CV Research

I had a look at some existing CVs being used by artists or similar jobs. I found these through LinkedIn, Artstation and Pinterest.

I also had a look at the CV of the 3D artist I had looked at for some of the other tasks, Carys Lewis. I think Carys’ CV is a good example for making a CV as it is clean and you can find all oft the information easily due to the good font and bold section titles. The colours on the actual CV are limited, which is something I liked less about it than other ones I looked at, but I think it’s a good design choice due to the coloured models and the geometric design. I think it was incredibly useful to look at her CV as well, because she works in the career area I’m interested in and she is only a junior 3D artist so her experience, while much more than mine, isn’t relied upon too heavily.

I had originally came into the Cv making process with the intention to make my CV with a blue and yellow colour scheme, as it’s a combination I’m fond of, as well as orange and blue. So there is a lot of CV examples there with that colour scheme. I think some of the layouts were too visually reliant for me, with all of the fun symbols and bars, which look really good, but I don’t think it’s as professional. The one based off of a coffee shop menu is too hard to read and find specific information from, as cool as the original concept is.

Layout Sketches

I decided to try laying out my CV roughly and abstractly through sketches, just to get a feel for some of the different designs I was thinking of. This helped me visualise it better and understand what I liked in theory and what actually looked good.

I decided to make a clearer one out of my favorite layout, so that I could get a better idea of where to put the different sections of my CV. I think I  like the layout of it, but if it doesn’t look as good when I actually make it, I will change it.

The CV

I am pretty pleased with the final CV, as I think it looks quite neat and I like the colours. The profile picture will be replaced when I get time to make another one, as I feel like having a drawing of someone looking sort of angry isn’t ideal for a CV – but it was the only artwork I had that I felt looked alright on the CV. Maybe I should’ve changed the colour from yellow, to pink as there’s a lot of pink from the models and the profile picture, but I was really intent on having yellow.

I probably should’ve included a soft skills section as I don’t have much experience, and the about me could’ve included more buzzwords from the gaming industry and modelling jobs.