Classmate Portfolios Critique
1. Gabe Nunuez
I like the layout of your website. You present all of your artwork in the home page, and then you divide up the artwork based on the type of medium on the headers. I also like your thought process and inspiration behind each piece, as it gives context to the work. The website design is clean and sleek, so it was easy to navigate and pleasing to look at. The only thing I would add is the date and specific materials to each artwork in each of the mediums. Although the materials were listed above in each section, it should be specific to each artwork, and dates should be added.
The layout is simple, and I think it is really good for smartphones, as they can scroll down to access the content rather than having everything be small because of it catering to the computer format. I also like that you provided tons of artwork with a similar theme to show what you specialize in. I do think that you should have a table of contents in the margins in order to easily navigate to certain sections since I have to scroll the page in order to get to the topic. Another option is to put each section into different pages and accessible by headers in order to make it organized. There needs to be a contact page, which allows people to find your socials and contact you.
3. Carole Page
I like your layout, as it is easy to get to the art and to the other parts of the website. I like how you include a variety of animations, including CGI. I feel like putting a variety of animations makes you someone who is willing to take on new hats and can take a variety of jobs. However, I think you should put something on the homepage, like your works together or contacts, since I do not see contacts anywhere. I think “Render” as a category should be removed. Renders in 2D animation are fully animated, edited, and already been composited, while 3D animation, render is when every single part of the animation is finalized, including effects, animations, lighting, and compositing. Both of the videos shown in renders are not renders. The video with the bunny talking is more animation than a render, and the word animation is not a render; it is motion graphics. I think replacing the renders category and making it about backgrounds instead and putting the backgrounds from the character section to there is better. It also avoids the confusion of having the character section having backgrounds when it should be about characters,
I like your layout. It is well organized and when I click on the images, it shows the enlarged version and allows me to see the medium, size, date, and a short summary about the piece. The home shows the work that you are still working on., which is a nice touch. One of the flaws is that there are no animations even though you want to be an animator. Your work is more like pre-production, so putting more animations in can help. You do have a contact page, but the contacts are censored, so make sure you change that in order to have people from the industry contact you.