[balakiransingh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0sw418vx1o


Hi friends

I am balakiran singh .This is my animation show reel which i have done during my freelancing. I want to improvise this reel.

Kindly provide the feedback to make my show reel effective.

[kineticjee]

hi there balakiran, enjoyed it actually. i am not at this standard so i was kinda in awe. i wish you success my only critism would make it a bit snappier, the spider man part seems a little mechanical. but like i said i cant even do that yet so i know how complicated it is and you have acheived very good results.

kineticjee

[Yasha]

Hi balakiransingn!
This is a great start to a demo reel, so definitely keep working on it.
A few notes for you:
first of all get rid of the first 5 seconds of logo and disclaimer and just put the disclaimer at the end of the reel.
Then tone down the music so it wont be so in your face all the time.
The walk the skeleton does is a bit strange especially the last step he does before he sits down. So go through it and make sure the character is in balance and has some nice poses at each of the stages of the walk.
When the skeleton is typing you are wasting too much time and people would lose interest and turn off your demo reel (that is not what you want people to do)
Then the camera move when it zooms in on the screen is a bit much, so tone it down or maybe even turn it into a cut.
The piano player shot is really interesting but its kind of off time, so you need to match the arm movements to the music concentrate on getting the left arm to hit a frame or two before the bass notes and then the right arm to move with the treble notes.
You could also get away with only using one camera.
But the most important thing is don't forget to use the shoulders and chest.

Hope that helps!
-Yasha

[balakiransingh]

kineticjee and Yasha Thanks for your comments and compliments. Yasha i am working on the demo again. i will go through the points u suggested me . And thanks once again friends.

[ifriteg]

Nice one bro. Your facial animation is good but you can work on your full body motion. Your lighting and final render could with some improvement too, it could seriously do some amazing wonders for your final movies. Keep it up tho!!

[Sturmhund]

hey man, this is a great demo, just dont forget to implement the animation priniples such as squash and stretch, ease in and ease out, and have a look at your lighting setup. it makes a massive diffrence if your n scene is lit nicely.

[DerekAnnan]

the Ice age dialouge one is probably your best one.

for "Coraline Song" at certain points in time the characters gives the dead stare. this happens when the eyes are placed directly in the center of the eyeball. it makes the character look like a lifeless doll and takes the realism out of the scene.

Smuggler escape seems to be suffering more than the rest. It appears as if the rig was not set up to squash and stretch but one thing you could definitely do is add some weight to the characters steps.

good attempt but you need to do some research on the 12 animation principles and practice more too.

[balakiransingh]

Thank You guys .. i edited the past work . still have some work to do on it


this is my edited show reel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVqgbHEsuM