RyanSpaulding

Anyone have any examples of cool ones they've seen online?

I've got an idea to do one fully in 3d as an art museum...motion in between with interactivity...big project...but I'd like my portfolio itself to be a portfolio piece. Gonna take me awhile as I have to plan it so I can just cut sections out seamlessly and insert new imagry as my portfolio gets better.

Timothy Saunders

A guy that used to work at my office did something like that. He did it in Sketch-Up (becasue that was what he knew). It was a series of boxes and abstract shapes, but it was an animation. As the camera moved around the objects, it would slow down at certain peices and there would be an image from his portfolio on a face of the object the view was frozen on. Then it would move to a new object with a new image. It was kind of cool. I think there was limited resolution, but if you use a more robust program it may have been more impressive.
I like your thought of having it interactive. One thing that sucked about his (as well as many animations) the viewer was stuck with the timing that he gave it. The question is, how to make it interactive?

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joseph alexander

As a recommendation, the only thing that matters with an online portfolio is being able to see images quickly. If some one's recommending you to some one else it's really aggravating to have to wait a few minutes for some flash goop to load.
I've actually had this happen where we've reviewed a number of offices for a proejct and had to update Flash or wait for something to load, and skipped the office entirely because of presentation fluff.

Anyrate, something to think about.

-Joe

andreg

I found this really cool site a while ago which has pretty the effect you're trying to go for

http://www.pixelgasoline.com/

Ernest Burden

I don't see where you ask for advice. But I'm going to give it anyway. Don't waste your time.

Present your work as simply and directly as possible. Do not make a prospective client endure a concept piece in order to see what you do. All too often I see portfolios for renderers that assume the audience is as young as the artist. Most of the people who are in a position to write you a check can't see small gray text and do not have a functional ability to navigate 3D worlds online. The people who work for them might, but those people aren't the ones who make a hiring decision. If the project is to show your completed work then do that. If you want one sample to be a great interactive 3D space then do that, but not as a 'two birds with one stone' concept.

When a client is deciding on whom to hire for a project they may be looking at the work of a whole number of people. Put yourself in their place. This one has this Flash thing that plays annoying techno music, this one has controls that are so conceptual that you can't figure out how to see the damned artwork, this one has such tiny images in a dramatic colored field that your middle-aged eyes can't tell what they show...now lets do a realtime walkthrough of some museum so we can look at samples?

Keep it Simple.

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RyanSpaulding

Maybe I should have been more specific...

I will always have a quick-and-simple way to access my work...but I want something that really stands out...if I combine the work of 3d arch viz with Flash, I think I could come up with something really cool. Another option is one could use it for a CD portfolio to be sent. There are many many great arch viz people around...possibly quite a few could be vying for the same position and while I'll always have a static page to view work, I want something that really sticks in someone's head.

Tim: I was planning on doing static pages in Flash with motion video in between. Thus, the static page where the motion has stopped can have menus and navigation...once they select a button or action, the motion video kicks in and moves to the next static page. It'll require a lot of work and time but I think it'd be just a cool piece to have. I've never done an interior...this may be a fun way to learn. I'll have to keep the video time down for file size but mainly, I want this to be something cool that someone doesn't mind waiting the insignificant little bit of loading time for.

Horhe

Its possible to insert good quality images into a flash presentation wheater for online viewing or a local presentation, and still maintain short loading times. Im talking about seconds, not minutes. You just have to have knowhow

Anyway if it comes to presentations, its a really good idea to desing your own dvd. No i dont mean simply to burn your images onto a dvd (duh) but im talking about the big kahuna - designing the interface and the contents just like all those hollywood movies where you have the fancy dingalings and the bling blings if you know what i mean. Now thats what you call presenting your work with a capital p if you will, especially when you send the dvd to a client.

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RAYMOND

Oh come on guys...
people love the fun sites.....

just bare bones stuff is too under nourished for me

like the gaseline one... there see... you want your friends to see it...

martin walker

yes, very well said.

Nothing more annoying than a confusing / pretentious interface. I recently read somewhere that the average web browser has a tolerance of about 4 seconds before they will move on if they cant find what they want

RAYMOND

thats because boring web sites are boring..
you have give people candy...