Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Week 10 Showreel Development

This week I was looking at examples of various character showreel to get a better understanding of what other people have done in this field and their take on it. As we discussed the different rules that should be applied to a cinematic or camera shots like composition, the rule of third, the golden rule and etc, I went back to review some of the cinematic's that I looked at before and considered to be good to see how these rules have been applied or not.
After reviewing them I realised that some were not as good, the quality was good, but the actual cinematic were lacking more depth and in my opinion some of the shots could have been planned differently.
One of the portfolios I reviewed is on youtube by Victor Hernandez a character artist.
The quality of the work was amazing, because he shows examples of organic sculpting, knowledge of anatomy and the combination of mechanical and hard- surface modelling as you can see in the image above. He also shows examples of natural poses and dynamic posing for characters. However, one of the things that his cinematic is lacking is specific camera shots for each character that he shows like repeating the same shot more than once or showing the same part of the character mutiple times, starting shot with the character in the middle of the screen.

Here are a few examples of the shot. The dynamic pose of the character help the eye to move around the figure, but I think that if some of the shots were altered slightly it could have benefited the overall look a lot more.
I have posted link on some other portfolios that I have looked at which I believe are better, but that is only because of the nature of there showreel. In Pedro Cabeleira's showreel you can see a great break down of his work, which gives you an understanding of how he went about creating some of the characters.
In Ran Manolov showreel there are some shots that could be altered, but he gives a breakdown example of his work and includes some nice static shots of some characters in which you can see the rule of third being applied quite well in his Don Quixote character.
Here are the link to both showreels and I have added one more I looked at, so have a look and judge for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkN7rp5NJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp0uM8HIu9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYpn2Tn5pM

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