10 Tips for Creating a Successful Animation Showreel
Your showreel is the first thing about you that a prospective employer will see.
- Choose your music wisely. Your choice of music should reflect your style of animation.
- Include some lip-synching, and ensure that the entire face is alive while the character is speaking
- Try to avoid typical characters such as hard core super heroes and robots. Create a new, unique personality with each character.
- Keep it short. Anything from 50 seconds to one minute 30 seconds. Humans get bored and distracted easily.
- Create an interesting introduction and title sequence. Try to keep these similar in style, to “bookend” your showreel.
- Include your contact details in your showreel. Name, location, phone number, website and email address is usually more than enough.
- In your credits, give the names of the programs you utilized to create the showreel
- If you’d like to show off your skills in areas other than animation, find ways to creatively display your models, textures, armatures and rendering techniques
- Your showreel is the first thing about you that a prospective employer will see. Pretend that you are introducing yourself to the employer through your showreel, and try add some of your own personality to it.
- Give your prospective employer easy access to your reel. Phone ahead and ask how they’d prefer to view it. A small version sent as an attachment with an email? A video embedded on your site?
YouTube
? Would they prefer a DVD copy for their records? Make sure that you have all these options available before contacting a company.
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its very helpful for me
i kind of get restless while modeling , can u suggest how to keep focused and not let boredome and restlessness hinder me?
that totally depends of u . if u really feel uneasy than take a break & when u feel well jst return back with a bang & start ur thing again. And the most important thing to stay focussed is interest./ Take as much interest as u can , I hope this will work.
Happy Animating 
nice advice thanks
we are undergoing in recruitment process for animator artist,compositing artist,lightening & rendering artist,rigging artist,fx artist -minimum 1years exp.
intrested please send your demoreel (not original) to studiowork21@rediffmail.com
location-chennai,mumbai,kolkatta,delhi,hydrabad.
three months training should be provided
salary range from 18000-75000 according to experience.
last date-28/april/2010
