matthewfloyd

Thanks for taking the time for all that mate, cheers for criting my portfolio, going to look into redesigning it, will take the time to go through what you said later tonight. Will look into the scenes I already have and probably remove some and look into what to replace it with. But yeah, thanks again mate, all good stuff.

Thanks for the response, I don't really want to go into details, in case anyone from the studio is browsing around this forum. However this studio was based not to far from London in an area which is quite expensive. The wage the offered me was only just above minimum wage. Even if they upped it after 6 months or a year, sadly wouldn't have been enough. This isn't saying I expect the world, as I don't, id be more than happy to work for a low wage, only if it meant I was comfortable within the area. Can I ask what you lot think of my portfolio? If you was hiring someone for a junior job, what kinda scene would you like to see, or like you say, just scenes that show I know composition and lighting. Im guessing the scene does not matter to much?

Yeah I am mainly looking in london. Or somewhere just outside of london.

Impressive stuff at ikea, interesting article. I work within the kitchen planner at the moment, I get to use vray a little bit when we are taking product shots that we don't have, however I mainly work within maya/unity. I pretty much just learn VRAY in my spare time. Is vray the program to learn? its the program that is used in house, would mental ray be better suited? or maybe even renderman when its released? I'm pretty new to the scene to be honest, as you will be able to see from my portfolio (http://www.mattfloyd3d.com) my work isn't the best, however im always unsure what companies look for in juniors. As the job I was offered a couple of weeks ago offered me a really low wage that I couldn't believe anyone could accept.

Sorry what I meant by the VRAY route was just more realistic rendering rather than games, id never bank on one piece of software getting me a job however you've gotta start somewhere right?. and yeah I figure 25k may be the higher end of the starting rate

Hi! So quick bit of background, I finished university a year ago, 3d modelling for games. Since I got a job in a kitchen company as a 3D artist, since I have been using a lot of 3ds max and vray. Anyway I have been using 3ds and vray for around 5 weeks, and looking to change my career into the vray route. My portfolio is http://www.mattfloyd3d.com At the moment, its very gamey with a little bit of vray. Any feedback about the direction I should be going would be great. As I was recently offered a job that did involve VRAY however the company offered me a salary that I had to turn down due to I would have been unable to rent and live comfortably in the area they are based. Im lead to believe that the average salary for a junior is around 20k/25k (GBP) (depending where it is based ofc). What should I expect? Looking forward to being active on this forum, cheers. Matt