hey bro, some nice stuff (texture res is a bit crazy in places 
) - the one thing that i noticed whilst browsing, was that the horizontal nature of the layout makes it hard to browse on a PC, I imagine it'd be nice to swish your finger around and pull the pages sideways using an iphone, but navigating with a mouse becomes a chore, as you constantly have to have your mouse clicked on the scroll bar at the bottom, or use middle mouse and dragging (which is less than ideal).
if the site were vertical, the screenshot-links rotated 90 degress, and the images arranged vertically it would just be a case of scrolling with the mouse wheel. and i imagine it would not be that much of a chore for iphone users?
is there a major reason that you want employers to look at your portfolio on an iphone? the people that matter, who will be giving you interviews, will 99 times out of a 100 be looking at your portfolio whilst sat at their desk using at least a 22 or 24inch monitor. design for them, they are the ones that matter!
sorry to talk about the site so much, the work is great, but navigating it was a challenge 
i endorse this artist i have worked with him before and he has great skills motivation and work ethics ... end of statement !
Nice stuff, but crank up the Anti-Aliasing when grabbing viewport captures. No need for jaggies in a portfolio
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awesome
imo it needs more "words", like your name at the top. An Information that makes possible a contact between you and a employer appears only when we click on one of your works. How about your software knowleadges? Languages? Phone? Personal skills?
Personally i like portfolios that gives a concise explanation about some stages of a prop/texture/sprits' production, not just putting some screens of it, it shows your "way of thinking" and can be considered as a plus.
Look at this screen:
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It is noticed that the images are scattered on the screen, making hard to take a direction while visiting your portfolio.
If I were a potiential higher, I would have just closed your website.
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Granted, I'm using Noscript which some employers MAY.
Just build the site for 1024. According to w3schools, 56% or more of internet users use higher than 1024. Then 36% still use 1024. That's 93 or so % right there that you just covered with one resolution.
And most game companies would run higher than 1024 I'd imagine.
(http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp)
Once inside the site: On both 'Highres" and "Lowrez" sites, I have to scroll sideways on my 1440x900 monitor.
Nice sharkdog though.
I don't like the horizontal scrolling at all.
Quote from PsyI don't like the horizontal scrolling at all.
I have to agree, horizontal scrolling just isn't good. It'd be way easier to just make the site vertical and not have to deal with screen resizing issues or anything.
Ned
it seems a little unreasonable to run noscript and then when you do encounter a script to react negatively.
When I designed the site one of my criteria was large images. designing for just 1024x768 would mean my images shouldn't be taller that 500px, I want the layout to look good on 24" widescreens as well as older machines running with CRTs at 1280x1024.
About the choice to to horizontal scroll. I think I mostly addressed it up top but I will elaborate.
Quote from alecmoodyI chose a horizontal scroll because I like how it sits on the page and how it works well combined with windscreen monitors. To me scrolling vertically feels less designed.. maybe because its the default behavior. Also I can pick a common pixel height and then change the aspect ratio and still get the images to line up which is important since vertical resolution is more restricted by toolbars and monitor aspect ratio than horizontal.
Visually I want all my images to line up, in a vertical layout they can share a common width and the height can change, in a horizontal layout the height stays the same and the width can change. Since vertical pixels are more restricted because of toolbars and monitor aspect ratio and my images are nearly all in landscape format, it makes sense to use a horizontal layout. Im not quite sure why some people have such a reaction to using their horizontal scroll bar or clicking their middle mouse button. Its less work than navigating a series of thumbnails.
My original design was going to try and use the least interface possible by putting all my work into a grid where new images span rows and elaborating and supporting images would be in columns. It turns out that is really really confusing to view because the idea only makes sense if you can see a large enough portion of the grid at once to understand the structure.
Those WC3 stats are too general I think. My own website pulls in loads of developers, and according to my stats only 7% of all my visitors have a resolution of 1024x768 or below. That means 93% of all people who visit my site use at least 1280 or above.
I don't object the sideway scrolling. I do think however that it is easy to miss the stuff on the side and that it is hard to use the horziontal scroll bar. I would look into placing big and obvious arrows/buttons on the left and right side to illustrate the fact that there is more stuff over there, and to allow you to scroll much more easily.
Yeah my main problem is that the horizontal scrollbar is so alien that it feels like you are being forced to exit your comfort zone in order to look at work which is supposed to be enticing you in.
So either you get someone who loves the novelty, or you get someone who hates the effort. Instead of a vertical system where people would just be looking at your work because they feel comfortable within the vertical browsing method.
Incorporating widescreen is a nice touch but I think it's possible to show landscape images perfectly well vertically, after all left-right or up-down, you will still have a moment where an image is clipped, and a landscape will fit on a widescreen vertical layout just as well as it would on a horizontal layout.
Also, it can't be that hard to line up image sizes can it? 
Of course I think this is all irrelevant because you have made up your mind and won't change the design, but for my money you would get better reception from potential employers with a traditional layout that they are used to browsing.
And the point that is interesting to me is that instead of talking about your work we are talking about your layout, which is nice to get people talking, but defies the point of a portfolio.
Quote from Rick_DOf course I think this is all irrelevant because you have made up your mind and won't change the design, but for my money you would get better reception from potential employers with a traditional layout that they are used to browsing.
And the point that is interesting to me is that instead of talking about your work we are talking about your layout, which is nice to get people talking, but defies the point of a portfolio.
I disagree. I think the layout is a big part of your portfolio. You may have all of this great work but if no one can get to it why bother?
Quote from Lord NedI disagree. I think the layout is a big part of your portfolio. You may have all of this great work but if no one can get to it why bother?
That's actually what I said.
lol
So - horizontal bad! Vertical good!
Quote from Rick_DI disagree. I think the layout is a big part of your portfolio. You may have all of this great work but if no one can get to it why bother?
That's actually what I said.
See bolded. It's not defying the point of a portfolio as it's part of it...
If that makes any sense.
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