Student showreel
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Hi !
I'm a French 3d student looking for criticisms and advices on my showreel.
In fact this is my first showreel and I have spend many hours to do this.
Because i'm going to apply very soon for a 6 months internship, i would not have time to change many things on my showreel, but i will keep your advices and criticisms in my mind for my next showreel.
Here is the link :
Thanks in advance
I'm a French 3d student looking for criticisms and advices on my showreel.
In fact this is my first showreel and I have spend many hours to do this.
Because i'm going to apply very soon for a 6 months internship, i would not have time to change many things on my showreel, but i will keep your advices and criticisms in my mind for my next showreel.
Here is the link :
Thanks in advance
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You have characters, weapons and environments on your showreel, you should pick a specialization and master it, right now all the models are not of a high quality, the light sabre is super high poly and has a normal map and the other materials are not that pretty. The tunnel scene has potential but the materials are a bit boring at the moment, it could use some more fancy set dressing, look at post apocalyptic scenes and games for inspiration.
Good luck!
EDIT: And don't lose motivation after some harsh feedback! Do some tutorials and you will improve
- Put your contact details at the very first page somewhere unobtrusive, minor gripe,
- ("The Survivor" and "Cartoon Warrior") Skip the characters. They feel unfinished and a bit flat, lacking anatomy and structure. Unless your goal right this minute is to become a character artist, dump them. They are lowering the overall quality of your reel.
- ("The Blacksmith") Your very 1st piece (and thus, first impression) is an untextured stylized house. I'd highly recommend you either finish it or don't put it in your reel right now, it gives off a bad impression. My suggestion would be to finish it, the modeling looks strong and if you could get the materials and style in a high quality, it would be a big +
- ("Cave") Confusing presentation w/ the still images. Especially since the entire scene is basically a very narrow corridor and a brick wall. You could either re-do the scene to be a bit less clautstrophobic and add something extra to bump the quality, or drop it.
- ("The Abandoned Tunnel") Cool concept. If you push the materials and texturing on this it and redo the lackluster lighting it could turn into something really nice!
- ("The Old Lightsaber") As mentioned above this is super high poly for a realtime videogame asset. Reduce the polycount and tweak the materials a bit, right now the material definition does not really read "old lightsaber" to me imo
- ("HK G36" and "Jeep Willys") Both decent modeling and texture wise but neither feels standout.
Overall: good presentation on things, just that some of the things themselves feel lackluster or unfinished (or, to be more precise, everything feels a bit "first texture pass-y").My feedback would be that you seem to lack focus right now, and that you might need to have a think about what you want to actually try to apply your time for improving instead of trying to be a bit of everything (and ending up doing OK all over the place).
If you want to be an environment artist, then double down on that and start eliminating every piece that does not fit that vision. If you want to be a weapon or vehicle artist, then focus on that. Your reel right now comes of as a mish-mash of homework and assignments, ending up feeling like you don't quite know what you want to be great at yet.
Don't give up! You've shown some solid modeling skills and tried a bit of everything, now it's time to sit down and focus on that one thing you really want to do!
I completely understand what you are saying to me, and this is what I think too.
I will remove "cave" scene. I will also try to texture the blacksmith and reduce the number of polygons of the light saber.
And you are completely right, I've tried to do many different thing but now I really need to specialize myself in environments.
I have one more question. In fact, my school is not a technical or artistic school. It's more a school for people who want to be project manager. So can you tell me how much I am less competent than other video game student ? I am having trouble to visualize this...
Thanks again !