“Don’t limit yourself to the dimensions that IG wants you to have” - best advice I think I should remember for my portfolio 😩. -- and yes please do more of these, please and thank you.
Yes. Definitely do more videos of reviewing portfolios. I’m trying to build my portfolio so someone can see if I got what it takes. I hope you see it once it’s done.
Hi Laura, I'm Toygun Nisanci, thank you very much for viewing my portfolio. Thanks to you, I realized my mistakes. especially your comments were very valuable to me. ✨😇
this is giving me flashbacks to this past semester listening to my professors pick apart our pieces detail by detail. But it's so helpful to hear these tips, man, I will have to revisit this when I'm going to make mine!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! My portfolio wasn't one selected for this video, but the information given on the ones' features has given me ideas to apply to mine! I look forward to watching your videos every time you post!! Can't wait to see the next one of this!
This was awesome advice, not just for the people you reviewed but also for the rest of us forming our portfolios right now. Please do more of these, your advice is insanely helpful!!
❤ Love all your videos, but this one by far was my favourite! So so informative and useful to hear the thinking process of an expert in the field, thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Laura. As a full-time composer, I find many of your observations apply to the world of music as well. Best wishes to all of you visual artists! 🎨
This was sooo helpful! I will work on my portfolio in 2021 (I'm second year university student of 5 year long major). Thank you so much for this video!
i’m not a professional artist, but i really admire your work and your personality. I love learning to improve my own work even as just a hobbyist, thank you for making videos like this!
this video is super helpful!!! please do this every month so i can have a higher chance while also learn from the others! hehe Thank you so much Laura! you are the only UA-camr that i really have to watch every single video here on UA-cam!
I've decided to seriously make my portfolio even though I'm a marketing management major. I've learned a lot here and I'll try to apply them. Hope my portfolio gets picked in the next video.
These critiques were super helpful! You mentioned color roughs, and I would love to hear your advice on creating various color roughs for a painting and how to choose colors!!
This was such an insightful video Laura! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pls do another one because the feedback you shared was really eye opening, lots of things I didnt think about while putting my portfolio together.
I’m no good at creating portfolios as I find it difficult to like my own art…… it’s difficult to know what’s my best pieces It’s way amazing awesome to subscribe to someone who’s worked at Disney animation!!! 😍😍😍
Can you share the portfolio that got you your viz dev job? Would love to see what's different in it compared to your background portfolio! Awesome video!!
You're doing great, Laura! Keep up the good work! Also, if you're an artist reading this, you can totally get away with just having an artstation instead of getting a squarespace website! I'm sure Laura can't say this with the sponsorship, but I'm in an adjacent industry and I have critiqued a number of portfolios. Artstation is fine, don't feel like you need to pay money, just do your best to make things look professional!
thank you! I think as far as websites, artstation is one of the less professional ones- it crops your work into squares and then when you zoom in on each one, there's a big advertisement beside it. it looks more like instagram or another social media page with the square images and all the like/share buttons and followers. If you want a free one that doesn't crop your work into squares/isn't covered in ads, I used blogspot for years (think it's called blogger now). most of the other animation artists I know started on blogspot and upgraded to websites like squarespace later on. and if you have to use artstation, make sure to only have 1 image in each square, no hidden images after you click.
@@lulusketches Those are incredibly fair concerns with artstation. I have seen people get hired with Artstation doing UI for games which is wildly different from animation art. I don't know enough story art, 2D animators, and background artists, most of my friends are in 3D animation so they just host their demo reel on vimeo and send the link in emails or on their resume. I just wanted to add options for people who may not be able to afford to make their own site. Blogspot/blogger is probably a great alternative! I'd also just like to emphasis that if you are using a host just try to cater your work to look aesthetically pleasing on the site that you are using.
I loved that video! Hope you can do more! I wanted to share my portfolio too but I wasn’t really satisfied with it but maybe next time :) I love your UA-cam channel by the way! I’m a student animation and you explain so much and give great advice thank you! It’s really helpful!
Hi Laura! I loved this video and found it very educational and engaging! Thank you sm for uploading! If you decide to do more portfolio reviews (which I hope you do), which platform do you normally announce submission times? Solely Instagram or..?
I have a question! You discuss line weights in the second portfolio and how it adds more expression to the characters. That's awesome advice, but in animation isn't uniform line weights desirable? In illustration I can see variation helping, but in an animation portfolio wouldn't it be better show the character how it would "actually" look when finished? Or maybe because in a still, all you have is an illustration so make the most of it? Idk. Thoughts?
I think having uniform line weight and showing “how it would actually look when finished” could work for TV, but having variety in your lines still add more appeal to your drawings. For feature, since almost all feature movies are in 3D, the character designers aren’t trying to make their designs and explorations look like the final rendered 3D artwork. They’re trying to put as much life into their characters as possible, and having line variations give your drawings more depth. Honestly, it’s all about having appeal in your drawings. This is also why sometimes the visual development looks way better than the actual movie/show itself, because all the “life” in those sketchy exploration drawings are bleached out by the clean uniform lines in the final production.
This was very helpful and I would love to see more of these!! :) I don’t have a portfolio yet but I have a better understanding of how to build one now!
You're a goon and I love you. haha. OH, and I guess and an actual comment on the video: I'm so glad you did this. I feel like it's going to be EXTREMELY helpful for people as a resource.
Hey Laura! I'm a fan of you, Mabel, your art! I study your work now and again to learn and get better, and just a little bit ago I was watching an old video of yours (the portfolio that got you hired) while working on art to update my own portfolio. As I was watching I noticed that in the bottome left corner of your pages you had a title and a mini description of your pieces. When it comes to online portfolios nowadays, what are your thoughts on that? Should we assume the people looking at it understand what it is, or do you recommend putting the title (if applicable), and a description or blurb on the pages? Bonus question, tagging off of that: maybe if the title and description isn't included in the art, it could be added on the site? For example, I used Squarespace and there is the option to add a title and caption. Or do you think that shouldn't be included either? Thanks! 😄
For the first person you reviewed - are you recommending they make a different website for their graphic design work altogether, or just to separate it into a different tab on their website? I'm someone who's really struggling with this issue as I have both visdev, character design, and graphic design sections on my website! Thanks!
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when you wanted to send your portfolio but you don't have one
Same 😭
lol same
Mood
Start one! =) Artstation is a good place for that
Oh my gosh you reviewed my portfolio!!! Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback, I’m excited to use it to guide me while I improve my work
I'm so glad it was helpful!! :)
wow this is so cool!! would you consider doing this again? i would kill to get my portfolio critiqued by a profesional🤩
Check out NicMundo on Twitch, he does portfolio reviews every month
@@AnniekinDraws woah thank you! I’ll check them out rn
saaaameeee
This was so, SO great. Very on point criticism, zero problematic. I was blown away by how professional your insight was. Congratulations!!
“Don’t limit yourself to the dimensions that IG wants you to have” - best advice I think I should remember for my portfolio 😩.
-- and yes please do more of these, please and thank you.
draw landscapes and split it for an Instagram swipe post!
Laura! thanks so much for the portfolio review!
I hope it was helpful! beautiful work!
Valuable feedback. I learned a bunch, even being a professional! haha. Great video Laura.
Yes. Definitely do more videos of reviewing portfolios. I’m trying to build my portfolio so someone can see if I got what it takes. I hope you see it once it’s done.
Hi Laura, I'm Toygun Nisanci, thank you very much for viewing my portfolio. Thanks to you, I realized my mistakes. especially your comments were very valuable to me. ✨😇
I'm so glad it was helpful!!
this is giving me flashbacks to this past semester listening to my professors pick apart our pieces detail by detail. But it's so helpful to hear these tips, man, I will have to revisit this when I'm going to make mine!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! My portfolio wasn't one selected for this video, but the information given on the ones' features has given me ideas to apply to mine! I look forward to watching your videos every time you post!! Can't wait to see the next one of this!
Wow, you're really great at giving criticism! Not many people are as good at that as they think.
This was awesome advice, not just for the people you reviewed but also for the rest of us forming our portfolios right now. Please do more of these, your advice is insanely helpful!!
❤ Love all your videos, but this one by far was my favourite! So so informative and useful to hear the thinking process of an expert in the field, thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Laura. As a full-time composer, I find many of your observations apply to the world of music as well. Best wishes to all of you visual artists! 🎨
Love you 😭❤️ get so excited when I see you post
This was a super helpful video!! Would love to see more portfolio reviews!
listening feels like I'm on animation mentor after we do our projects.
This was sooo helpful! I will work on my portfolio in 2021 (I'm second year university student of 5 year long major). Thank you so much for this video!
Please do more
I love your critiques and currently I'm working hard to make my portfolio
I CAME AS FAST AS THE POWER OF ART EVEN THOUGH I'M STILL IN SCHOOL!!!!
also knowing me, my portfolio would just be cats XD
This was soo informative to watch! Thank you! I’d love to see more videos like this! Maybe by then I’ll have my portfolio finished!
I would love to see more of these type of videos! The tips are very useful even though it isn't personalized advice
i’m not a professional artist, but i really admire your work and your personality. I love learning to improve my own work even as just a hobbyist, thank you for making videos like this!
this video is super helpful!!! please do this every month so i can have a higher chance while also learn from the others! hehe Thank you so much Laura! you are the only UA-camr that i really have to watch every single video here on UA-cam!
I've decided to seriously make my portfolio even though I'm a marketing management major. I've learned a lot here and I'll try to apply them. Hope my portfolio gets picked in the next video.
These critiques were super helpful! You mentioned color roughs, and I would love to hear your advice on creating various color roughs for a painting and how to choose colors!!
Thanks for the advice! Sad my portfolio wasn't selected but maybe next time! Hope you'll do more of these, super helpful 💛
Just went through an animation bg course and all of your critiques were consistent with my instructor's :D
that's awesome, thank you for telling me! I'm not super confident with my critiquing!
I absolutely love this video! I love how personal you are with your audience in taking time to make this:) keep it up!
You should DEFINITELY do more of these!! It was incredibly helpful, insightful and just interesting!
I love this video, so educational, keep up the good work, you are so inspirational.
this was really great. Would love to see this being turned into a series in the future.
I clicked so fast since I love your videos! I´m a graphic designer, so I learn all about the animation world with your videos and techniques :)
So u should do a portfolio for a particular theme or thing?
Like a different portfolio for environment and and character design?
This was such an insightful video Laura! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pls do another one because the feedback you shared was really eye opening, lots of things I didnt think about while putting my portfolio together.
please do another one of these! so helpful!
Any advice for art portfolios is great to get. Please do more. Hopefully mine will get picked in future.
Please do more of these! Disney is my dream job and I feel like my work isn’t good enough even though I am quite young ;;
Your videos are quite helpful for animation artists
I’m no good at creating portfolios as I find it difficult to like my own art…… it’s difficult to know what’s my best pieces
It’s way amazing awesome to subscribe to someone who’s worked at Disney animation!!! 😍😍😍
Please do more of these this is helping me edit my own portfolio. Great work to the artists too!💖✨
You are such an inspiration! Love your work and your kind personality. Keep the good work!
Can you share the portfolio that got you your viz dev job? Would love to see what's different in it compared to your background portfolio! Awesome video!!
Please make a video to how to make a character animation portfolio
This is really helpful. Thanks for sharing, Laura.
You're doing great, Laura! Keep up the good work!
Also, if you're an artist reading this, you can totally get away with just having an artstation instead of getting a squarespace website! I'm sure Laura can't say this with the sponsorship, but I'm in an adjacent industry and I have critiqued a number of portfolios. Artstation is fine, don't feel like you need to pay money, just do your best to make things look professional!
thank you! I think as far as websites, artstation is one of the less professional ones- it crops your work into squares and then when you zoom in on each one, there's a big advertisement beside it. it looks more like instagram or another social media page with the square images and all the like/share buttons and followers. If you want a free one that doesn't crop your work into squares/isn't covered in ads, I used blogspot for years (think it's called blogger now). most of the other animation artists I know started on blogspot and upgraded to websites like squarespace later on.
and if you have to use artstation, make sure to only have 1 image in each square, no hidden images after you click.
@@lulusketches Those are incredibly fair concerns with artstation. I have seen people get hired with Artstation doing UI for games which is wildly different from animation art. I don't know enough story art, 2D animators, and background artists, most of my friends are in 3D animation so they just host their demo reel on vimeo and send the link in emails or on their resume. I just wanted to add options for people who may not be able to afford to make their own site. Blogspot/blogger is probably a great alternative! I'd also just like to emphasis that if you are using a host just try to cater your work to look aesthetically pleasing on the site that you are using.
Yes! please do more! This is so helpful.
This is such a great video! I get so excited when you post!
Yes please, would love more of these reviews!
This has so much valuable information 💜
This is very helpful, thank you so much^^ I have taken some notes and I hope to improve my portfolio for future education and projects
Yes! more of these!^^
Yes I love these! Inspires me to get a portfolio together to send in. 😊
I loved that video! Hope you can do more! I wanted to share my portfolio too but I wasn’t really satisfied with it but maybe next time :) I love your UA-cam channel by the way! I’m a student animation and you explain so much and give great advice thank you! It’s really helpful!
So much talented people
Hi Laura!
I loved this video and found it very educational and engaging! Thank you sm for uploading! If you decide to do more portfolio reviews (which I hope you do), which platform do you normally announce submission times? Solely Instagram or..?
You inspired me to pursue an art career. Please keep posting!!
this was so helpful! i would love to see more videos like this 😄
I have a question! You discuss line weights in the second portfolio and how it adds more expression to the characters. That's awesome advice, but in animation isn't uniform line weights desirable? In illustration I can see variation helping, but in an animation portfolio wouldn't it be better show the character how it would "actually" look when finished? Or maybe because in a still, all you have is an illustration so make the most of it? Idk. Thoughts?
I think having uniform line weight and showing “how it would actually look when finished” could work for TV, but having variety in your lines still add more appeal to your drawings. For feature, since almost all feature movies are in 3D, the character designers aren’t trying to make their designs and explorations look like the final rendered 3D artwork. They’re trying to put as much life into their characters as possible, and having line variations give your drawings more depth. Honestly, it’s all about having appeal in your drawings. This is also why sometimes the visual development looks way better than the actual movie/show itself, because all the “life” in those sketchy exploration drawings are bleached out by the clean uniform lines in the final production.
I would love more of these!
This was very helpful and I would love to see more of these!! :) I don’t have a portfolio yet but I have a better understanding of how to build one now!
This is so helpful!! I love videos like this and I would love more!
Loved this! I learned so much. I'd love to see more critiques!!
I would love to see more of these!! Super helpful!
Will you be doing more of these? Id love to try and submit a portfolio sometime!
Pls do a part 2💕💕
Awesome video. Super helpful tips. I would love to see more i this kind of video where you critique other peoples art/portfolio
Thank You so much, it was helpful, I'd watch the next :)
Missed you sooo much!!! I have never clicked on a video this fast
Thank you so much for making this video.
When you want to send Laura your portfolio, but you're a 3D animator
Thank you Laura! It's really useful even watching your review of other people's portfolios! ;) Lots of great tips by learning from mistakes!:))
What a thumbnail! 😍
Thanks! Hope you can pick some more in the future.👍
I loved this video! Would definitely love to see more.
I'm still hoping for Christmas rom-com review !!!!
Critiques are my favorite videos!
But can we just take a minute to appreciate Laura's hair and widow's peak (🤣)? So gorgeous
aw thanks!! I have a huge widow's peak! 😂
Yes please do this again!
Omg the thumbnail is killing me!!!
hi! i wanted to ask, that many people advise to include life drawings, but then how do we keep the portfolio cohesive to the subject
You're a goon and I love you. haha. OH, and I guess and an actual comment on the video: I'm so glad you did this. I feel like it's going to be EXTREMELY helpful for people as a resource.
LOVE YOU AMANDA JOLLY! your character design skills are a flippin inspiration!
I didn't make a portfolio but now I know what to do when making one
Love watching these, I learn lots :D
I love this video, it's so informative!
This was sooooo cool
When you want to send your portfolio but you don't have one and have no interest in becoming an animator😂
this is so informative thank you
Thank you for doing this!!
Great feedback. Very helpfull thankyou.
This was so helpful and insightful-I would love the chance to submit my portfolio, or just see other critiques!
Long shot, but would you review a portfolio website if all my stuff is storyboards rather than painted, rendered material?
Yay it’s here!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! This was really helpful. :)
Hope next time my portfolio will be selected 🙏
Hey Laura!
I'm a fan of you, Mabel, your art! I study your work now and again to learn and get better, and just a little bit ago I was watching an old video of yours (the portfolio that got you hired) while working on art to update my own portfolio. As I was watching I noticed that in the bottome left corner of your pages you had a title and a mini description of your pieces.
When it comes to online portfolios nowadays, what are your thoughts on that? Should we assume the people looking at it understand what it is, or do you recommend putting the title (if applicable), and a description or blurb on the pages?
Bonus question, tagging off of that: maybe if the title and description isn't included in the art, it could be added on the site? For example, I used Squarespace and there is the option to add a title and caption. Or do you think that shouldn't be included either?
Thanks! 😄
dude you should do ink master but with illustrations like these
Is behance good for showcasing our work ? What's your view, Laura ?
this was very helpful~! i would love to see more portfolio critique video and would love a chance to submit mine! 🥺also mabel is too cute!!
For the first person you reviewed - are you recommending they make a different website for their graphic design work altogether, or just to separate it into a different tab on their website? I'm someone who's really struggling with this issue as I have both visdev, character design, and graphic design sections on my website! Thanks!