Demo Reel of Eric Schulist

[eschulist]

Any feedback at all? Did I spoil everything with the picture or something?

[leecobra]

Hi, well i like it, trouble is i am not good enough to be able to give you any real crits im afraid like a professional user can.

[ffourier]

well, you demoreel is a little bit strange. I explain myself. You have some really cool stuffs, but why putting that on the very begining ? I think your first work should not be in your reel. The first thing I will put would be the car (really nice render !!) or may be the "green environement". I don't know the right order but I really think that one of this work should be at the begining and the other at the end.

I'm not an expert, I've also just finished my demoreel. But here are my advices. Your best work in the begining and what you consider as your second best work in the end. That's the secret :)

Good luck man !

[eschulist]

Thanks guys!

I just thought the Limpix concept was fairly cool and the style was executed well so I put it first. It also included alittle bit of every software package I'm proficient in. I agree though as the car is my favorite piece.

A few tips I got from others I showed it to are to add a different color to the "Startled Rotoscope" shot or get the finished piece from the production once its done. Someone suggested a better end to the car shot so I'm in the process of animating it so it revs then drives off into the darkness. This will include some particle work for smoke, lights turning on, and the water on the road to ripple when the tires drive through them so it'll take me awhile to get it finished. Heres a playblast of the animation I did. TEST (http://www.eschulist.com/video/koenigsegg_test.mov)

[vekien]

You're the first user I seen on here who has a decent site lol.

Anyway the reel was good, I can see what he ment by the order of things.

I figured something of a build up would be good, and changing the music, it was to hard on the ears and not very good for this style.

I remember watching a piece of 3D reel, I cant remember who it was by but it was perfect, and had an Alplinemusic on it and it was perfect for the type of 3d it was.

I could probably make some for you, I'm a music composer for games, that would fit perfectly, if you had the reel blend in with some Premiere or Vegas effects that also would be neat.

The car render you've done is EXTREMELY amazing, I love it. The floor looked inredably real and the car mounted on top perfectly well without to much artifacial anti realistic effects. (In one of the water puddles, you can see the car back reflect. I've never seen that)

I think a good close up of that from the font and panning out then around would of been nice but I bet with a render as such like that, a small few frames would take an extremly long time to render to AVI. Especially since you've done it in HQ.

I'm not good at 3D myself but 1 thing I noticed was that when the lime is dropped in the glass on the clip after the car, the amount of water it splashes out is more than what is shown missing when it steadies out. It's like it refilled itself invisability. But im sure that can be easily fixed when you've learned more about water effects and such, they're hard to do I know!

Very well done, and good job. Love full clips.

[tanicdesigns]

good work i like the effects. how where the alphas done.

[eschulist]

Thanks for your comments guys

Vekien:
I searched through quite a few royalty free type music sites (Freeplaymusic.com) was my main one and couldn’t really find anything that fit. So I ended up just using a song I liked by Gnarls Barkley and found the karaoke version so the track would be mainly instrumental. If you have some ideas for music that would accentuate the work even more send me an email or pm and I'd love to discuss it further.

tanicdesigns:
The alphas were created using roto shapes or greenscreen footage. The "Startled Shot" which is 100% roto was made using around 30-40 individual small pieces then maxed together. To render them out for demo reel purposes rather than seeing the original plate with an empty background I just took the alpha channel and used a reorder node (changes a color channel into a different one) so in this case A into RGB, so it was renderable all by itself.

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