What did I want out of my career at that time? To stop doing short form work and move into long-form narrative storytelling. This Demo Reel is a look backwards, not an Attractor of the work I wanted for my future. But this Demo Reel wasn’t getting me the work I wanted. My 2001 Demo Reel is about my past body of work-which, for me, was a fatal mistakeĭon’t get me wrong, I’m proud of the work I did, of my clients and their end-clients. Avid Symphony and Smoke were my strong points and this Reel was relatively successful getting me hired for broadcast work.īut it was utter failure because it emphasized where I had come from – not where I wanted to go. At the time I was shopping that reel around to the big New York City post-production houses as a freelance Finisher. Normally I’d call that a mistake but it’s not. One Reel is for a digital compositor, the other is for a short-form editor. Here’s my Demo Reel from 2001: Watch it and ask yourself, “What type of talent are you hiring, based on this Reel?” What mistakes do I see with that Demo Reel?įirst – it feels like two different Reels in one. Let’s start by examining a Demo Reel that did its job getting me work… only it was the wrong type of work! I’ll talk about how it was designed, show you the version I threw away, discuss why I threw it away and some of decisions I made for the final Reel.
#DIGITAL COMPOSITOR REEL SERIES#
In Part 2 of this series I’ll share my latest Demo Reel, released in October 2015. Who are you creating the Demo Reel for? Specifically?.What are the ‘genres’ of Demo Reels and which should you choose to create?.
#DIGITAL COMPOSITOR REEL HOW TO#
Homepage image: The Goddess, Claudia Luehl’s Best of Term Award-winning stylised 3D character.įull disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon.Tutorials / How to Build a Color Grading Demo Reel / How to Build A Color Correction Demo Reel Series Read more about Gnomon’s training courses on the school’s website See more amazing student art work on Gnomon’s Best of Term Awards page With so much amazing art, it’s unfair to pick individual highlights, so grab a coffee and dive in for yourself. In many cases, you can catch a glimpse of how the art was created, with timelapses, model turntables and animation breakdowns revealing the hard work that went into the final renders. It is followed by over seven minutes of digital art ranging in style from the photorealistic to the fantastic, in fields including visual effects, animation, game development, and character and environment design. The reel kicks off with at atmospheric animation from matte painter and CG generalist Devon Rush: a previous Grand Prize winner at Gnomon’s Best of Term Awards. See VFX, animation, environments and 3D characters from some of the world’s best young digital artists The video provides a seven-minute round-up of some of the world’s best student art: Gnomon has been voted overall school of the year three times by leading international digital art awards body The Rookies. Gnomon has released its 2022 showreel, showcasing the best work created by students at the leading CG school in fields ranging from VFX and game development to environment art and character design.
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