Demo Reel

[proton]

Love the animation work! Where can we see more!

[CGmonkey]

Yeah Awesome REEL!1 :bounce:

[DarkSun]

Very nice work buddy :))
Keep the good work :) I wish you the best :bounce:

[John Lee]

Proton - Thank sman for your Kind comment. It means alot coming from you!

CG monkey - Hey man thanks i can't believe we didn't meet up in at 3d festival!

:)

[CGmonkey]

Yeah :annoyed:

Ah well hope to see you next year then.. ;)

[WesComan]

Yay! :beer:

Way to go John! Great work there :)

[xtrm3d]

bravo !!!!!!!!!11:beer: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[cgwolf]

Hey John I think you have a great demo reel there. It should get you work as a character animator and/or modeler. Looks good.

[r2d3]

great work really inspiring:thumbsup:

[wrosado]

Really cool! good acting!

thanks for sharing!

[BladeFX]

Great work :bounce:

[miketche]

Wow!:applause: Really great job. Nice work.:eek:

[karl]

Hey just wanna say great animation you got there, Didnt realise it was you who did the devil yoda. Thats my fav.

I have been living in lincoln for 5 years but am at Portsmouth Uni studying 3D computer animation. I will have my showreel finished over the next few days so I will post up mine aswell.

U gonna be in Lincoln over the summer coz me and my mate wanna do some sort of games project designing, moddeling and animating characters etc, so if u want you could take part.....bit more work for portfolio.

Let me know,

All the best getting a job

Cheers

[McSpirit]

only comment is that the lip sync when the green guy says whats the matrix isnt that good :( any way Great work. i would give you an A or maybe a B+

[Xform]

Really great work, I think you'll get that grade you was hoping for!!:)

[John Lee]

WES - hey thanks man learnt alot form you guys!

xtrm3d - if only i was as good a modeler as you my work would be so much better. Anyway's hows singapore?

cgwolf - a friend of mine a really talented artist called Balazs Kiss helped he with all the modeling and texturing for the backgrounds. He did a very good job. Thanks man

r2d3 - Inspiring I am? Thanks at least i'm good for something hehehe :) LoL

wrosado - Thanks for taking the time to watch it


BladeFX - Cheers :beer:

miketche - Thanks it took me 9 mouth to get this far LOL

karl - Hey man Lincoln is very nice! It's beautiful, but iam in HuLL LOL. I can't wait to see your reel! About the games looks like i will be doing that for real now!! hehehe ;)

McSpirit - Thanks for your mark. And i agree with you about the lip sync. I gonna do some more very soon!

[Brettzies]

:thumbsup: nice! when can we see the final race? the shots from that are looking really cool and fun. i especially like the helicopter gadget stuff. very cool.

[John Lee]

Brett - How's it going buddy? the film should be finished in a few mouth?( he says ). Now that i got a job i will be short of time to do my own stuff? hehehe. But i'm glad you like the chopper shot. It's my money shot!

Xform - I Hope so there's a car on the line for this! hehehe

[Mangled Poly]

really awesome work!

[Animator395]

Very nice! Im getting ready to graduate myself in a few months and am working on a demo as well. I think I'll keep yours on my desktop as an example of what a GREAT demo real looks like!

[ninjacore]

wow, exellent work. makes me feel like poop :D

i wanna express some intrest in the course your doing. you see, I'm a 3rd year student at abertay uni in dundee doing "computer arts" and we've done 3d animation, but no one has got as far as what you've done. this is becuase our course is a total "jack of all trades" shebang where we cover 2D/3D animation, modelling, video, audio, flash programming, compositing and all this conceptual art theory stuff.

right now i'm deciding wether to do 4rth year or not, or try and start building a decent folio. but another idea is maybe doing a course totally focused on 3d animation, which is where i want to head. thing is all these courses are in england so it would take a monkey load to persuade me to do it. do u have any recomendations for your course or similar ones?

i'm just really intrested to know what other computer art courses are like so i can compare to shitty abertay..

but yeah, great work man!! :thumbsup: ( your also the same age as me, so i'm really jealous :eek: )

[TANGOMAN]

Cool work!!:applause: ,there are excelent animations


If I was director.. I will hire you now!!:thumbsup:

I ca'nt wait to see more..

[FloydBishop]

Wow John, this is really nice stuff. I like the physical animation stuff the best, where the two characters are running, jumping, swinging, etc.

I would probably take out the lip sync where he says "What is the Matrix", as it it not as solid as everything else on your reel.

Employers tend to judge you by the worst stuff on your reel, not your best. The lip sync bit takes away from the rest of the reel, in my opinion. Everything else is so solid, you don't need the lipsync anyhow.

[John Lee]

Mangled Poly - Hey thanks man. There's a film to follow so will give you a shout when done? :)


Animator395 - Hey man if you want a good reel just take a look around on this Forum. There are so many Talented artist! BUt thanks for saying that. What grade you hoping for?


ninjacore - This is a tricky one. Where's your preference? Uk or US or asia? Hmm.. If you want to specialise in character animation. One of the best schools is Calarts In the US. People from Pixar Hire directly out of there. BUt it's $$$$$$$$$$$$ Are you rich?? i think it's like $22k a year? Somehitng like that? I was thinking of going there But not sure? hehe :) There isn't any where in the Uk that specialises in character animation i don't think. Our course is like the one you talked about . you have to be able to do just about everything . LoL Hope that helps. Here is out site for the uni www.lincoln.ac.uk


TANGOMAN - Really thanks ma. hehe Like i said there will be a film on it's way. and 4 min short just on the race.

Floyd Bishop - Hey Floyd WOW this means alot coming from a ex blue sky animator. Thanks man. Yeah i agree with the lip sync . it was just a quick test i did with bones to see if i could get similar mouth shapes. Did blue sky use Morphs or bones in the face? If so how many shapes were there and were they vowels?

Thanks Guys

John Lee

[Carl Hawkins]

Jhon im sorry but i hate you, irealy do your added to my list of people who are just to good that i have to hate......lol:D ....only joking excelent work looking forward to seeing more my freind....:beer:

And im sure with your work your heading for a 1st no doubt.

Have faith

[NightFox]

Nice reel. Just that when I downloaded the MPEG version of your demo reel, it was extremely choppy and kept messing up.

Yet the DIVX version looks sweet and clean

EDIT: Oh nevermind.. heh it was RealONE player that was having trouble with the animation. Windows Media Player did just fine with both versions of the reel. :-)

[John Lee]

Hey Night fox

That's really wired cause the Divx version plays choppy on my windows media player. But the mepg file players really smooth for me.

Thanks anyways man

John Lee

[Willax]

John, very nicely done. You should go far with your talent . Good luck in your pursuits.

[Animator395]

John-

I look around here all the time man and honestly very well done character animation! As far as grade, my instructor grades harder than the devil so Im not looking for that so much as I am having a good product to sell myself. I would give you and A most definately, my insturctor would critique you for an hour and a half though and give you a C-B.

[Hexodam]

you obviosly have a big talent for animation, when are you going to make a short? :D

[John Lee]

Hexodam - Well actually i'm in the middle of making a short now LoL for my final year project. So it should be finished within the next few mouth I hope. It's just so hard doing everything your self. you know what i mean I've had to get extra help! But all together 9 mouth in total


Animator395 - thank you man. Jesus your tutor must be a master animator? :) I can't wait to see your show reel! :)

Willax - Cheers Buddy

[Hexodam]

I know how that feels :P

looking forward seeing it

[ninjacore]

yo john. i was meaning for just a uk course, seeing as i live in the uk;)

haha, i think i'd be out of my league if i did a fancy $15billion a year course in the good ol US.

i was just simply intrested to know exactly what you do there, just to comapare to my course... heres the link to my uni so u may scoff at its poopness. i do the BA Computer ARtswww.abertay-dundee.ac.uk/

by the way, what year are you in?
:thumbsup:

[ed209]

Congrats on the front page! Good to see all the hard work is paying off. Now finish that short already! ;)

[Aose]

:bounce:


very very good!!

[AVTPro]

I DL'd your "race" animation sometime about while it was in comp.

You have some of the most fun stuff. Even without the render, I could not help but to watch the whole thing just to see the out come.

I really like some of the dynamics. You perpective is great.

Keep up the good work. :buttrock: :applause: :thumbsup:

[John Lee]

Ed209 - Hey Andrew you know me working night and day to get this baby finished! Getting sick of it now! LoL

Aose - Hey nice your from China, I'm actually chinese. Some nice stuff coming from China I believe?

AVTPro - Do you already have a verision of my short? Yeah the unrendered scene that i have put together don't look that bad? As in it doesn't take your eye off the story it's self. the Sound and music editing is proving to be an ass but what can i say i'm and animator! In my school we have to fo f***ing everything!

Cheers Guy i never thought i'd get so much positive ffedback! This forum Rocks!

John

[Animator395]

.thank you man. Jesus your tutor must be a master animator? I can't wait to see your show reel!


LOL-

never seen any of her work. Just one of teaches that grades hard. Don't get too excited my work won't be done for another 6 months and I can only hope to be half as good

[John Lee]

Hey man

That what al the best animators say LoL. BTW your quote is SOOOooooo TRUE!!!
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:thumbsup:

JOhn

[demo38]

GREAT JOB! A pro at work.

[katon]

very nice. it is easy to wacth and keeps you watching. great stuff

[John Lee]

4 stars??? thanks guys I never had 4 stars before?

ninjacore - Sorry for the late reply. But my course does not specialise in character animation. It's just what i personally chose to get into. We have to do everything on the course like, story, sound, modeling, textureing editing, compositing , you know it's a very general. In the first year you do a few traditional animation excercies like the bouncing ball and stuff. What do you want to specialise in???

Thanks

John

I'm in the final year. We have a degree show if your interested in coming??

[Rodi]

John just PM me to reply here, he said i should say that the demo reel is the best thing i had ever seen, it makes me horny every time i see it, just the thought of that robot getting it on with the green guy is enough to give me a hot flush.

But on a serious note theres some clasically good animated stuff on here, he's an animator at heart and body.

good job john...

[ninjacore]

hey dont worry john:)

damn your a friggin talented mofo, if you can do all that animation and still be able to do the other course stuff. sheesh. :D

i did my first character animation ( walk cycle, plus interaction with a box and a ball, and composited) in about 5 hours. which is rediculous. but its the nature of our course, to do everything rushed:thumbsdow

i guess my speciallity is modelling. i'm making my first car at the moment, and it looks pretty cool. but i still have much to learn and i have loads of other things i want to model. but i also want to start animating loadsa stuff as well. i think my 4rth year project will be based on some kind of 3d animation. who knows yet. aaahh, so much to learnn.....

degree show? that would be cool, but i doubt i'd be able too. i have my end of year presentations lined up, so i dunno.:cool:

[ward]

Hi John,

I managed to download it right now. Very good Mate! Congratulations!

It was definitely a good idea to show some flat shaded animations as well.
the music also fit quite well, So good work Mate.

See you at the Leaf :)), or sooner to drink a bier in a pub somewhere half way between Manchester and Bradford :))

bye

Bal

[John Lee]

Rodi LOL man you son of a gun. Thanks man! can't wait to see yuour film it's coming along nicey buddy!

[Rodi]

You son of a mum!!! Im trying hard to live up 2 your quality of animation, letz c if i get it right.

[sinbad]

Wow John you're going to be famous!!

Ok I work as your learning adviser at the school (it pays the bills for now), but most of all I'm a good friend. Its so cool to see you getting the recognition you deserve, you have always had a great attitude and immense talent. You deserve everything you get. See you at Pixar one day buddy, me, you & Dal!

Paul Sinclair

[John Lee]

ninjacore - Well if your interrsted it's on the 30th of May and we have one in Lonodn as well in June if you fancy it there will be some cool films mostly cg i think?

Ward - If it wasn't for you then the overall look of the film would look crap. So i owe you big time! how about a :beer:


G.Rodi - You sure will my firend! Practise makes perfect

sinbad - It's friends like you that keep me on my feet and also give me the strength an determination to push on !

Thanks

[TANGOMAN]

Wow man! you had a lot of feedback that's greate:scream:

Ok,let's critisize>

as someone said here you should take that lipsync ;cause all the rest it's quality animations..

The texture hand on the green man is not looking good to me(I think it´s has a mirror,but that´s not really important cause you looking for animator job:hmm:

Man,I think you have great stuff in your web about acting,why you did´nt put it!? ..I think if you put it on the end after the credits could be fun:bounce:

Bye,

John Wilks

[A Morley]

Excellent show reel. I think the choice of music works great. Can't wait to see the full film as well. Also well done on the job you deserve it for all the work you've been putting in.:beer: :beer:

[Az0r]

whats the music track(s) called? :)

great reel indeed!

[John Lee]

hey Az0r


The sound track is called Leave home bye Chemicail Bros. BTW i have an uncle who works in Notts. Have you heard of a company called Climax sudios?

JOhn

Thanks Tango and A morley for you kind s world. And i will take those crits and correct them if i got time

[Carl Hawkins]

BTW I also forgot to mention what software you using at the mo??

[John Lee]

I'm using Lightwave and messiah! 2 very useful tools! But like every one says it's not the tools it's the artist!

:)

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