FREE CHECKLIST
What Studios Look For in an Unreal Environment Portfolio
The 30-point checklist I’d walk through with you before you send your portfolio to a studio. Run your work through it, find the gaps, and fix them before a recruiter finds them first.
- The 8-second test: how to order, trim, and lead your portfolio so the first thing a recruiter sees is your best work
- The craft checks: composition, lighting, materials, and modeling, with the specific things hiring leads notice (texel density, tiling breakup, bevels, believable scale)
- How to present a project: beauty shots, breakdowns, wireframes, material sheets, and a flythrough, laid out cleanly on ArtStation
- The technical and applying checks: using Nanite and Lumen on purpose, keeping a clean project, and tailoring your portfolio to each studio
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From Dustin Tinkler. I taught video game art and environment design at Full Sail University for 13 years, working with 5,000+ students, and I build production environments in Unreal, including work on Star Wars: Ahsoka.
