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Nathan Vegdahl Reel 2011

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Nathan writes:

Hey guys,
I just finished putting together my 2011 demo reel. I am currently looking for work as a freelancer.

Please take note of the "what I did" box in the lower-left corner of the video. It says what I did on each shot. I did not animate every shot in the reel, for example, so be mindful.

Also, in the shots from Sintel it says that I did rigging. But please note that Angela Guenette (http://www.youtube.com/user/PonderStudios) created all of the facial shapes for the characters in that film.

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About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

22 Comments

  1. Very good work, I wish you the best, you deserve it.
    And, btw, nice way of defining what you have done. Proper behavior to be appreciated.

  2. Hi Nathan, great work but if I were you I'd apply for a job at one of the big animation studio's because it will be very difficult to find work just as a rigger or animator. You need to be able to do modelling, lighting and texturing too as a small CG artist.

    Take care, and I hope to see you at next year's Blender Conference

    • The reel is not just rigging+animation.  It also includes modeling, texturing, lighting, and compositing.  The National Geographic work, for example, is done entirely by me.  Besides which, so far (almost a year now) I've been pretty successful as a freelancer, so apparently it can be done!

      In any case, I'd rather avoid the big studios.  Not saying it will never happen, but I'd like to put it off as long as I can. ;-)

        • Nothing necessarily wrong with them, per se.  I just don't find already well-established businesses very interesting.  I would have loved to work for Pixar back in its early pre-Toy Story days.  But now... dunno.  Not nearly as interesting to me.  Same with the others.

          Again, I'm not saying it will never happen.  But it's not where my passion or aspirations are.  Once I start wanting a stable settled-down life, then perhaps I will look towards the giants if nothing else has come along before then. :-)

  3. Perfect reel!
    Nathan, you are one of the most awesome artists. Hope you will find a good job. If I had the money I would hire you ...
     
    BTW: Cant find this song anywhere :-(

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