[Demoreel] videos

Thu Aug 16 11:54:45 CEST 2012

Hi all,

After watching the reel many times at the booth, I have quite some remarks though... I had no time before Siggraph for a fair review, sorry it's too late now. I have great respect for people volunteering to help out on jobs, which makes it difficult to be honest with fair criticism. :)

The reel has many strong clips, but also choices with a confusing messages (tests, turntables, tutorials, work from popular people, etc). It will work well for 'the community' of Blender fans and a non-professional audience, but not for people in the CG industry... for that it has too many sub-standard choices. 

The reel probably tries to show an average overview (some turntables, some stills, some ads, some film, some tutorials) but the choices made makes it not very strong - and even uninteresting at times.

Here's some points;

- I wouldn't choose stills in the reel at all. The choice does not invoke interest (Nobody knows it's from an upcoming feature film).

- Did you see that the renders are the only part that really look crisp and HD? The videos compared look a bit fuzzy and overcompressed.

- The blocking in the spaceship turntable is very distracting, the render errors in the turntable dino too, also Alex Penner's video looks quite badly compressed.

- I really miss quality character animation.

- What's the Samsung commercial doing in it... 

- A nice spectacular shot is in the end (city scape with alien stuff). That's getting cut before you can see what it is. Why was not more 'film vfx' added? 

- The explosion of the church is so-so... I also don't understand the road sign, nor the jellybean. These are not good examples for reels.

- Credits should be put in a small font on every submission as caption in the bottom.

- The blender logo is too large, and used 'off brand' (see logo guidelines). Make a headline using a title (like Blender Showreel 2012) in a nice font, and use a logo small underneath somewhere.

- The font with 'showreel 2012' doesn't fit. The end credit choice of font also looks sloppy. The credit for the editor of the reel is too prominent. The makers of the videos deserve much much more attention.

- An official blender.org film can go to the Blender Foundation youtube channel btw. 

I'm sorry to rant on so much, but at siggraph the reel didn't work well. Not many people spent time on watching it entirely (the demoloop attracted more viewers). Of course this is a spoiled audience of CG professionals; but that was our target group).

Regards,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
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On 16 Aug, 2012, at 4:22, Reynante Martinez wrote:

> Thank you, Paul!
> 
> Looking forward to collaborating with you guys again
> some time in the future.
> 
> Happy blending!
> 
> :)
> 
> -Reyn
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:10 AM, paul caggegi <flawedprefect at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, everyone, I'm making it public! Put it on your blogs, get the word
> out. If there are any errors, or in anyone needs a credit in the end
> board, I'm sure they'll let me know.
> 
> Thanks so much for allowing me to be part of this project. It's been
> such a cool ride.
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 August 2012 10:44, paul caggegi <flawedprefect at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm happy to make it public as soon as you're all happy with the credits. :)
> >
> > I can always revise it later, so I'm also happy to make it public
> > today. Itching to!!
> >
> >
> > On 16 August 2012 10:39, Reynante Martinez <reynantem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Great work, Paul! That's a fantastic reel, indeed.
> >>
> >> Let us know once the public links are updated and
> >> I'll do my share on my sites and personal pages
> >> as well. :)
> >>
> >> -Reyn
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Mike Pan <mike.c.pan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Looks good. I like it!
> >>>
> >>> m
> >>>
> >>> On 2012-08-15, at 4:44 PM, paul caggegi <flawedprefect at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi everyone,
> >>> >
> >>> > I've places the showreel on my youtube channel - unlisted - and able
> >>> > to be viewed in every quality right up to 1080p. Please view and let
> >>> > me know if there are any changes to the credits before I make it
> >>> > public. I have a blog-post ready to go about this, and will contact
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> >>> >
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