Character TD work on a Demo reel

[dstripinis]

Do an animation of the controls being moved about. Playblast this.

Do renders of how the skin flexes and folds and bulges correctly.

Do screen captures of UI's you've built and the control networks you've constructed.

Give detailed breakdowns of what each thing on the reel is. What exactly did you do.

And when you do the interview, be prepared to be hit with VERY technical questions.

[loked]

There is a video clip of a troll rig, that basically showcases the entire rig. Watch that and you'll get a nice idea of how to showcase rigging work. it belongs to one of the guys that worked on the rigging 101 cd, not Goosh, but the other guy. One of the things that I would do is actually render out muscle systems or close ups of folds and bulges. This just makes is clearer and more appealing than just straight playblasts. Obviously for showcasing your controls and stuff you need to do playblasts. You can even go from a wire frame, to a hardware textured, to a rendered muscle system, to a complete final thing. These little process clips always work well!!

Good Luck:thumbsup:

later:wavey:
loked

[goosh]

That would be Lluis :)

www.lluisllobera.com

Goosh

[MikeRhone]

Javier: Thanks for the great links. Great examples of what Im trying to show off as well. You can let Mike know that his DEMOREEL.mpg is not downloadable. If he ever get it back up Ide love to see it.

Thanks for all the suggestions peeps. I'm not quite at the "fantastic TD range". I can do decent character set-ups, but I haven't gotten plumbs deep into MEL just yet. I have a couple more things I want to figure out how to do, then Ill put a TD portion on my reel.

Mike

[MDuffy]

Some of the better TD demo reels I've seen will show a rig in action, and then freeze frame it. Then over the frozen image they'll overlay an arrow or a highlight, and some text that tells basically what they did or describes an aspect of the rig. If you have several things being shown off in one rig, list them one at a time. This makes it MUCH easier to evaluate a reel rather than going between a printed shot list that has the info and the tape itself. Just keep in mind that TV resolution is crap, so you'll have to make your print terse and legible.

Also it doesn't hurt to include some printed script samples along with your demo tape. Some of the good TD demo reels I've seen have come with a VHS tape and a booklet (normal sized paper that had been 3-hole punched and placed in a nice folder). In the booklet they will show a screen capture of what was on the demo tape, and give a little more detail about what they did, possibly with script/equation snipits. Be sure to keep this part as terse as possible as well so it doesn't take long to read it.

Avoid putting your stuff on CD because it is annoying to review, but if you want you can put your website with samples on your resume and the reviewer might check it out. Just make sure your demo and resume are complete, and don't REQUIRE anyone to go to your website.


Hope this helps,
Michael Duffy
mduffy@ionet.net

[goosh]

Originally posted by Rhonedog
Javier: Thanks for the great links. Great examples of what Im trying to show off as well. You can let Mike know that his DEMOREEL.mpg is not downloadable. If he ever get it back up Ide love to see it.
Mike

Hmmnn... I'll ask him..

G

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