Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender
Building an Award-Winning Online Portfolio
A course by James Tralie , Producer and Animator
About the video: Building an Award-Winning Online Portfolio
Overview
“Now I will share some tips and tricks for building your online portfolio, and I will talk about how to continue learning and improving as an artist. ”
In this video lesson James Tralie addresses the topic: Building an Award-Winning Online Portfolio, which is part of the Domestika online course: Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender. Learn to create engaging 3D environments using creative lighting, modeling, and texturing techniques that turn your observations into eye-catching imaginary worlds.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'll give you some pointers on creating an award-winning portfolio. So for my website, i've designed it so that As you get to the splash page here, you see kind of an example of one of my works in the background here. And then if you hit to explore my universe, I've kind of designed it so that you've got a nice flavor of your best work. And I've been told that it's best to keep your best work on here. And if you're in doubt about a project to just keep it to the wayside, just don't include in your portfolio, always put your best foot forward as soon as A person is looking at...”
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Course summary for: Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender
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Category
3D & Animation, Architecture & Spaces -
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Blender -
Areas
3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, ArchVIZ, Digital Architecture

James Tralie
A course by James Tralie
James Tralie is a producer and animator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who specializes in creating animations and visualizations that explain complex scientific topics in engaging ways. He has always had an interest in film and animation, and first started creating videos with his flip video camera and LEGO sets in middle school. James went on to study geosciences at Princeton while working on documentary productions as well as for commercial clients. After graduating, he began his career at NASA.
Alongside his work on planetary science missions, James creates commercials, album cover artwork, concert visuals, and more for clients in the film, TV, music, and advertising industries. His clients include Nissan, Facebook, NVIDIA, Apple, Zara, and Marriott. He also shares his expertise with 145K followers on Instagram.
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