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Clicked through the first half and had to stop. A few pieces of advise:

  1. Don't waste the users time. I don't care about some fancy loading animation, I care about content. The first portfolio I had already closed before its fancy animation finished.
  2. Don't waste the users mental energy. The third example had me lose interest in the content with the first animation. If you give the user something to read, let them read it; don't throw some random slogan on the screen only to make it disappear again, it's annoying and distracting.
  3. Who even thinks hiding the users mouse cursor could every be a good idea? Needless to say, don't do this, it's infuriating and disorienting. Once again, closed the page without even reading.
  4. Watch the font size. Too small is hard to read, too big is hard to follow and too different makes it harder to go from one text to the other.

With all that said, the fourth portfolio is the only one I somewhat liked. The font size of the text is HUGE, but at least there was only a very short animation after opening the page and it starts out with a face on the screen.