We were asked to look for different online portfolios of people that are either in the industry or looking for jobs in the industry. we had to find a few good portfolios and a few bad ones and why we thought certain ones were either good or bad. I found a few good ones and bad ones and have listed them below and why I think they are good and why I think they are bad.
Good
This is my fist example of a portfolio that I think is good.
This is Tyler Fermelis's Portfolio. He has worked on films such as Fantastic 4, Happy feet and Spider man 3. He has also worked on games such as marvel heroes and he shows all the work from them projects in his portfolio. It is very organised and it is easy to find a specific piece of work that you could be looking for and all the work shown is very big and up there in your face, which shows he is proud of his work and doesnt have anything to hide in it.
When you click on on of the titles at the top to find a certain area of his portfolio it is expanded from the side over the top of his work. This keeps the website consistent and also keeps it clear and easy to understand. When you click each section it also shows what his role was when he was working on the titles. Such as when you click on the film section is says he did film texture painting/modelling and when you click the thumbnail when he worked at gazillion is says he was lead character artist on marvel heroes. This is good because all information is clearly displayed and everything is very clear.
When you click on his portfolio section and click a piece of work you want to see it brings it up in full screen and says what the model is, it also shows multiple viewpoints of the model and some of them even show wire frames. When you want to navigate through the portfolio you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate them making it nice to use and it also runs very smoothly.
If you hover over the picture of the work in the portfolio it also brings up smaller thumbnails of the other work that he has worked on and you can click them if you wish to skip directly to them to have a look at certain pieces of work.
I really like the way he has his contact page on his portfolio. It has his email there so you can contact him easily and also it has a telephone number on which you can reach him on. The bit I like a lot on this page is where you can leave your name and email and can post comments about his work or if you want to get in contact with him making it easier than having to open an email to email him, I would think this gets a lot more people leaving feedback and contact details on his portfolio than it would if he had just put his email because it is soo much faster and easier to get in contact with him.
This is another portfolio which I think is also really good.
This is Neville Page's Portfolio. He has worked on things such as Avatar, Star trek and Green Lantern. He has mostly worked on films but I think that his portfolio is still a good one to show and how the layout and the thumbnails of his work are clear and make the portfolio easy to navigate.
This is what it looks like when you click to see what projects he has previously worked on. the thumbnails are big so you can see what each are at a glance.
When you click a film this page comes up with various screenshots that are examples of the work that he created for that specific area.
When you click a thumbnail it enlarges it to the size of the whole screen, some have alot more information in them other than just what the thumbnail actually shows.
The website also includes a show reel which is fairly long for a show reel because it is around 4 and a half minutes. Although his portfolio is showing off work for films so I guess that the longer show reel is good for that. The video automatically goes to full screen and loads for you when you click to see it.
Like the other portfolio this one also has the option to send messages and contact the owner strait from their contact page. although he doesn't include an email so this is the only way you can contact them through their portfolio.
Bad
This is an example of a portfolio which I think is bad and I will explain why I think this portfolio is bad compared to other portfolio's that I have looked at.
This is the main page of the portfolio. It is done is Blogger, which I personally think is quite a bad decision to make when you want to create a portfolio and show it off to people.because it is done in Blogger it makes you just scroll down to look at the other work he has done, you can click the titles at the top but it basically just shortens the portfolio to that specific area and makes it look quite empty. There is only one page of work that you can scroll down also which makes the whole portfolio look really empty. He doesnt include any links to other sites such as deviant art. The only link he has is to his linkedin profile.
There is also no pages on his portfolio where you can contact him to ask him about his work or try to get into contact with him again after looking at his portfolio if it was sent to you. This is a major thing because you need to be able to be easily contacted because that will bring up more job opportunities. the fact he has work from games such as fear 2 shows that he has worked in the industry. so he may not have any contact information up because he might already have a job, but even if he does this should be cleared up in his portfolio saying that he already has a job.
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