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New artist here [NSFW]
bhunt17
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Hello All. I was hoping to get some crits on my website and its content. I haven't put up anything new in a while due to my master's program, but was hoping to get some advice or comments.
Thanks All!
http://www.benjaminjhunt.com/
Thanks All!
http://www.benjaminjhunt.com/
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They just take me to jpegs!
Thread might get locked if you don't post some actual layout Screenshots or somesuch.
My Portfolio Site
ahh good call, will be posting images shortly
and a WIP
My apologies, it was NoScript devilry!
About the rest of the site itself, it kind of depends what kind of feedback you're looking for. From a design standpoint, I'm not gonna lie, it seems kind of lacking. Also, your résumé page layout is a bit broken in Safari on XP--the list overlaps and covers the heading. I'd help you fix it (not that that's something you ought to expect) except that your stylesheet is a giant solid block of text, and there's no way in hell I'm digging through that. If you do want advice on technical aspects of your pages, fix that. I will, however, say that typographically, you may want to look into "’" (’) for the main title's "Hunt's," and "—" (—) or "&ndash" (–) for the closing of your note.
Yeah for some reason I get that a lot. I did a few animations with him back in college and just kept him around, doing things every now and then.
Back when I first included lightbox I wanted a real simple site. I hate having peoples portfolios open me up to a new window or tab just to look at a bigger version, which is a personal preference. When I have some time I was thinking of trying some other viewers and including thumbnails this next time around.
Having said that I really like your home-navigation page as well as your logo with the eyes blinking at the top. Also. some of your pencil drawings are good. Think you could do a better job colouring them in photoshop though.
I think that the eyebrows are making it look dongish because they overlap with the body outline and make it look more like the tip.
http://www.benjaminjhunt.com/gooby_test.swf
sorry for the link, I wasn't sure if I could embed the flash file.
I use to be concerned with being hired to do art but I'm not really anymore. I did graphic design for a start up t-shirt company and after it went under, I greatly prefer doing things on my terms and working on projects I want to work on.
Yeah I'm still trying to figure out my style. Flash can be a bitch your best friend is tutorials. My last job was flash heavy at times, but once you get it to work the way you want, then your in business.
Your Bachelor's says its in 3d modeling and animation, yet on your site you only have 3 rendered 3d images, one is a rounded rectangle and the other two show no real purpose behind the design -and you have no animation.
What you have on your site is all stuff that would be expected as early highschool level stuff at best. Right now, all your website is doing -other than ensuring that no one that would find it woud you hire you for an art-related job- is give a really bad name to the cogswell something school you graduated from.
Where do you see yourself getting a job? Once you know that, work on a portfolio which will show off the best of your abilities.
As for the artwork, your drawings arent bad, but they arent finished. Incoorporate them into something which is more finished.
I'm sorry that you and others see a dick. He is not a dick but if you want to see dick see dick. Obviously you feel my art is sub-par, that's your choice, and yes I did get my BA 3 years ago and 3 years ago my drawing were worse.
As far as what my BA was titled, the school titled it that, then required on 2D and one 3D animation class, not really enough to get anything stellar. The rounded rectangle is actually called an iPod, maybe you've heard of them? Now the purpose behind the other designs, he is a samurai elephant man, and the other is a reject experiment. What more purpose do you need?
I don't think I'm giving my college which was Cogswell Polytechnical, a bad name. I'm not trying to be the next Ian McCaig, maybe I should have more of a blog set up, cause as of right now I'm not trying to get an art job.
I'm not really trying to promote myself as anything. I tend to focus more on my own projects and the site has turned into more of a way of showing my friends what I've been working on.
I agree that my drawings need to be developed more. The majority tend to be in static white space. Sadly all my time is taken up by my master's program, but I'm hoping to have some time to work on some techniques before my student teacher starts in the summer.
You're using your phallic-buddy as a graphic design element on your website. What the viewer sees is more important in commercial art than what the artist intended. You intended to have a mascot that doesn't look like a penis, we're telling you you have a mascot that looks like a penis. Seems like a good reason to try to improve it.
What I meant about your 3d models is that they show no marketable skill that would appeal to an employer.
If you got a BA in Animation and 3D something another and only took intro animation courses, then your college deserves the reputation it'll inevitably get from its alumni showing off their work.
And if you're not trying to get an art job, why would you have a personal website only displaying artwork with public contact information and a resume?
I would have to agree that he is particularly penis looking in the logo, I don't think thats the case in the walk test. He has more of a bean shape to him.
That comment about the 3d models is more constructive, yes they are lacking the wire frame shots giving nothing but the final render and no construction.
I still think the school has a great reputation. Ian McCaig freaking taught there, which was incredible to learn from him.
I had an art job with a start up and by the end of it all, I wanted to work on my own projects, which was close to the last time I updated my site. I've been doing more occasional web stuff more than anything, and went back to school for my Masters in Teaching at The University of San Francisco. I found that I enjoyed teaching more than working for someone that didn't know what they wanted and where they wanted the shirt designs to go. Out of laziness I haven't updated my site in a while.
Also, it's REALLY obnoxious to have to click through your logo at the beginning every time I want to see a new section of your gallery.
Why is there a separate "Drawing" and "Illustrations" category? None of your "illustrations" are really illustrations in the traditional sense, where we should ideally see some kind of narrative, action, setting, or purpose that the image can communicate. They're all mostly just characters posed in a void, the same as everything in the "Drawings" category. What's more, sorry to shit in your cereal, but I think you should probably just remove both of those categories from your website and not market those skills.
On your resume you say your areas of "particular interest and talent" are in Graphic Design (penis logo
Well I already have my art credential, but I'm trying to jump through the rest of the states requirements like taking the other test requirements to teach social science. Once I finish my program I have met all the states requirements to teach art right out the door but I want to be dual credentialed
Yeah Manonvon brought up the fact that there is nothing representing the structure of the models. I should have included wire-frame shots of it, showing the mesh. The ipod is a bit more than just a rectangle. I modeled it with the jacks and everything which I was originally going to animate it being docked. The screen is also a separate component as well. Its there as an example of hard surfacing modeling.