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.