[Demo Reel] - Ryan James Smith

Ryan Smith

Just finished my reel

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I am currently in search of a job, if anyone knows anyone who could use my skill set.

Xoliul

vimeo embed doesn't work ?
Great stuff btw! You really should find something soon with your level of skill!

Ryan Smith

fixed ^_^

jordan.kocon

What's the name of that song? I dig it. As for crits I am no FX expert, but I think your stuff looks really good, congrats on working on/shipping such a gorgeous game! I think you should re-position the information for each shot. It's in really small writing at the bottom of the screen, and I felt by the time I was done reading the text, you had almost moved onto the next shot. It was hard to read the text at the bottom and take in what was playing. Maybe larger text, possibly a little off the bottom?

Really great work though!

JGcount

Really convincing, I think. Good luck with the job hunting; not sure you need it.

jimmypopali

Love it!

ScottP

Ryan you are a pimp of a technical artist and effects artist. I love your works man!

beancube

cool! great skills there to benefit any studio.

Jeff Parrott

Awesome stuff Ryan! I'll be shocked if you're not some place awesome by GDC.

Clark Coots

Awesome job Ryan. I love the cloth tear shader, very smart!

Laughing_Bun

Your a beast

gsokol

You have a pretty solid body of work there.

I digged the song too. Sounds like a remix to one of the Tron 2 songs.

Good luck with the job search, hope you land somewhere awesome.

MorganFX

Very cool! Awesome work

Envart

Reel kicks ass. Loving that cloth material!

Saiainoshi

We're currently looking for an fx animator on WoW. I took a gander at your reel, would you happen to have any stylized work to show?

Tadao215

very impressive :thumbup:

Swizzle

Shit's fucking sexy. The cloth material is absolutely badass. I wouldn't have thought to combine vertex painting and shader-based mesh displacement for effects like that. Brilliant!

(Wish I could help on the job front, alas.)

megalmn2000

Nice stuffs! I like the presentation and the music!

chrisradsby

Heck yes, awesome stuff. Cloth material looking sweet! Would love to see the node-setup for that one !

Really wish I could help you on the job front, how about moving to Sweden eh?

BARDLER

My only suggesting would be the editing. The small text at the bottom takes my eyes off of your work for almost half of the short clip you are showing. Maybe think about reworking it to read the text and then see the video.

rasmus

Nice stuff as always, next top-dollah position imminent I say! Agree on slightly distracting info texts, I found myself pausing to read before playing, so maybe put the info up before each segment instead of overlayed?

Fromhelltoeast

Holy Shit! Really diggin your work there.

leilei

If you work at Humanhead up in Wisconsin there'll be two of you





DISCLAIMER: I am not involved with Humanhead

Kuki

megalmn2000 wrote: »

Nice stuffs! I like the presentation and the music!

Cool stuff

Kuki

chrisradsby wrote: »

Heck yes, awesome stuff. Cloth material looking sweet! Would love to see the node-setup for that one !

Really wish I could help you on the job front, how about moving to Sweden eh?

Yea interesting use of blending, and mask texture, good job on that one

Gannon

Fantastic work! I love the cloth painting. Very inspiring.

MeintevdS

Your stuff never fails to impress me, good luck finding a job!

POFFINGTON

I always say I don't want to do VFX, then I watch your demos! Amazing work, you should be proud!

fearian

As inspirational as ever. Loved the cloth/wind paint idea. Keep on blowing minds man!

Alberto Rdrgz

cool stuff! love the cloth shader.

RAL

Awesome stuff Ryan! Really inspiring stuff, thanks for sharing. If we need any more fx artists I'll be sure to let them know about you. Good luck man.

raul

Ryan, you crazy white boy! Awesome stuff man!

Ryan Smith

Hey Guys,

Thanks so much for the kind words, it really means a lot to me that you guys like this stuff. It makes me want to push even harder now.

To address the text issue... i agree with it being a little difficult to read. I went through 4 iterations of the demo reel before i finalized this one, and each time the critique i got from the MD guys was that it was too long. So after trimming out 2 minutes of unnecessary stuff, I arrived at this iteration. With that being said, If I were to put the text up before each shot for about 3 - 5 seconds, it would have increased the reel by around 1 and a half to 2 minutes... and i didn't want to have a 5 minute reel, and risk someone skipping ahead because of the length and missing something important.

The text at the bottom was a compromise, because I realized if someone wanted to read more about the shot, they could always pause it and read it and resume play. However this might be a bit distracting, it was required to keep the demo under 4 minutes, and it was necessary to point out exactly what was going on in the shot, since some of the stuff may be confusing to recruiters/hiring managers.

With that being said, if the reel was shorter in nature, i totally would have used that method, but i had to make the tough compromise and do it that way instead.

Anyways, thanks again for all the kind words guys. Much appreciated.

Ryan

Saman

It came out great, virtuosic. I think that you could always upscale the video and be able to read the text(unless you have a really tiny monitor) but the rest of the stuff looks really nice. Good luck with the job hunting.

mathes

I dig it, nice reel man.

Sliterin

Man, when I see your work and realize that YOU haven't work, I'm afraid in future I would have problem with it, because your stuff is serious great.