Animator portfolio! - need Demo Reel Crits
HA! My second post! And most definitely not my last!
I am on the hunt for a studio job! And I would like some honest critiques of my site and Reel please
www.NicholasMcBride.net
Job hunting in this industry is hard. And any help you guys can throw at me would be great! Tips - advice - suggestions. Places or companies to look into/contact. Recruiting agencies....anything, anything will help
. I have a wealth of passion and idea's for this industry.
If anyone knows of any studios (anywhere) that are hiring Character animators or Generalists please pass my site on! or PM me the contact info!
Linkin Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicholas-mcbride/19/82/841
Email:
nmcbride1337@gmail.com
Thanks
Nich-
I am on the hunt for a studio job! And I would like some honest critiques of my site and Reel please
www.NicholasMcBride.net
Job hunting in this industry is hard. And any help you guys can throw at me would be great! Tips - advice - suggestions. Places or companies to look into/contact. Recruiting agencies....anything, anything will help
. I have a wealth of passion and idea's for this industry.If anyone knows of any studios (anywhere) that are hiring Character animators or Generalists please pass my site on! or PM me the contact info!
Linkin Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicholas-mcbride/19/82/841
Email:
nmcbride1337@gmail.com
Thanks
Nich-
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I don't think that makes a good impression on potential employers.
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@ZacD/Vonklaus - Good suggestions, i'll make it happen.
@Indecom - Games mostly, but I am open to other forms of media.
@ Avast AntiVirus/Safari - That's strange, this is the first time anyone has alerted me about a potential virus, the site has been up for a while now. I dont have Avast or Safari to test it for myself and Trendmicro isnt picking anything up. I am going to look into it though, even if it's a false-positive it is still going to be a problem. Any suggestions on how to go about resolving the issue? I dont know how to identify bad/virus coding in HTML files. Do I just scan the files with an AV like avast, or do I need to look into the coding? I have to say though that many people, friends and family go to my site all the time and no one has said anything. Thank you for the warning.
The sword guy, as Zac said, is hard to read. He just zips around and it's too hard to properly analyze the animation.
The troll, in my opinion, reminded me of Flashdance
He moves like a ballet dancer I think, nicely animated, but there's not enough weight or attitude for someone with his physique.
The silhouette stuff is cool, and your strongest work I think, I just really disliked the almost 'mime' like exaggeration when the dude notices the tree at the end. It almost looks like he's robot dancing for a second.
I'm not an animator so I can't offer much more than that, but to me, it always seems like animators get hooked on Disneys principles and try to force them into their work so much that there's just a lack of realism. That might be great if you wanna work for Pixar, in games however, not so much. Obviously those principles are still massively important, but just to a different extent.
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I don't understand the mechanics of how this happens, there may be something running on your local machine that's writing this into your source files before you upload them. It's also likely your webserver is insecure and the read/write permissions on your .js files are allowing anonymous access, so that bullshit has been remotely inserted into your files.
@Tim Deneau - THANK YOU SO MUCH. super big help, I really appreciate it.
I have located, and deleted the infected JS files. And i have re-uploaded clean ones. Shitty part is that google has flagged my site as containing malicious software. This puts my job hunting for the time being at a complete stand still. Fucking LAME. I have put in a request to google to review the site, so hopefully it will be free and clear soon. In addition i have also contacted the web hosting company that i use and am working on a way to make my site more secure.
What can i do to make my site and its files more secure? I was told that outdated coding can be a risk for hackers, as well as checking for the possibility that my scripts allow uploads. I don't know how to check for these things.....anyone know how to go about doing this ?
the whole script is decrypting itself to then contact a server
Overall nice animation most of my points have been brought up, real nice reel really like the sillouette piece, found the combat 1 quite good but you need to help by making the character and weapon pop more out from the white bg.