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traindog
08-14-2007, 05:10 PM
Hi, I am hoping if you have a spare couple of minutes to check out the first pass of my first showreel.
This is what I could come up with in my “spare time”. Don’t seem to have much of it with a full time job, study and a travelling band. ;)

Please crit and let me know whats good and bad. Thanks!

I am still cleaning up some of the animation (lip sync etc.) But just want some feedback on it so far so I can tweak it.

Also if anyone has any good advice on getting a nice smooth video export for web viewing at a fairly low file size I would be very grateful.

I used flash video for this test and it seems to skip a little bit.

you can see it http://fadedseoul.com/demo/showreel_test.htm
Abazaba
08-14-2007, 07:45 PM
Pretty good first reel. If I were you I would take out the first lip sync. You are re-creating a pixar animation, so everyone who sees it will compare your animation to that. Some of your animation seems a little floaty as well. Like the weight lifting bit, when he drops the wieght. Keep up the good work!
traindog
08-15-2007, 05:54 AM
Thanks alot for your comments...I was thinking the same thing about the first lip sync after I made it...I liked it because there was not much background noise and was a clean track (and i love the movie)..but you do have a good point.
Its great to have new eyes looking at it for me!
traindog
08-15-2007, 07:10 AM
Abazaba, thanks for your comment and for looking at my work.
I agree with you about the Incredibles shot and right now I am chopping the demo down and tweaking some of the animations to give them a bit more flow and life.
thanks again, its helpful to hear advice from others in this field especially now my eyes are tired!
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