3 Years after their first demo reel was released, Vagalume Animation Studios has released a new reel that clearly demonstrates they are masters of their art. I don’t know what it is about demo reels in general, but I love watching them. Well, at least the good ones like the one above. The bad ones? Not so much. But still, whether good or bad, you can learn from both. What to do in your reel, and what not to do. Vagalume, you’re doing it right.
Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to feature student demo reels on my site in order to help promote them and hopefully get them hired someday. Why do that when I am still trying to promote myself in order to get hired? Because I am a good guy and that’s just how I roll. If I can help a struggling game art student by posting their character, environment, animation of VFX reel on my site to help spread their work on the web, I’ll do that. Sounds like a plan to me, I need to get the ball rolling on that.
If you’re interested, please email me or send me a message on Twitter. This is for a blog post in the future, so I’ll start mentioning it now as I prepare this student demo reel article. I’ll post more updates about this as the time gets closer, maybe even a forum post on Polycount.
For now, it’s a 1 week road trip for me! See ya So Cal!
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