This makes me sad due to the fact that if an employer was to walk by and glance at the reel, they might think "Hmm. That John Doe has some talent with animation. Maybe we'll hire him as an animator. He could probably do a lot better work with a real application" instead of "A free program is capable of this? Wow. There's some impressive talent and art in that reel. All with a free program…maybe we should consider it for our workflow". A few of the animations would certainly impress most people but others weren't of high enough quality to be on the reel.

The lack of stills was disheartening. I knew to expect it yet it still took me by surprise at the end when I was thinking about some of the spectacular images that people wouldn't get to see because they're tucked away in the Blender.org Gallery or at the BA forums.

Perhaps next year a 50/50 split should be considered (time wise) or at least 75/25. Some of the animations could've been left as stills and had the same impact - if not better.

The music was great and the editing job as well. The content just wasn't as high quality as anticipated.

Don't get us [us that are critiquing] wrong, we appreciate the fact that you guys have taken the time to make a reel for Blender and Siggraph compiled of works from the community. You do have our gratitude.

Another thing that has to be considered as well: submissions. Maybe there weren't enough high quality submissions and certainly scouring the web finding the best ones and contacting their authors would no doubt take more time than the deadline allowed. So there's a large portion of the responsibility that falls to the community to submit their best works for the reel to help improve the quality of it. Maybe you guys did pick the best submissions. It'd be nice if we could vote on which ones made it in but democracy isn't known for making deadlines either.

Congrats if you read this whole thing. Thanks to everyone that had anything to do with the reel. Not trying to be a prick just trying to offer some useful insights/opinions.

downloading the reel now :D

I strongly agree with you. In my opinion this was a wrong decission to leave out any stills, when there are just not enough quality animations to make up a decent demo reel. This demo reel has some highlights like ED and in particular "Phantom of the Hirayaman". Those animations are just amazing. I actualy liked the last one even more. I actualy was more than surprised about the quality.

Also the product animations and commercials are great. That fits in perfectly.

Unfortunately missing sound makes some of the movies not easy to understand. The alien one has a sound clue at the end that the alien is still alive. Without sound the audience cannot know that and thus will not experience the fun of that movie.

but some other animations are very poor compared to those shooting stars. Frommy experience it is rather better to have less but good or mixed (anim/still) to ensure the same level of quality.

i would rather have liked a clear statement from the beginning telling that only movies will be accepted.

Siggraph Demoreel Released at BlenderNationSIGGRAPH2006用のBlender動画が公開されましたね。去年（2005年版）を見て 度肝を抜かれましたが 今年は 全体的な動画…