tips for a reely awesome reel

Having a great reel and portfolio are really going to help you with getting jobs in the animation field. Since the person hiring you has probably looked for hours at different reels its important that your reel captures their attention and keeps it, or else they will just skip over it. Only include your best work, the stuff that best highlights your creativity and skills. The best work should be placed throughout the entire video to keep viewers attention, instead of just the beginning. Your work should also flow together with pacing and acting animations being balanced out with each other. They also talk about things you shouldn't do in your reel. Like making a reel longer than 5 mins, or doing too many credits and transitions. It looks like most scenes in reels just cut to the next scene. And include multimedia in your portfolio just to show how you work other tools.

I am planning on going into the animation field and I hope to make a very strong reel. This article was really informative in that. There's a lot of do's and don'ts for making a reel but it's also a lot of pressure to hear that someone could just skip over your reel if it doesn't catch someone else's attention. Even if it looked great to you. It's probably a good idea to have people critique your reel before you give it to a recruiter.

sciency things about avengers

in the video it talks about the science behind iron man's suit, and captain america's shield, and super fast healing abilities by black widow. they say iron man's suit is probably made from nitinol. rather than actual iron or aluminum because those would make the suit too heavy. nitinol makes more sense because its lighter and strong. iron man's arc reactor in his chest relies on an element he created himself using a particle reactor, which is what a lot of scientists today do as well. in captain america's shield, it contains steel and an imaginary material called vibranium. it makes his shield quite strong and able to absorb shock. in both captain america and black widow they share quick healing abilities which could be connected to the white blood cell macrophage. their cells would work much faster than they do in regular humans.

I don't understand a lot of things in this video, I just summarized what was said in the video but I think it's really cool how all this science goes into the avengers movies rather than mostly made up stuff. its more realistic. it would be cool if some of these things could be made in real life too. I don't know much else about the avengers powers than what I've seen in the movie but now I think i'll read up about it.

animating dragons~

creature animating is very complex. in this article it talks about the process of animating the dragons in game of thrones. the team has been animating the dragons for a long time, since the dragons were babies. the rigs have get more and more complex and heavy as the dragons grow. every season they rebuild the dragon rig with new additions like frills, scales and horns. freidmann says the dragon rig has about 400 controls. every scale and spike is able to be animated. they don't have 3 different rigs for the dragons though, they have 1 rig and they're able to change to a different skin when they need to. for reference they examined different animals like bats, flying foxes,  and eagles. since you can't look at a real dragon. unfortunately. they also added some motion to the dragons. they added wrinkles and animated the eyebrows to indicate emotions without having them actually smile or laugh. they didn't want to make them too human like.

creature animating is kind of intimidating to think about. and animating a dragon is so advanced, I was amazed that they work with 400 controls on the dragon rig. and a lot of research goes into creature animating. especially since dragons are mythical they were able to bring it to life and make it look believable. it was easy to animate the movements because dragons resembled bats and birds and used those for reference. it's also easy to mess up and make the animation look awkward when it comes to creatures. you really have to observe movements before you animate things.