This weeks Professional Practice class focused around the making, and presentation of showreels. First of all we joined the class with an example of an animation showreel we found and thought was very well edited and presented.
The showreel I found was from an artist/animator called Michelle Cheng (username Lemoncholy). Her winter 2021 showreel is intriguing to me all throughout the video. It starts with showcasing her contact details, and a beautiful visual of opening the door to a bathroom, in black negative space. During the showreel she showcases finished animations, sketch animations, cinematography skills, and colouring. At the end, the tail of the character swings by and reveals her contact details again, showing great editing skills also.
Her contact details are shown clear and neat within the video which makes it look professional. She has also kept between the 30-60 second length of a showreel, in which she presents many different kinds of work in this limited time. The music is very chill and not a distraction at all to what is being shown. I think this is a great example of an animation showreel, and I hope to achieve this level someday.
Source
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSku43Ciye6rdl23J3mTGw
Next in this class, we were given an activity to edit a 30 second showreel of our tutors animation work. We got an introduction to Premiere Pro, where we would be editing this showreel, and started the activity during class.
I looked through my tutors work and thought his 3D animation, modelling, lighting, and compositing of the adverts and character animation he did were interesting to make into a short reel.
I used the provided music and collected each clip I wanted to present, and organised them into suitable places that would transition well, etc. At the end of Alec’s animation of the pea in the Lurkpak advert, I paired it with the Im Drink advert when they both presented the colour green. I also did a similar thing, where I paired the Freeview advert with his the Property pal advert, because they both took place in an outside/town space.
I had a bit of trouble getting to the 30 second limit, as I kept going over 2 minutes with the amount of clips I wanted to use. I had to take out most of the clips, and keep the ones I thought looked best. I also quickly made sure the clips played well with the beat of the music, as that is also a good skill to make your showreel look interesting.
Finally, I was happy with how it looked and exported the video. Here is the result.