Rigging and Modelling Reels

Although I wish to specialise in animation it is also important to showcase my other skills that I have acquired including rigging, modelling and texturing. Therefore in order to do this I need to have separate showreels for both rigging and asset making.

So to start off here are some good examples of Rigging showreels that I have found:



The first being a reel by Matt Schiller featuring a good array of skills from advanced realistic facial rigging with the use of motion capture and then exaggerated toon rigging with squash and stretch attributes. Each clip also features a helpful label describing what exactly is in motion at that particular point for instance 'Layered IK/FK ctrls'.

Here is a good showreel by Evelyn Seng which has an interesting and nice way of interchanging between pieces of work; she shows them one by one but in between features a little animation where the character interacts with the next in line character as if they are all queueing for something. This is a good way of keeping the audience engaged as it can get a little tiresome looking at rigging demo's.

Here is the final in the rigging segment of this post by Khaled Samhan. What I like about this showreel is that similar to the previous is that in between the individual rigging demos he features small animation segments like walk cycles. They are first shown normally and then shown with the controllers attached and rendered, this is a nice way of reinforcing the content of the showreel and what its actually about.

  

Now its time to see some Modelling showreels.

Here is very good show reel by Romain Chauliac featuring some high quality industry standard work. The main thing I like about this portfolio other than the incredible work, is that he teases his most prized work at the beginning by only showing the back of a beautifully lit superman, it is only shown until right at the end. A very good technique that keeps the audience interested and also encourages to watch again as it can be played in a loop.

Here is another reel by Johan Lithvall, which although the quality of work is not quite up to the previous' standards it does however features nice presentation techniques of having a full body turnaround on one side and a close up on the other with a fade between the two. A definite bad point about this showreel however; is that the quality of work is substantially better in the second half than the first. This is a bad idea as the employer will see the first half and probably not watch the rest as they will already have a bad impression of the level of work.

The final reel in this post is by Danu Navarro which is more of a cartoony modelling show reel. I like this reel as it features some dynamic colours that are pleasing to the eye with the models being gold on a grey gradient background with letterbox black edges. He also includes four head poses of the characters before every turn around of which is a nice touch that helps link the show reel together as well as his four bar image at the beginning and end.