I’m new to learning Blender and looking for a good place to keep a portfolio of projects and art that’s publicly viewable. Anyone know of any good sites for that?
Artstation is probably the most popular place.
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Only because Art Station these days is essentially forced on you if you want to present yourself for employment opportunities at studios.
Otherwise, Epic Games (the site’s owner) has been running the site into the ground by allowing it to become flooded with AI-generated imagery (to the point where genuine creative work quickly gets buried).
Sadly, I am not sure there is a lot out there that employers look at that do not have glaring issues of their own (whether it be the AI issue or other practices). There are numerous independent communities like CGMeetup that have come online but I am not well versed in how they get your work out there.
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Sad day, well thanks for the tips anyays
Yes I am not saying I am fond of Artstation but it does seem the most popular.
I think for a professional artist ones own website could be a better option, people who visit your portfolio will be concentrating on your work (and not distracted by the rest) but you would not get much (if any) “passing trade”. It is a place to direct your clients/acquaintances.
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If you’re serious about getting work or employment (not just sharing for fun) I would highly recommend NOT posting to any of those sites. Make your own.
The simple reason is that as soon as your customer/potential employer visits your work on one of those sites, they are immediately pushed hard to view a million other similar works by others.
That is not what you want. You want your audience to focus on you and you alone for as long as possible.
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Yes, it’s still where I post everything because it’s where 100% of my new freelance work comes from, but you’re right, that AI sh*t is everywhere including the marketplace.
I sent 3 emails to them asking to rectify this issue that has ruined a once valuable space, but all were ignored. Not so much as a ‘Hi, I’m Brad the AI pretending to be a person’ response. Nothing. They don’t care.
I was just going to link Cara too. It went viral a little while back in the sense that it was a ‘mass migration’ event by artists who wanted a space free from the infection of AI, which I believe is 100% not allowed on the site. It may even become the next Artstation.
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I never did artstation; i did create a Cara account a few weeks ago. I’ve not spent a ton of time on there, but so far i thought it was nice.
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It is probably an indication that they do get revenue from it
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That’s what I would assume. Posting on social media sites can be fun, but it’s probably better to at least put in the effort of creating and updating your own portfolio website using Wix or SquareSpace or something so they can only look at your work on your portfolio.
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As others have said already, Artstation, Cara, Instagram, Behance, are all populars websites, but I’d suggest to start with a personal blog or website.
Keep it as your main “repository” and use any of the other sites to post the same portfolio pieces and link to your blog/website, to bring traffic to it.
I personally avoid social media and portfolio sites because I’ve had very bad experiences with them, but not everyone’s experience is the same so try them out by yourself and see what works best.
holeinthewallhosting is also worth checking out for hosting a portfolio.
I think Cara also implemented Glaze and Nightshade to have a little protection against AI stuff.
Those two programs can also be used for your own portfolio site without having to rely on Cara.
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
EDIT
found the Announcement of implementation;
https://cara.app/blog/cara-glaze-about
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Thank you for letting us know about Cara, thought artstation was the place to go.
I didn’t notice this reply earlier, but I completely agree with it.
You will absolutely be taken more seriously if you have your own domain and your own website, including an email address that is your own… Not just an assortment of characters that you had to use to create a Gmail account or something like that.
And a huge ditto to the point that when you’re hosting all of your portfolio on something like artstation or cara or Instagram, any potential client is immediately going to see work from other artists and check those artists out, too.
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