What should I animate?? (Demo Reel List) - part 2

You've gone beyond animation exercises and are now ready to work on your demo reel. What should you include? Here's part 2 of my "What to animate?" series. Here is part 1 covering animation exercises (list):

Here's the demo reel topic in text form:

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0:13 What was part 1
0:22 What is part 2
0:36 What is this channel
0:53 Demo Reel Dos and Don'ts
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[jeandenishaas]

Hope this helps with your demo reel plans and what to include!

[beachchickensmedia]

The biggest piece of advice is to create the type of work you want to get paid to do. This is applicable across the board for any industry. In this case of the feature animation industry, if you want to work for Disney, animate in their style (3d flowing movement, with magic and singing). If you want to work for Sony, animate shots that show exaggerated graphic poses with cartoony timing and squash n stretch. If you want to work on Marvel or Star Wars movies in VFX, animate humans and creatures in a hyper realistic mocap style. I could go on and on, but I think this advice trumps all others when it comes to making a shot for a demo reel.

[patrickanimates]

I'm so far from being demo reel ready, but this is great info to keep in mind as I practice. Thanks JD.

[enderperez-lopezanimations]

What a timing J-D! Actually I'm working on my demo reel so is useful for me. So, far i have a basketball shot and a complex parkour shot that I will add to my demo reel in a couple of weeks.

[sotimple]

These "what to animate" videos have been super helpful, thanks for posting this!!
Also, I see that Hilda shirt 👀 I really love that show, I can't believe the last season ended on such a big cliffhanger! Lol

[SomD]

8:16 I remember seeing this animation while back it's incredible fun to watch and really well done ❤️

[mbasterix]

Awesome to see you cant forget how good mentor you were to us. Learnt a lot from you. Thanks

[ChesterSampson]

Thanks for sharing my shot again JD! Great tips as always :D

[vickmure]

Awesome series, just in time, watched all of them in one sitting, and yes I am in the process of building a demo reel. Just completed a workshop at animation mentor. Will follow your guidance sensei and hopefully you will get to see my showreel and share your amazing thoughts. Thank you for the amazing much needed help Sir

[yurignu]

Fantastic breakdown of how to better a Reel! thank you JD

[RoughDonut]

Another great and helpful video ! I can't thank you enough JD!

[kylefemath]

Great video! Took lots of notes, thank you sir!!

[soirema]

Thank you a lot for this, I highly appreciate this <3

[Shka_maru]

Who did the sequence around 16:00 mark? Looks fantastic

[stever]

I'm confused about a piece of your advice. Around 11:50-12:00, you say to not use a "existing performances" to animate to (the George Clooney clip). Isn't this just using reference, which is highly recommended by most animators? Obviously you shouldn't use animation as a reference because you're using another artist's interpretation to animate to, but why wouldn't you consider a live acting clip be acceptable as reference?

[Hoodratpax]

About to graduate and this is so helpful even for a rigger like me 👍 thank you!

[SAS-dijz]

Dear J-D, I'm a huge admirer of your knowledge & highly appreciate your style of teaching. Currently I'm stuck with a confusion for my new game animation demo reel. Would be great if you can answer my question :)
Looking at current market trend & job descriptions, there is a demand on working with mocap for animators. If I use mocap as a base animation clip & add keyframe animation to create a few Parkour/Action sequences, will it get considered as cheating? What is the best practice to follow for game animation demo reels, pure keyframe or mocap mixed animations?
Thanks a ton!

[paulinanunez]

Great video! Currently, a student wishing to apply for internships. Do you think the Dana rig made by Gabriel Salas is not good/unique for demo reel content? I see the same rig pretty often in many other reels. Thanks for the amazing content

[aquaticvfx]

How do you apply this if your just trying to get into college for doing animation

[talonshow]

I want ask you about animation in blender is good or not for make short movies