Hi, my name is Jeffrey Thrash. You may know me from my YouTube channel. I enjoy video games and cartoons and I like to create my own animations. Enjoy!
Age 30, Male
3D Artist
Joined on 2/4/19
Posted by jthrash - October 25th, 2024
Gave my main portfolio website a much-needed upgrade. I narrowed the focus of the site (now it's specialized in 3D modeling specifically), used Wix's portfolio-making tools, updated to my most recent Animation-industry-specific resume, and overall simplified navigation, since at the end of the day, it's just an image gallery and nothing more.
Take a visit for yourself and give me some feedback on both the PC and mobile user experience of my new-and-improved site:
I once have a website, but... Now not anymore
You only really need a website if you're looking for a full-time job in animation. For just posting your stuff online, websites like Newgrounds, Cara and BlueSky are perfectly fine.
@jthrash yo, yeah, i guess i manage my animation/art business like i would manage a pizza parlor, in a pizza parlor menu is full of different pizzas (in the one i work we have 68 different pizzas), so i would imagine a portfolio should be a little similar to it. But like i told i may be wrong since i'm not that much of a professional
Hello Jeffery
Oh hi.
TheMiamiDeSantos
nice website, i think i just would put some more samples in the portfolio, but don't know if 6 is already an enough number according to the statistics , researches or something. You know i ain't much of a professional, i'm more like a freelancer or something
jthrash
I get a lot of conflicting advice about this, some suggest only your "Top 3" best work while some suggest having DOZENS of samples of work, but the general idea is to only show the absolute best of the best on my portfolio website, and only focus on one specialty (3D modeling in this case). I felt these 6 were the absolute best I can do right now in terms of 3D modeling and I'll add more next year if I make stuff in the future that is as good or better what I'm currently displaying. I can always show much more variety on social media websites like Newgrounds here, YouTube, and I'm still seriously considering setting up a BlueSky account to reach more "mainstream" non-artist audiences with my stuff.
For my website though, it's supposed to what I show to potential clients or employers I want to work what I am capable of if I worked with a large team and spent way more time polishing up my work, than if I had to do the entire animation all by myself with no help. NG and other art gallery websites show what I can do as a solo artist, while my portfolio shows what I could do if I worked with an animation team and had way more time to polish my models, since other team mates would cover other parts of the process like texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, etc.