[Demoreel] Fwd: videos

Thu Aug 16 12:58:15 CEST 2012

No worries, Ton. Thanks for sharing. Will take this on board for next time.

On Thursday, 16 August 2012, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> 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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>
> 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
> > >>> > Bart and Blendernation as soon as it is live.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > http://youtu.be/P2xzn6bEN_U
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