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Posting here for critique and advice.
I am a graphic designer and I have been interested in the gaming industry for a while. I would like a change of career from general graphics production to being an environment artist.
My case is a bit weird though - instead of jumping in and working on building & texturing environments for game mod teams I decided to learn game development from scratch. For the past 6 years or so I've been working through programming & graphic design on a 2D game engine. All the way from writing a program for Windows to using DirectX, collision detection, physics and AI, photo-realistic tiling textures, sprites with backgrounds erased in photoshop, pixel art, etc. My ideal job in the gaming industry would therefore involve wearing multiple hats - working on some coding projects, graphics projects, 3D art, capturing photo references, etc. This will probably require a relatively small team, because large teams want you to specialize.
The portfolio is 99% done, what's left is a piece of artwork on the home page and some photos on the about page. There is a broken image on the home page that serves as placeholder for now.