Thanks for the comments. I also agreeā¦ to a degree. Part of what Iāve learned in 10 years of work is that your resume/work should also be a reflection of your personality. Iām a very casual person, and if being formal is part of what gets me hired, I donāt want to work there. And, itās not really about that anyway, Iām a full time college instructor and this is mostly to show a guy and his partner my 3D work and a bit of history. The upper text section did get a bit longer than I thought it would, but itās a bit entertaining, so it makes up for the length. I also donāt mind the style of the page. No Iām not a web guy, I know Dreamweaver very well, Flash, not at all. Either way though, I do think that the basic style is a good/appropriate vehicle for what it is. I agree with showing off the skills you want to highlight and perform on the job. I think that this does that for me. Now, seeing it in maybe a different light, do you really think the site itself needs to be more elaborate. Seriously, I appreciate the feedback.
hey Brian, you have some nice work there, the beer bottles looks excellent. The layout of the site is nothing special though, a little more structure is needed. maybe a nav? so you dont have to scoll so much and you can have a section for each subject.
About meā¦ work examples, contactā¦ so onā¦
:: and yeah i remember the Amiga daysā¦ heheā¦ i had a Amiga 500 and a Commodore 64, great days.
ok, well if you really want to keep that format then ok, iāll give ya seem feedback on it.
i dont think that font works all that well, im guessing its verdana? with that amount of text on the page a large font like that tends to make it look like more text than it really is. maybe something like arial or even just a smaller font size like 10. a serif font might not look bad (georgia)
also with the font it might look better as black, it will give the site something else then tan.
i would tighten up the ātitle cellsā where it says fine art, 3dā¦ the title kind of gets lost in that big block of brown, lol.
thats all for now!
Thanks .soulty. I guess a basic nav system wouldnāt be a bad idea. Iāve had some other comments that agreed with you. I had just wanted to keep it simple. But when simple isnāt betterā¦
Cool, thanks. Itās not that some simple nav is completely out, I just wanted to avoid it.
This is good though, I did want to keep the body copy a serif font, itās always better for readability. Georgia may work. I did try the text black, but with the Verdana, it was too much. With something smaller, it could work. Thanks.
But, the big block of brown is where the Tweedle Beetles Battle.<G> Sorry, I read Dr. Seuss to my almost 3 year old quite often. Iāll work on the block.
hi Brian,
Im a massive fan of life drawing, i study industrial design and find that life drawing feeds your brain all the right things! i really liked your drawings, the proportions looked great. I know what you mean when you said it just all hooked up! it just does sometimes, dont it?!
about ure siteā¦ i think you would benefit from a flash portfolioā¦something basic and clean, casual as you likeā¦ the beauty of flash is that it handles animation better than html so you can showcase some of your 3d skills. in all honesty your site looks too āstudentyā given your skill level.
have a look at this for a clean image based portfolio with much simpler scrolling than yoursā¦
cya, Will
You got that pic from 3D Total didnāt you and then you did the coloring and it looks like you might have modified the head. Am I right? Good coloring btw. Site is kinda bland and doesnāt really pop out at me.
Sexy 3D work. I think that the font used for the descriptions may be a little to big, maybe knock it back down 1 - 2 pts.
Also one thing that will give this more of a pop (but not much) w/o taking away from the actual artwork. Is something like what Iāve doneā¦ again this is only IMO:
http://www.beyondthepixel.com/images/blurr.jpg
Also, you may not want to take away from your artwork but you also need to have a site that compliments what youāve done.
The girl with the sword was modeled from an image found at 3D total. Itās not the same image, I really did do the modeling. The original has a full tutorial that goes along with it. While I did read through the tutorial, I managed to model this on my own, without literally following the tutorial. The author had some great tips on the right way to approach a modeling project. I guess I donāt know about how you work DJ-Studios, but personally, Iād never take credit for something I didnāt do. I did find the image online, and I did model from itā¦ just like the site says.
I appreciate the other comments. I agree simplistik, the site should compliment the work. Thanks for phrasing it that way. I do like what you did as well, the red bars stand out nicely.
I tried going to your page billystar, but nothing seems to happenā¦
the colors dont work. they make me feel like im visiting some war veterans site or somthin. it needs to be more vibrant and lively.
Hmmm, I guess I think of camo as the jungle greens like I had to wear. Thereās a new look for camo with the desert warfare, now people are seeing tans as desert camoā¦ good to know. Thanks ruski_flasher.
yeah as .soulty said, a bit of structure wouldnāt go astray !!
but man lovely work man !!! just need a better way of getting it out there !!!
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Thanks EZEkiel. I appreciate the comments. Maybe Iāll give Plasma a try. Itās supposed to be fantastic for doing 3D interfaces for the web.
Plasma is pretty cool, its basically a cut down version of 3dstudiomax. I think there is flash plugins to export models and/or vector shaded animations from 3dmax.
ah i see ruski, next time can you pm me or another mod, but thanks for the heads-up.
Brian
ive merged the two threads.
Best to have the topic in one place. just a reminder for the future.
sure thing .soulty! 
opps sorry about that, should of merged this to showcase instead of dd, ive moved the thread now to showcaseā¦ all is good, my bad.
Very good imagery. Especially the engine. I must admit ive been working on a concept of an engine. Mostly on paper, but the discovery channel (UK) is as close as i can think. Aghhhrā¦ im side tracking. I like the work, i do tend to see a lot of illustrated artwork on the scene (it all ok, but is starting to flood and become bland) nice to see a more traditional style to it all.
Scott
Iāll post again if I can get a Plasma/3D Flash version working.
Thanks for all your comments,
Brian