Updated Portfolio

This assignment measures Module Objective 8.3, which supports Course Competency 8.

Objectives

• 8.3 Write a description for each of five portfolio projects that states the goal, your role, the process and the outcome. (Course Competency 8)

Overview

Your final portfolio is the central piece of your professional identity: the version employers and clients see when they decide whether to contact you.

10 points, Process Work. About 2.5 hours.

Instructions

1. Review your midterm critique and Portfolio Check-In feedback.
2. Include at least five projects, each with a description of the goal, your role, the process and the outcome.
3. Add your name and a professional tagline (for example, “3D animator specializing in creature and effects work”), a headshot and a banner.
4. Show process work (sketches, storyboards, a design brief or a time-lapse) on at least one project.
5. Make sure the address is short and easy to type.

Drone Footage Option

Aerial footage you capture can strengthen a reel or a portfolio project, and it is real imagery rather than AI imagery. It is one option among many; the rubric grades the portfolio, not the footage.

Drone flights for this course take place only during a scheduled session under the direct supervision of the instructor, who serves as the FAA Part 107 remote pilot in command and can take control at any time. The instructor handles any airspace authorization near campus. No flight passes over people. Students under 18 follow the same supervised path. If you cannot attend a session, ground-level footage you shoot yourself meets the same requirement and earns the same points.

Lab work is booked through STEAMworks and begins with the STEAMworks safety orientation. STEAMworks supplies the materials, including NFC tags, wood and leather, at no cost to you. Booking windows and orientation times are posted in Canvas Announcements in the first week of the term.

Example

Browse working professionals on Behance. Every visitor should be able to answer one question: should I contact this person about work?

Accessibility

Make your portfolio accessible: alt text on every project image (Behance, Adobe Portfolio and Google Sites each have an alt text field in the image settings), captions on every embedded video, headings in order, and link text that says where it goes. Run your home page through the WAVE accessibility checker and fix every error it reports.

Submission

Submit your portfolio link.

Rubric (10 points)

Due