I haven't tried zbrush so much yet, and well, even if you can pretty much do your complete model in it (like in that tutorial), I'd still prefer making the initial model in max/maya, and then going to zbrush for all the details. It's definatly a very powerful app (I have some Gnomon zbrush vids, there's some impressive stuff). 

in general they look pretty good. As others have said, shambler needs claws (and sharp teeth), wizard/scrag a mouthless kinda face, and the shalrath should get rid of the techy bits, it's a mystical creature.

The fiend is good in the shot shown... the ogre ain't that bad in my opinion, I'd add more fat though.

Hmm. I don't know what the tarbaby will look like when moving if it doesn't blob-droop (if you understand) more but instead has just a thin appendage. We'll see, if it's continued along the line.

The rear end of the rottweiler is kinda small in the rear structure but i don't know if it's a wide angle shot or a badly breeded dog as model. :/

Just my ideas, i'm not a modeler or anything. 

I don't like any of them for Quake monsters, but they're good in their own right. Maybe I need to see them with their skins, but they don't look Quakey to me at all. 

I checked out those QuakeRemix level screenshots, and I have to admit that I was surprised anyone could make a Doom 3 level look so shit. 

It would be nice to see artists and modellers take the approach that they're trying to make textures where the original texture ends up being one of the mipmaps, or models where the original models and up being one of the lower LOD models. 

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if you want to get on irc from over there, let me know [ sollers dot inertia at gmail.com ], i can set up an irc bouncer over here to take care of that problem 

can someone tell me if 9702 is spam? it's so badly written i can't tell. 

I sure could use "600000 gold" 

...I'm sure I could use a few citizens daily :) 

mega is copy'n'pasting an email / private message he got about some online game shizzle. 

Thanks for the offer. It would be great, but I really don't need to get drawn into idling. I waste enough time as it is browsing the internet without having people to chat to about stupid things like penises and fizzy peach drinks :) 

[nt] 

Never to drink or eat anything from Blitz, ever. 

than is the one who famously stuck his penis into peach fizzy drink. 

... would have been posted in either food thread or drunk thread guys ;P 

but it's taking too long from this place so it will only be very few for now :( Hope it will work better from school when I get a password to use their computers.

+I'm not really interestes in using irc when I'm here. 

I spent the past couple of days making a little web portfolio. It's not quite finished, as there are a few more images I want to put up, but the navigation design and code are all done.

http://than.leveldesign.org/portfolio lio <-- !

You need Javascript enabled for it to work at all. Don't worry, it's just for image flipping. There is no flash, no sound, no popups, no animated gifs and no redirect to goatse.

I've tested it with Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and IE 6. On my pc it looks the same in all, although it feels a little sluggish in IE.

It is designed for high resolution screens, although my laptop has a fixed resolution of 1920*1200, so I haven't been able to test 1280*960 :( Might be a bit big though :( :(

Navigation should be easy enough, but a kind of hidden feature is that if you click on the main image, it will cycle through all the images, rather than just the current set.

Please give comments on the design, ease of navigation and tell me how it is with your browser. My email address is on the page if you want to respond via email. Also, is it too dark? Looks fine on my screen of course, but there are so many people with dark monitors out there :( 

First thought:
Dammit, this needn't be wider than 1024. I'd at least advise using stretchable layout, or a minimum of 750px (if you care about 800 x 600 users, I do) or like 975px for 1024 x 768.

Second thought:
2 missing images on the top left...
- images%5Cnav_wireframe.gif
- images%5Cnav_getimages.gif

Third thought:
AAAAAAAAAGH my finger feels really weird because when I click a next/prev link the mouse pointer doesn't change to the hand and it just FEELS weird - there's no feedback besidse the color change and I wanna chop off my right pointe finger because of it. :| 

Oh yeah, I do like the idea going with the design by the way. 

I agree, you can change that with CSS, than
cursor : pointer 

I imagine that's how he did it anyway :P (guessing) 

I reckon your name will be featured prominently elsewhere, but otherwise having your name down the side and awkward to read is kind of silly.

And yeah, that seems too huge. If you're applying for a design position, shouldn't you demonstrate forethought and ability to design to the lower common denominators? It seems like 1024x768 would be plenty.

Otherwise it seems ok. 

It's too big. Also, I think it's better to have a gallery of images and open big versions upon click. At least have a bar with thumbnails at the top.

It also misses a bit of personal information - like your age, location, resume or whatever.

And yeah, what phait said about the mouse cursor is true.

Oh and, for me, nothing happens when clicking on an image (Firefox 1.5 Windows XP).

If you want, I can have a look in Safari and see if everything works ok there. 

What others said.

Make it fit 1024. You have no reason to go above that.

Use thumbnails, and really clear navigation.
C'mon, you're not using this folio to apply for 'pretentious web designer' positions, so don't try to look like one. Leave that sort of thing to phait. A potential employer-of-mappers is going to want to see your awesome, efficent mappage quickly and easily.
Design your folio to let them do that.