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Simon Gustafsson · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:26 am

Hello fellow Sijuners!

I recently put together a website for self promotion in order to try and get a new job.
These are some examples of my work. They are all millions of years old.

Please pay a visit to my site and tell me what you think of it!

www.simonpaints.com

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Mitsui · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:58 am

wohoo awesome portfolio simon!

Good luck with that
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Max · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:14 am

Great stuff! Your skeches are really beautiful. The 3d images on your site are pretty cool too. Keep up the good work!

Naeem · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:19 am

Wow Simon!
You are one talented guy. I enjoyed looking at every single piece. I'm sure you'll find a great job Smile

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MCMA · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:11 pm

Hej Simon.

I'm hooked and love the paintings. That's a strong folio. I think you want to focus on environment design and as such it might be nice to complement the mood and overview boards with renderings of one object in a scene for example. Here's what I'm thinking. You want to show you can establish a mood and an interesting environment, and also take a part of your painting and render it out with such detail that all the information a 3D modeller needs is in there.

You're already illustrating this ability by showing your 3D folio as well. It shows you understand their needs. Brilliant. So to sum it up. You have awesome mood boards and overview boards there. Complement them with whatever you see fit to make you even more marketable as a designer. Be it designed architecture, cool structures or what have you. The grand ideas are already there. I'm a fan Smile

The page is super intuitive, clear and easy to navigate. Perhaps add a little more work relevant information about yourself and don't be shy of spilling out in clear text what you want. Goal: To land a job in environment design etc etc. As with all marketing, end it with a punchline of action. ORDER NOW!! hehe.
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SquarePixel · member Member # Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 64

Simon,

wow man, you got some great stuff in your folio, I'm glad you finally got that site up for everyone to see.

gLitterbug · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:40 pm

Awesome stuff. So you worked on Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth?

kalakal · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:37 am

awesome work, cant you get a higher resultion on those images?
good luck finding a new job. altought, i dont think you will needing it Smile

Freebooter · member Member # Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 417

So you did enviromental concepts for Dark Corners of the Earth? One of the best games I had played in years. And very nice art directing in it. Good job.

Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262

wow i hope for the best. portfolio looks great

bluepixel · junior member Member # Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 28

These are great, my favorite is the <bild2.jpg> image.

Pixelbrush · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:18 am

I already commented this at conceptart.org but I say it again. Just awesome.
You know how to capture atmosphere and spirit of the scene.

Great portfolio.

Simon Gustafsson · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:01 pm

Mitsui: thank you! I checked out your website. Great stuff!

Max: Cheers! I really like the stuff Ive seen you post in the speedthread

annis: thanks! i got a couple of offers and accepted one. ohooo!

MCMA: You are totally right about rendering up some more detail. I always tend to focus on mood rather than content. I should do more research and not be so lazy =)
And perhaps I could sell myself a little bit better aswell. Its hard though. =)

SquarePixel: thank you! My brother helped me with the website. He's great! (thanks Viktor!)

gLitterbug: I did work on DCotE for about a year. Since then Ive worked on a Westerntitle that never happend and another Cthulhu game "Destinys End". Headfirst is currently looking for a publisher for that title.

kalakal: Thanks alot! ive updated this thread with higher rez images. I hope it should work.

Freebooter: Im glad you enjoyed the game! I only did some concepts very early for it. Then I did some background art. I think there is still some of my stuff in the later underwater levels....

bluepixel: thank you! Its inspired by a piece by the Swedish painter Gustaf Cederstr�m.

Pixelbrush: thanks! im glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you everyone. I got myself a new job down in London which Im starting in the new year. Really looking forward to it. hopefully I will be able to post more stuff soon. See you!
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