CGTalk - Animation reel '09

JayHandle

09-04-2009, 07:17 PM

Hey Everybody, How ya doin? For those of you who read the comments instead of just going directly to the link to see the video, you're Awesome! Who cares what everyone else said. That's what you are, Awesome! anyways, back to my reel. If you do watch it please leave a comment telling me what you think. Forget about my feelings, Honesty is key, so let your critic minds fly. Here's the link.

http://www.vimeo.com/4959342

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnAA9zDyX4

Hope you enjoy. Thanks

InDyJones12

09-05-2009, 04:06 AM

Hey Jessie,
Watching your reel it was hard for me to guage what you are specializing in? it may benifit to label yourself in expertise, like character animator, character rigger, or generalist. Mostly why i found it hard to guage this is because you have a lot of animated segments but then some intervals of random ogre facial animation that look like your showing off a rig youv'e made. if you did then great! it fits in nicely! overall for a reel your looking to put your best stuff forward, and gradually digress. Your reel currently has a lot of unrendered scenes in it that i would advise rendering even a single pass would help, all i could stare at were the eye lines that all your characters possessed. lol. and your "kim possible" animation looked like it needed some better timing, it looked like it was in slow motion the whole time, i do understand that there was a segment of slow motion intentional (which worked out quite well) but i would play with some timing excercises like the "bouncing ball" or a character jump.
hope this helps!

Indy

JayHandle

09-05-2009, 08:14 PM

Sorry I guess i forgot to add that, Im in to Animation, but mostly character animation. I do other things like rigging and fx thou. I couldn't really get a rendered version of it out because my comp is not really capable of rendering things out pretty fast. It will take like 3 months to render out one scene if it is able to render it at all, and since i have little to no money at the moment, a new comp is out of the question. The kim possible is actually my first animation I did. It looks slow because I was trying to fit it in with the music. Not this one but the one that i have for the actually video itself. So yea the kim possible was more of a learning process to help me with animation in general. The next reel I do will have rendered scenes instead of the rough drafts. Thanks for your comment, and honesty. :)

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