Yinako Character And Game Demo Reel

[user_deleted]

Hi all,

I just put together a demo reel mainly for character modeling and texturing, please feel free to give me some feed back. Is the content appropriate? speed? appropriate music? and anything else i should improve on?

http://yinako.enjoyuserexperience.com/yina...o\_reel\_2006.mov

quicktime 7 required

thanks,

[e321]

Hi I think your reel is beautiful. I like the music just fine. One thing, the first three characters seem high res for games also the cloth simulations are not something you see in games. Were these like characters for cinematic game intros or posters? Don't get me wrong I love the characters. I was told once on a game job that they hated to see reels and portfolios that were not strictly game or cinematic. Like if your going for the game job go for that. However then I've seen requirements of reels that wanted both high and low res game models for the purpose of normal maps. I'm saying if this is a game reel wouldn't it be better to show the first three characters in low res game versions as well as the beautiful high res versions? Or to make two reels one for video and one for games. If I was personally hiring from a game company I don't think I would have waited the first min. or so for the game stuff to come up, if I was hiring from a cinematic standpoint I would have watched the first min. and wondered why I was then seeing game characters. Then there is the mapping skills on the high res characters but if thats the case you need to put more emphesis on the mapping and less on the character itself. I would show a high res render of the character or a normal map saying like 560,000 polys. then the pretty game character looks just like it at only 890 polys. All of the characters I saw would make great game characters as far as creativity. Hands down I would buy a game if I saw the first woman on the cover. All the women I wouldn't mind seeing on t.v. someday as well . The game character reminded me of Legend of Dragoon a favorite of mine.

[vertii]

nice stuff man, you should go for square enix. great job on the models.

[user_deleted]

hi heres an update on the previous clip, i change the pace to be a little faster and more effects. You think its overall better?

http://yinako.enjoyuserexperience.com/yina...\_reel2\_2006.mov

Shacarah: you right, some places are very specific to what they want to see, while smaller studios just want to see everything you have worked on characters. I have these scenes as video editor files, so I can shuffle them, or take them out, depending what some places maybe looking for.

But overall I think if you show somthing that is some what related to the core stuff your doing, like clothing simulations to be part of the character makes you more appealing candidate. otherwise you will end up showing pretty much the same stuff as people.

actually truth be told, I'm a little embarassed. Most these characters are very old, from yr2000, I just re light them with new renders with fancy stuff like GI/sss/soft lights. as you see topology for first 3 character are not even as good as the game characters. I'm just too lazy to make a purley perfecto character...but I think about it all the time.