Can anyone here recommend a good site for creating and posting online portfolios?
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To what end? Critique? Employment?
Kevin G.
[I]Kevin Geiger
Director & Co-founder
The Animation Co-op
http://www.animationcoop.org/[/I]
Employment definitely.
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I would say look around at most online portfolios and DON'T copy them.
Most are scary bad.
Find an online portfolio you like and copy the concepts and the ideas you like, it changing it in a way that makes in uniquely your own.
Mine is passable, but needs some tweaking....It doesn't really feel like "me" yet. But it is better to have something up than nothing at all. If it is representative of your work ethic and ability.
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Are you selling yourself as an animator or a character or world builder, or a character designer? What are you trying to become and who are you trying to sell to?
Do you have a website or a home page available to start with?
Happy Trails,
Eric HEdman
animation-story-design-art
Portfolio boards are fine if you're interested in random feedback on your work from anonymous sources, but as a means of obtaining gainful employment in the animation industry, they rank right there with standing by the roadside with a "Will work for _______" sign.
You need to apply directly to studios in a targeted, purposeful fashion. Not doing the homework required to determine which house is looking for what type of artist, and to whom you should send your application, comes across as lazy. :o
KG
[I]Kevin Geiger
Director & Co-founder
The Animation Co-op
http://www.animationcoop.org/[/I]
I used portfolios.com while I was building my site, but I only intended it to be a temporary fix, and a place to direct people to my work.
I wouldn't rely on ANY portfolio site to get work for you. They're salesmen, and they just want to sell their product (which is web space) to you. I had a month's free trial, and during that time I had a saleslady calling me every week to try and get me to spend hundreds of dollars to get a year of service. She said if I spent that amount, that it would put me at the top of their artist searches. I just didn't like the idea of having to pay to be at the 'top of the heap'.
Anyway, that motivated me to build my own website.
My big portfolios.com website expires soon portfolios.com
and turns to the free version,
and my new site is nearly done www.suetheartist.com
portfolios.com served it's purpose, but remember, when you direct people to your portfolio on a site like that, you're also directing them to your competition.
-S
http://www.suetheartist.com
I agree that depending on a website porfolio for work is not realistic...but along with the usual suspects of a resume, demo reel, and some good company homework, it can definitely only help ya! :p
You might want to give www.angelfire.com a try. You can put together a complete website and even make your own online photo albums to show stills of your work in no time. They have of bunch of different options to choose from as far as plans, going from FREE to not so free. Each one offers a different amount of space and such to suit whatever it is you're hoping to put on there. Best thing is, you can just start with a free site (and not have to worry about shelling out extra money) and play around with the look you want and then upgrade later.
I have a one of the free sites and, while there's still a lot of work to be done here and there, I'm happy with it as a start. www.angelfire.com/art3/funziju
(just a little note if ya take a look at it, since mine's free, it's got banner ads on it...that doesn't you would HAVE to go with them though...all the other plans don't have them). As far as just starting a site out, angelfire is not a bad place to go.
Unless it's costing you money, or serving as a placebo. :)
KG
[I]Kevin Geiger
Director & Co-founder
The Animation Co-op
http://www.animationcoop.org/[/I]
By placebo, do you mean its making you think it will get you work?
And so you wait and don't actually check out meaningful employment leads....
GAH!!!.
that would stink.
You'ld slowly go insane and bankrupt.
YUCK!
Happy Trails,
Eric HEdman
animation-story-design-art