Building a Better Animation Reel Tutorial

Is your reel making an impact? Are recruiters impressed with your work, or underwhelmed?

Veteran Animator Tony Grillo shares the secrets to making your student or beginner demo clips look and sound like they were made by a professional.

Building a Better Animation Reel helps you identify the weak spots in your reel, and lays out the path to a more impressive, higher-impact Demo Reel - with professional tips, red flags, and step-by-step instructions to improving your presentation.

• Forge a more thoughtful, impressive edit with pro tips on contextual sequences and transitions
• Master basic Audio Mixing techniques using tools found in most editing software
• Learn how to exploit your strengths, and fix common soft spots found in most beginner reels.
• Avoid amateur traps like Sprinkling, off-beat pacing, and lacklustre titles. Learn how to present Process
• Demonstrations with transitions, side-by-sides or repeated progression.
• Add life to Backgrounds, stills, character turns, as well as screen-captured content
• Take a design-minded pass at Titles and on-screen text
• Jump ahead with technical skills that will improve your editing game, as well as your animation prowess
• Includes step-by-step guides for improving camera, performances and scene work

If you want your reel to reach recruiters - and build some new skills in the process - Building a Better Animation Reel is your guide.

Audio Mixing Boot Camp

Transform Still Art

Present Special Skills

Title Treatment