Showreel

For my showreel, I started with the idea of wanting to do something than a mere slideshow of artwork as I really don’t think my style is suited to it at all. I ended up deciding, with approval from my tutor, that I would have a cartoon version of myself talking the viewer through my work. Firstly, I wrote a script for the showreel and recording myself speaking the lines in the sound studio. I found a stock song in Logic Pro that I thought fit really well with the theme of my showreel, so I chose to stick with that rather than spending time trying to create my own. Then, I drew up a storyboard of how I wanted my showreel to play out. I figured a theatre setting would be the most fitting for the theme, so I made another horrifically rough storyboard in Flash…:

…before cleaning everything up nicely and animating a few small gestures…:

…then, as with the trailer, taking it into Premier Pro to cut it all together and add the trailer, images and sound clips into their appropriate places and take it into After Effects to add the fancy transitions before calling it done!