Demo Reel: Critique needed 2003

[Zeio]

I think you have a great reel, but PLEASE put the "Porch" short before everything else. It shows off your skills the best and out of all your work, it is the best quality, so it should NOT be at the end of your reel. Some employers may not even make it that far and eject your tape without ever seeing it, and that would be a shame.

Good job, just rework the reel, and perhaps change the music "Wonderboy" out with something that doesn't have any lyrics to interfere with the lip sync/voice acting.

-Zeio

[zaipha]

Thanks for responding. I had my film at the end of the reel because it is so long. I didnt want anyone to get bored and turn it off without seeing the various other elements. I made sure to keep "wonderboy' kinda low and the voices higher. But perhaps it does detract from the sync. It crossed my mind to not have any music there and just start the music after my lip syncs.

Thanks again.

Kim

[Zeio]

Point taken, but even though it is 2 min+ it shows off your modeling, facial animation, character animation, texturing, storytelling etc... the first minute that you currently have there doesn't really show all of these skills.

To be honest, I almost got bored and turned off the reel before the first minute was even finished, and then I noticed that there was a couple minutes more left and "stumbled" upon your short. If an employer is watching this on a tv monitor and doesn't make it to your short, then you aren't getting the credit you deserve.

Just my 2cents

-Zeio

[aazimkhan]

yes...i agree with Zeio about the lentthg of the reel and the placement of your animations.

besides that good stuff....I would suggest to remove the animations from the begening...

start with you poshe short and end it with you models...they look good.

[RedSilas]

Some crits. The lip-sync was off a bit (bump your keys backward 2 keys). Also the animation of the farmer was a little jumpy in places (check out the curve editor) and needed more follow through. That goes for the beginning animation as well.

Over-all nice work and good luck! :D

[gmask]

Like some others have commented it is usally considered good form to put short anaimtions on a reel as a single section.. cutting back and forth is a distraction.

I would also say that you shoudl just leave the drawing sthat are tacked off on the end off the reel.

You could probably cut your reel down to 2.5 minutes.. I would show the first section of the green guy witht he machine gun and then the other where he is lifting the weight and then fighting with the other guy. The rendering on the centipede is a bit sahky so I dunno if you really need to show it.. maybe just show the model..

As for the guy in the porch.. he's pretty good it would be easier to follow the story if it were one segment. I notice alot of surface intersections and his hands never really seem to be sitting on his legs or other hadn to body points of contact.

Remember that a good reel can be very short.. show your very best work and tailor what you show to the type of job you are applying to.. IE if you wish to be character animator then you only need to show animations.. revolves of models is not really important.

[Marcinko]

Great job, definately put the porch scene first.

Marcinko

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