpful!
Yes Erin !! an amazing format great tips for everyone and really appreciate your subtle catches that tells us much about the level of attention of any potential future viewer !! huge thanks
Regarding following concepts and adding your own spin on it (mentioned at around 5:00):
I've been following Andrew Hodgson for a little while, for those who don't know who he is, he's an industry veteran Hardsurface Modeler. In his portfolio reviews he mentions how it's very important to translate as much of the concept art to the final model as possible. Ultimately it depends on where you want to go with your portfolios, but personal interpretations to the concept are not always appreciated.
It depends very much on the studio and the hiring manager. For me, I want to know that my artists can make decisions as a lot / most concept art doesn't hold to 3D structural requirements. For bigger studios and AAA settings I imagine they're going to just want pens-for-hire more than individual artists so that's likely where Andrew is coming from with his background.
Fantastic mate! Thanks for the review, the kind words, and the great feedback!
Holy cow the other portfolios are so cool! Great vid!
Thanks so much for sending yours! So inspiring
Awesome advice. Only just setup an Artstation account. This video will help so much. Thank you 😊
HAHA wow this is exactly what I am doing these few weeks, my school has Career Day coming up where professionals review our portfolios. So we have been making them nice! And then boom, this video drops! Thanks mate!
Woah good luck! Hope you ace it
@@Erindale Thanks!
very cool to get a look through some awesome portfolios with your commentary. very satisfying having some of my thoughts followed up by you saying the same thing lol. that geometry nodes city really did start making me think of cool stuff that could get built.. hopefully they give some more info on how they made the whole city!
This is a highly useful video indeed! I haven't made my first portfolio, but I have a bunch of projects that I would like to showcase in a portfolio, but I have no idea what's the best way to do it. this comes in handy for sure
Most valuable information and insight. Its priceless!!
Thanks so much Suhail
Much thanks for this Sir Erindale
Thanks for this video, it's good information. I do a variety of different work, and it's very difficult to convey in a portfolio. Your advice on curation is helpful. I once sent a client a list of links to TH-cam videos I made. Of course, they apparently did not watch all of them. They clicked on a 2D animated commercial I made. They then made assumptions just based on that, that I wasn't a good fit for their needs, which were medical illustration animations, which I have done, but they did not look at those, so it's important to curate for specific positions and not include other things, no matter how proud you are of them, no matter how good they are. It doesn't matter how vast and varied your experience is, if the first thing they look at doesn't seem to fit their needs, they will skip over everything else.
Yeah it's just the unfortunate state of the world. Hiring managers at big studios can have 1000+ applicants per role advertised so it's important to give them exactly what they want
There can be artists who use a body of work that is constant that is their portfolio such as Beeple and many Visual Artists, a portfolio for Jobs may be one that is curated for work purposes is not the same as an artistic portfolio of ongoing art projects, these are not the same in reduction, but in general for digital artists looking to work in the space of design, games, film and some other spaces then of course it can be viewed and used in that way, but not for fine arts or other types of visual arts
I suppose I should've qualified this as "portfolios for gainful employment". For those who are more just looking for commissions, social media algorithms favour constant activity over quality of individual pieces. That being said, if you're a fine art student and you need to produce a portfolio for university admission then that's going to need to be a curated portfolio again.
I went to Ringling College of Art and Design for a summer class about portfolio design, and I learned more in this video than from that class. Great work sir!
Haha thanks 😁
@@Erindale Wait I totally forgot you go by they/them, sorry if sir was offensive!
Aw no thanks for being considerate! I only take offence if offence is intended 😁
Very helpful themes here. Thanks for the insights.
i'm late, but if your'e still taking feedback, please do more of these reviews! Wonderfully helpful, and just cool to see the communities work!
I’d really like to actually! They’re a nice change of pace to get into and it seems like a lot of people are looking for work right now as well so definitely prime time
Thanks once again! Great video! 😊
Thanks Ewa! Amazing work
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Coming from web dev, I was actually shocked that the text as an image was praised
It’s just because artstation is garbage for portfolio presentation so doing it in an image is the only way to keep things in line and compelling as you read down the page 🥹 I definitely wouldn’t want to see it on a personal website where you can actually control formatting
I was in formation last year and had an adobe "student" account. I spent one week to present my 3D/Game works on adobe Portfolio. The license expired and I lost my access to my portfolio. Never again I will do a portfolio
Haha gutted! At least Artstation is free
@@Erindale Ah yes good platform indeed, I created an account a long time ago, but it is for real artists so I never posted anything, too ashamed of my work compared to what is found on artstation
Another great video, Erin. Thanks mate.