Hey Everyone - My name is Jay Nelson and I am a student finishing up at Vancouver Film School in the next couple of weeks. Figured I would drop a link to one of my demo reel pieces. This is a karate kata piece I have been working on. It is 9MB .mov file, so you might just want to download it to your desktop. I am also…
whew! that sucker took a while to load! I hate to say it but you could probably cut down on it's size. as for the animations they're not bad! A little mechanical in a few places, but overall not bad.
I'd probably make it a larger disclaimer somewhere that you aren't taking credit for 'creating' noodle. Just modelling a facsimilie. You don't want people thinking you are trying to take credit for a pretty well known character.
Thanks for the comments! Sorry about the load time... I am trying to get things set up for my new site and for now I just dump it on my school site to atleast host it. http://student.vfs.com/~3d58jay/3d58jay_karatepieceVer2.mov This is the update for my piece. This one is 10 MB, but I will try and cut it down. Further…
Just crits on the karate piece: The beginning is really nice, some nice poses and nice natural motion on the arm when he does that open palm punch. The two roundohouse kicks feel a little under-powered. You could push the poses a bit by lifting the height of the kick a bit. On the second roundhouse, his right arm looks…
Agreed about giving credit on model. Free Model from CGTalk and I will go and give way too many credits for model, instructors, etc. in my reel. Just trying to get feedback on the piece before I "lock it down". Jay
Cool. Thanks for the info.... Will take a look at those areas to tighten up. As for the bag swing timing, I am planning on doing a fade out at the end. Appreciate the info and feel free to check back as I go. Thanks! Jay