Chapter 9

Portfolio and Interview

Portfolio

If you’ve been through the whole book, you’ve created some images and learned how to render them, so you’ve got yourself a portfolio, right? Wrong! The first rule about putting a portfolio together is that the work must be your own. I’ve put this in emphasized type, because it is the single most important rule when sending off your portfolio and applying for a job.

It’s okay to show your friends and family all the great renders that you’ve created by working through this book, but if you’re going to send work off to a professional reviewer, you’ll have to throw it all out and start again, from scratch—sorry! The main reasons for this are as follows:

Although you technically completed the projects ...

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