Character Animation Showreels

Here I will explore some more specific showreels for the industry sectors.

First up is Animation, here are a few showreels with varying student work that I think work well in showcasing their work:

Here is a showreel by Alaa Aldeen Afifah which has some really nice character animation with some great body mechanics. The clips are all very short as to not bore the audience and express a great variety of skills from up close facial animation to general full shot body movement. 

Another by Daniel Meitin who is a professional animator working in the industry including some top companies like disney. Here is his character animation reel that has some great expressive and fluid body motions. Another good thing to note is his clear labelling at the top of each clip with his individual responsibilities, something that is essential for when an employer is viewing your reel.

Here is a fantastic example of a creature animation showreel by Alex Yaremchuk. Mostly game animation however still useful to see as it gives a varied consensus. Another point to pick up on is the professional animation reels feature a lot of animations with only simple plain backdrops so that the attention can solely be put on the animation and nothing else.

Here is a pure body mechanics animation showreel by Tim Sormin. This is another showreel that again features a lot of simple backgrounds with normal texture-less boxes and obstacles so that they don't detract from the animation. It also has a nice clear and concise label at the bottom of every clip similar to Daniel Meitin's work however this tells us what project it was instead.