Making your concept art portfolio

Making a concept art portfolio shows that you can be an idea furnace and that you can give all the information needed to the modeler or later on in the pipeline. So, creating a refined portfolio with the right font or the right distance between the images is a bonus, and not your main focus. It would be a good idea to have a business card showing that you can create a good paginated portfolio, but that's not your main concern.

Now, the first thing to do is to create a little template to apply to all your portfolio pages. In this template, you need to put your name, the year of the portfolio, and your contact information. This is mine:

Figure 10.17 – My portfolio template

Now, to record it as a template, which is really easy to do, we go—as always—to Edit | Register Material, but we now need to click on Template rather than Image.

This will prompt the same register material as always, but this time you can only choose...