Nathaniel Winckler presents his work.
I just finished my latest Demo Reel for submitting to studios. I worked with incredible teams of artists and used Blender in each film shown.If you have any need for someone of my ability (cough Gooseberry cough :) ), I would be more than willing to talk!
Just so you know a little about me, I am a recent graduate from Asbury University with a degree in Media Communications. During this time, I focused most of my energy on 3D animation. I directed and created most of the visuals for my 4 animated films (in order of production), Twirl, Lola & Her Dog, Charged, and Le Spark which have each won awards at various film festivals and been screened around the world. I am a CG generalist and compositor so I can handle an entire pipeline of work if needed. However, I also excel at building teams of people. For the past 3 years, I’ve carefully crafted an incredible team that all know what it’s like to work on an animation.
You can check me out at www.natewinck.com, follow @natewinck on Twitter, or simply email me at [email protected].
4 Comments
I liked it!
I can see you put a lot of work into this but I must say this is not an interesting demo reel.
The music and sound does not match well and my biggest concern is the repetitive nature of showing a short animation and then the compositing steps.
All you tell me is that you know the software and not what you can do as an artists. Showing the compositing aspect once or twice is sufficient - showing it more makes it feel like a space filler.
I as a recruiter rather would like to see more of your work or facets of an artist.
Thanks for the critique! I really appreciate it!
I agree it's repetitive; I struggled to find a balance on how much of my films to show. From your perspective, how would you suggest I change the reel to better reflect myself as an artist, rather than a software user? Should I pick only a few shots from my films and spend more time on them—breaking them down into their individual components? Or is there something else that I could do that I'm completely overlooking?
One issue that I keep running into has to do with being a generalist. How do I effectively show all that I can do (which is pretty much the entire pipeline) within a short reel?
Thanks again!
I think it is fine to show in one or two sections the steps
but think about your demo reel as a story you tell. new artists often want to proof that they have skill. a great animated movie already shows skill. In my work I do not show that I can use the software because without out knowing it I could not do what I am creating anyway.
I might replace the music with something that fits better. I see that you try to generate excitement with the score but it collides with the few voices you put in.
The CG overlays I think are fine, but I am not sure if you need to freeze the video. I found that I hardly got anything from the animated story because you stop the video too much.
I think the CG explanations can be shown just while playing the animation as well.
Maybe the movie starts in the mesh texture and then through out the video you show other compositing and also the animation rig.
I would also go more with the original sound track of Le Spark. It fits sound wise also the visuals.
I would maybe take the best cuts out of the film condense it and then see where it might be useful to show the CG overlays.