Yes it's ok, in general. 3D animators have traditionally used other people's rigs and models for a long time. Just make sure to credit them. At the end of the reel is fine. My personal preference when seeing an animator's reel is to see the models rendered without textures. Just single-color shaded models. That way the…
I am a student applying for college, and while working and rendering out some of the animation work I have available it occurred to me I've used quite a few models from various game franchises. This raised a red flag to me in my head. Now, I've seen people use models from copyrighted content in their demo reels before, but…