For your site for a portfolio and a demo reel. its your choice of what you want to do... We cant tell you what to model, only that make sure it is your best work. In the beginning it will be mostly school work, but look around you for inspiration, its human nature to covet what we see everyday.
Find objects you ignore everyday and visualise them. Look at them and imagine them as primitives and how you would go about creating it.
Put your best work in your final portfolio and try to keep out school work as it wont be your best. Work on as much as you can handle, but deal with only 1 project at a time and complete it. Lots of guys here will have projects that lie unfinished on their Hard Drives and Network Drives.
Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
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Winner SM VFX Challenge 1
3rd Place SM SteamPunk Challenge (May 2007)