Alexander Weide : Facebook Portfolio
Social media and marketing is an increasingly used tool to advertise a product, reach customers and also to analyse visitor statistics. When it comes to this there is not better platform than Facebook. The network option enables you greatly to make future customers be aware of you as well as connecting with new customers.
Facebook links:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexanders-Artwork/
Tumblr link:
http://alex-art.tumblr.com/
DON’T like it.
What’s wrong with it man? It’s using the tools he has available and he went from Maya and Houdini to Blender, nothing wrong with that.
Right! Thanks AlekB. I startet with Maya go to Houdini. Houdini is a great tool for high resolution vfx in big Movie productions because of the unbeatable asset system. Blender go same direction. Blender is free. Blender is the best choice for all the Rest! And i think blender will go to hollywood in the next two years.. the potential of blender is amazing and we will see alot good stuff the next years!
good luck, more of this sucsesful projects, and people will understand that blender is no more undergroud software
I like the whole idea of 3D marketing ! I am doing exactly the same here ! It sparked a whole lot of interest.
Marketing yourself is a very useful tool!
http://Jeremydeighan.wordpress.com
Jeremy deighan
Hi,
I dont like it either. seems like somebody gave a friend some credit by posting about his 4 week old facebook 3D page wich is nice but i have seen bigger and better Portfolios of Blender artists.
to jeremy:
Wow you actualy did every BlenderGuru tutorial there is and you made a blog about!
so AWESOME
i just had to say this. dont kill me
i dont even know why i read all this anyway
cool down
greetingz your best friend Kai-Cent
Tight work, Alexander, the sci-fi guy stands out nicely.
It’s good to see that the idea for FB-portfolios is getting tested. I say tested because it still feels weird…imho, to have multiple portfolio sites. Yet I like the interaction, even prior clients could say a few words about ones work ethic. If anything, it spreads the word about one even being inside the industry.
Yet with timestamping and random user comments, I’d probably go mad trying to be-current.
It’d be interesting to hear how clients/anybody-else views this method. Would hyping a different/main portfolio site; still via FB, be on par with the times..and get the point across. Or does a dedicated branch on FB carry ones work further?
I mean the Web is a sea of portfolio work, it takes time to be creative, yet that time that it takes, removes oneself from the buzz of the public…chicken or the egg?
Jeremy deighan i like your work;) and you are right. And thanks for all the comments. I dont hate someone with a other idea or anything so no problem, i accept your opinion kai-cent. My portfolio will get better in the future..but there is a lot of work to build up my bussines.
Great work Alex, love the sci-fi alien especially.
“He is also evaluating the ability to build a business with Blender’s internal Game Engine.”
Any more info available on this particular part? Im quite fond of the BGE, always good to hear of people trying it out for new things.
@Kai-Cent
Thanks I appreciate it!
@Alex
Yea I’m still new to Blender and all but it’s coming along. I’m learning alot from all the good information out there and plan on putting out some tutorials myself to help anyone out that I can. Keep up the good work!
Jeremy Deighan
Guys, “It’s not about following somebody else’ tutorials ! It’s about getting used to how Blender works”
“Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of the human being. The thing in the final analysis that wills something in him is not he, the personal man, but the aim of the art.”
How’z that for some inspiration and TRUTH ?
Yeah Facebook is a great tool for analysing every bit of data about visitors… I’m just not visiting because I don’t want to have every bit of data about me analysed…
Nice looking work from what I see on this page though.
What do you mean duncan?
iam sorry can you write down your “ideas” in a other room?or tell it your friends. but not me!
I don’t use face book. Looks like someone is using A Weide s art about being forced to leave home.
(little hand, thumb up) Like
Follow me on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VJ-Vector/143350159061388?ref=ts#!/pages/VJ-Vector/143350159061388?sk=wall
I would recommend you go back and read the agreement you signed up with on Facebook. Depending on when and where you signed up it may vary. Essentially, look for the areas that talk about the license you grant Facebook and it’s third party associates whenever you post your content on their site. I knew a photographer who stopped posting on Facebook due to this. However, the rules may have been changed which is why I recommend you go back and read the agreement you personally checked off on when creating your Facebook account. Facebook has had issues in the past with these kinds of things and several people have written about this controversy. Do a search on the Internet and you will find several articles debating possible repercussions. Just FYI.
ronbravo. do you speak to me?
Alex
I think Ronbravo talks about a license issue common with those services
that when you use the service you grant them the rights to also use the
images without needing to get a permission from you – the uploader and
creator of the work.
I am not sure if Facebook has that clause – might be worth to look into.
duncan
can you stop your silly trolling?
Thank you very much.
i think thats not right i read the user license.second thing is every image on my site is my artwork and i got the rights to show it.next is read the license- there is a big missunderstandig- i got the full rights on everything i post on facebook – §1 but thanks for advice i will check all in detail
cool no problem
it can be true that you remain the rights.
but a lot of photo online services actually have a clausal
that when you post the work for a public they get the right
to recycle the work for free.
I think that is what he was pointing out.
Hmmmm…decent work. But I’m not a fan of Facebook as a place to truly display your work. The portfolio site should strengthen your work not make it cheap. Facebook is sort of cheap. You also shouldn’t need “Likes” for your portfolio pieces. This should be only your best work and no doubt every piece should be equally liked, otherwise leave it out. I wouldn’t hire someone if all they had was FB.
i dont think so nate, but ok. thanks for your opinion. i do not want to advertise facebook, but all big players use it, why? its not cheap its a clever way to reach 500mio people world wide. If you got your own Website its good. But you only reach the people, wich knowing your site. If you got a critical mass all happen alone on facebook.thats my opinion.
I have n’t said anything to you cekuhnen!
I can’t shake the feeling that this is just some sort of facebook-ad.
‘..there is no better platform than Facebook.’
Makes it sound like as if there was no professional alternative.
To make a point in terms of your profile as an artist i doubt it’S the best way to present your work in between 498 million lousy facebook pages.
I’d prefer a dedicated place side by side with other works of qualified artists.
As far as i know the facebook ‘Statement of rights and responsibilities’ includes the option for facebook to still use it for their purposes tho it remains your IP.
I dug up the latest version and it reads as follows:
“For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.”
This ends if you delete your account with facebook obviously, but well then you arent part of the family anymore either.