For this unity we were asked to make a Worked Based Portfolio, to include key elements of professional personal presentationsuch as CV, covering letter and online portfolio, review the guezt lectures we had during the term, and talk about the process about the Sheffield Graveyard Project, what I’ve personally done for it and the final result with everyones contribution to it.
First Step
I decided to not turn my university blog into my final online portfolio required for this unity, because I wanted it to be more simple, full of images video that would focus the attention of the potential new boss
Portfolio on EditorX
I found out EditorX while on youtube, appearing as an ad. I’ve already used it previously for a personal project, really enjoyed the interface, pretty straight forward, simple to understand and with all the assets I needed, therefore I tough it could be a good idea to create my portfolio on this platform.
PORTFOLIO LINK: https://anitaghaffa.editorx.io/anita-ghaffarian
Decided to divide my website in
- home
- projects
- about
- contact
HOME
here you’ll find my name and a short video trailer with a sum up of all my best projects I’ve done so far.
Currently I’m still working on the trailer, because it requires a bit of time to revise all the screen recording pictures, and actual past projects I have, so I is a long process. I personally don’t have experience in video editing so my idea is to make a simple showreel with my best shorts, few basic descriptions of the projects and what I do.
PROJECTS
Here I decided to use a layout given by the platform that uses square pictures with a brief description that if clicked can redirect you to the anchor located in the same page, where you can know more about the single project finding more description and youtube videos.
I decided to include my Global Campus studio project collaboration, since is a good example of team work and also shows my skills in graphoc design.
I inclued for 3d Modelling exaples the perfect holiday destination project and my charachter desing & animation, plus couple of personal projects modelling 3d fashion accessories, that can be an exaple of what I’m interested to and as well an example of realistic modelling.
For vr I included my serious game from my first year and my new game I’ve been working on this second year, because both are projects that I’ve work on by my self from the idea to the final result, showing my skillls in 3d modelling, animation, coding and overall my abiity in using Maya and Unity.
ABOUT
Here is a sort of resume with my general info, an overview to understand my interests, past experience, education and languages spoken and my software knowledge.
I used a layout from editor x wich I found really useful
CONTACT
here you can find all my detail, from facebook, linkedIn, youtube Channel and email. You also can message me straight from the page that will redirect the message to my personal email.
After setting up all the website I took time to make my video portfolio that I’ll add in the home page. It has a sum up of my best works and I’ve uploaded on youtube, so it is easy for everyone to see it.
I’ve enjoyed a lot creating my own website, my next step will be having the personalized URL. I also want to set up in my future an artstation portfolio, because after attending a lecture at LCC with a game art recruiter, during his speach he said that most of the people use Artstation to share their work online and that the companies are more familiar with taht platform and tend to check that one during the hiring process.
Resume
For my resume I decided to follow Ed Tlegenov advice, one of our gest lecturers for this unit. Ed is part of the research team for Autdesk and adviced us to have an easy to scan resume that the logarithm that big tech companies use can read easity, in oder to have our CV seen by an actual person and get to the next step.
I used to have a more visual Resume divided in two columns:
After Ed’s lecture I’ve changed it by:
- Using word’s default Font
- making by hand the bullet points
- leaving it in a word format and not PDF
- make it readable from top to bottom
Cover Letter
My cover letter I a short presentation of my self that includes what I’m currently doing, my education back ground, my most recent and relevant Project I’ve been working on and My most relevant skills for that job position regarding both technical or language knowledge.