Home work set from week 1 was to find examples of good and bad portfolios. When browsing through portfolios we had to consider the talent of work shown and production quality of the website. When I began researching, I went back to early showreels I had watched when researching ideas for my Specialist 3D project. Something I only noticed till now was the audio that played in the background of the animation was really off putting. A couple of months ago when I last watched these show reels I had watched them on mute at University. The music constantly changed in levels of volume and to the point when you were not concentrating on the animation any more.
Next I wanted to find a show reel that showed off their animation without the need of any music in the background. The next portfolio I came across was this portfolio by Hanna S. Abi-Hanna. Her portfolio displays her amazing animation and illustration work.
When you enter her website you are first greeted with a homepage, here there are links that will take us to the artists portfolio/work, her resume and there's also an option if you want to email the artist. In her show reel the work varied from 2D to 3D animation and also showing the animation in various stages of progression. This is a great example of how to do a show reel correctly.
The next portfolio I looked at was by Alexander Curtis. The work shown on this website looks really cool, however why I choose it as a example of a bad portfolio was because a lot of the content was restricted and required me to log in with my Vimeo account details. I don't have a Vimeo account and was unable to see majority of the content. however what I did see looked good.
With this portfolio my first impressions were that the background was too yellow and wasn't very appealing to the eyes at all. The work that was there was good, but there wasn't much of it or any variation like the other portfolios. I also noticed that the layout of the images was very lazy and there didn't seem to be any care in how the images were laid out. One final note is when you first enter the website the first image you are greeted with is a cartoon version of the artist. I feel maybe some of his best work should have taken centre stage here and not an image of himself.
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