Demo Reel Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp-HMh-toHo
3D animation reel. 4 min in length Too long (4 minutes!) with overly loud music and multiple songs and audio clips..Shows off the artist's skills in every step of the 3D process.and her prowess over inserting 3D into video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18k0-04bMY
2D/3D animation/animation director/animation supervisor demo reel. 6:10 in length, but with all the big name projects he's done it's understandable. Music flows with the piece and moves it through the entire piece. The parts for the supervisor parts are actual clips for the projects he's worked on. Overall it needs to have the sequences cut to in length drastically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjkxrDUF9_w
3D animation reel. 1:37 in length. Character animation reel. Music doesn't overpower work and good use of characters w/in the animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1hVLQGcINw
3D animation reel of medical animations. 1:46 in length. Music works well with footage and footage flows nicely from one part to the next.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSvujm630ds
After Effects & flash demo reel. 2 min long. Music goes great with the footage. Footage moves quickly and fluidly from one part to another.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nk6XLdJdJs
2D animation demo reel. 1:46 in length. Music works well with it aqnd the clips flow well from one to the next.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFpApt_xF5w&NR=1
2D animation demo reel. Music works well with the fluid art style and the clips flow togeather extremely well. Features stills, character designs and sketches as well. Ends abruptly almost as if it isn't finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB618k5ybM4

Video/sound/cinematography editing demo reel/ 3:11 in length. Music was annoying and the sound effects were weird and didn't fit what was being shown with no context available. Editing was funky and featured sever hue/saturation/contrast/brightness/shapness shifts with shaky camera work of extreme close-ups that made no sense, especially in the order they were shown.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXqHq-P-GA

Video editing reel. 2:26 in length. Appears to be partial trailers for movies. Sound and video quality is horrible and sound seems to be off by few miliseconds at points. No lead in or out of footage and no mention of who or what company it's for except for in video description.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-JhQbMuUU
Video editing reel. 3:37 in length, Clips taken from artist's video projects. Lead in of clips to a title card with pictures of what will be shown below. Intro music is cheesy and just sits there, not adding or subtracting from the lead in clips. The clips are well edited and music set to the clips go great with the footage.