General Questions about my first reel
polycounter lvl 7
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone would offer me some insight into the following. I am getting close to constructing my first reel and I am a bit confused about the following . I plan on having a number of props, some large some small 2-3 based on photos and 2-3 based concept art , one small highly detailed environment and one armored human character that will demonstrate my understanding of anatomy and it's relation to hard surface forms. My quandry is I have an excellent grasp of materials and rendering in Max but I love Cry Engine materials and Viewport rendering. Am I better off showing my assets rendered out in Max or rendered out of the Engine. Please forgive the naivety of these questions.
Thank you
Av
I was wondering if anyone would offer me some insight into the following. I am getting close to constructing my first reel and I am a bit confused about the following . I plan on having a number of props, some large some small 2-3 based on photos and 2-3 based concept art , one small highly detailed environment and one armored human character that will demonstrate my understanding of anatomy and it's relation to hard surface forms. My quandry is I have an excellent grasp of materials and rendering in Max but I love Cry Engine materials and Viewport rendering. Am I better off showing my assets rendered out in Max or rendered out of the Engine. Please forgive the naivety of these questions.
Thank you
Av
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I've been involved in the hiring process for several artists. Quality of models and textures is what people examine. Specific game engine knowledge is secondary. Even if you were to get a job using CryEngine, there's a good chance the project has deviated from the standard workflow.
No.
Just... no.
Reels can be helpful for stuff like animation, effects, some film-spec work, and flythroughs of levels, but don't bother if you're just going to be doing static stuff like models. Nobody wants to sit through two or three minutes of Flash video embedded on somebody's website that takes forever to load when they could be just looking at some high-quality still images.