I created a showreel of animation I’ve done over the years to show off my animation skills. It features 2d traditional animation, 2d digital animation and 3d animation.
The clips that I chose for my showcase are the ones that I either thought had the best movements that I animated or ones that I felt were the most visually appealing through direction and composition. I also included an unfinished animation that I was doing over the summer just to have some variety of the clips I used. I started and ended the showreel with clips from my witch group animation project, as I felt that was some of my best work, both through movement and aesthetically. I also included the most recent animation that I had done while I was working on the showreel, the animation that I had done of a scene from Dragons Forever. I was happy to include that one too, as I feel that has some of the best movement that I have animated.
For the audio of the showreel, I used the instrumental of a song called “No Tomorrow” by Non Phixion. I originally had the animation start off as soon as the song starts, but I edited it so that there is a title card for my showreel to start the video off and as soon as the song hits its first beat after the intro, a movement that I’ve animated went along with the beat. That made the song go along with beats of the animation. I started the showreel off with no audio, but the song fit so well when I included it. I also included an ending title card to give information about the animation programs used and the music used.
A problem I had with the showreel is the issue with the framerate shown in my animations. While the animation is shown in the preview, there is always a problem with the speed of the animation and there are anyways missing frames unless I give the animations a lower framerate than the ones they actually have. I usually render the animations at 12fps, but when I set them at 12fps in Premiere Pro, the animation is always too fast and has missing frames. Fortunately, I found through the sequence settings, the framerate had been set to only 4fps. Afterwards I set it to 24fps and the animations’ speed was normal.
I am happy with how the showreel came out. Not only was the showreel a great way to show off my animation skills and how they progressed over the years, I believe it also shows off my editing skills.