Valentin Levillain - Level Artist

    Hi !

    I said Student in the title because I'm actually at school and i didn't choose any speciallisation yet (this should become this year) ... even if my portfolio is very connected up to environment / level design at the moment

    But it's still in développement and I will update it regullary :wink: so please comments

    It's here : http://www.minerality.fr

    Bye :monocle:

    Kick ass man, I love your source engine work it looks so clean and nice!

    I would remove this kind of stuff though ...

    - June 2003/2004/2005 : voluntary at the music festival "Terres Neuvas"

    - July - August 2005 : dishwasher

    - July - August 2006 : assistant cook

    - July - August 2007 : super market employee

    - August 2007 : assistant cook

    Game developers don't want your life history, just jobs that might be connected to the games industry. If your applying for an entry position less is more, if they ask what you did before you can tell them.

    Good luck!

    Yeah that's a common mistake many people do when they start, thinking they need to fill every gap in so it's more beefy. Truth is it hurts you a lot more than you may think.

    Also, hello Neji, glad to see you here I still need to test your L4D campaign one of these days with you and the crew

    Cool stuff, but I noticed a few things:

    1. Show bigger previews for your maps. One slim, blurred letterbox screenshot tells me nothing about what I'm about to look at.

    2. Show bigger thumbnail shots, and make them include the full picture. Zooming in on one pipe in a thumbnail makes it a mystery guessing game I much prefer larger thumbnails that contain the entire scene (or at least a large amount of it).

    3. Bigger screenshots would be nice. The stuff you're showing looks really nice, but the screenshots are tiny!

    Anyway, those are my nitpcks!

    Hi everyone

    I did some modifications to my port : http://www.minerality.fr/index.html

    -Add separation to the differents parts on the resume page. I think, resume is cleaner now (but a bit empty haha)

    -Change "level design" button to "Levels", shotter and level design looks a bit pretentious for a student

    -Add a bigger header.

    -Add a download link to my only finished map presented here.

    -Change some colors. (yes I have strange taste )

    -...

    thanks for your attention. :megaman:

    I would suggest aligning all the Level titles to the left of the screen, as it is, it's a little hard to look at.

    You've got some nice stuff in there, especially your TF2 work.

    I prefer to, you changed the background to a gray without colors and added the band on each side to air the images. Personally, I find your black border (still) not very aesthetic and color bothers me a bit (as I said flat effect) ...

    And the back button is a bit too much, with two arrows, right? : D

    Moreover, on maps pages, you've not added the bands on each side as the home page, it's weird ... This leaves not enough breath images.

    And if not, you've never thought of making videos of gameplay / presentation of map? Or even a small flash like on the website of niko18 with panoramic 360 °?

    I know artists should be showing their work first and foremost, but I'm getting the same feedback from multiple people in this industry, it very much helps everyone to have a bit of text to explain how you worked and what you did. It helps you showing you really know your craft and it helps people that would interview you to prepare some questions. It's an all around better discussion because of it.

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