I really couldn’t describe the work of Jul & Mat, two freel­ance dir­ect­ors from France, bet­ter then themselves:

“Work­ing with cut up paste­board, glued together with After Effects, we’re about return­ing to primary mater­i­als and redis­cov­er­ing “slow. Anim­ated toys and crumpled paper, chan­ging faces, chan­ging clothes, all in improb­able set­tings, a mix of real­ity and post-production, of sim­pli­city and tech­niques. Our videos are for shar­ing, are access­ible to every­one and go bey­ond any lan­guage barrier.”

Their showreel is a rare chance to see mod­ern motion graph­ics almost entirely done with ana­logue tools.

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i-reel 2009 showreel

09
Jun
2010

Some­times it’s good to do just one thing incred­ibly well. i-reel, a motion-design stu­dio in Paris, is highly spe­cial­ized on technology-visualization for mar­ket­ing pur­poses, and they are true experts at it. If you ever wanted to know how to really show off com­plex mech­an­ical objects in a 3D-space you don’t want to miss this showreel.

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Dstrukt 2008 showreel

05
Jun
2010

Enough with the cutesy-artsy showreels! Dstrukt takes his view­ers to the dark side in a dis­turb­ing realm of explos­ive and evoc­at­ive imagery. Chris­topher Hewitt from Lon­don shows not only great crafts­man­ship but fant­astic dir­ec­tion and my only wish is that it was longer.

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Jeff Deson’s 2009 showreel is really spe­cial. While it looks very low-fi on first glance it actu­ally con­tains some highly elab­or­ate effects. But even more inspir­ing is the great humor and the cre­ativ­ity per­meat­ing the whole reel. The fact that Jeff is from Lux­em­bourg might have to do some­thing with it. I won­der if there are any other showreels out there from this small European country. I can only highly recom­mend this one if you want to at least have a little chuckle.

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Julien Taillez is a motion-designer and art-director from Paris, France. While noth­ing in his 2010 showreel struck me as par­tic­u­larly out­stand­ing it is the over­all fidel­ity and atten­tion to detail that makes it spe­cial. It’s this kind of crafts­man­ship that sets pro­fes­sion­als apart. It also makes this showreel a pleas­ure to watch.

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Return­ing to best-of-the-industry work, here is Fraser Davidson’s 2009 showreel. Fraser is a senior anim­ator and designer at Main­frame, Lon­don cre­at­ing TV adverts, music videos and chan­nel brand­ing. His cli­ents include high-profile brands like Sony, MTV, BBC, Nike & Guinness.

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Julien Wid­mer is an art dir­ector from Paris, France. His work focuses on com­mer­cials, music-videos and everything heavy on beauty-shots and motion-graphics. His showreel is full of cre­at­ive and vibrant con­tent and shows great over­all professionalism.

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Ziul Reel V10

29
Apr
2010

Mar­cel Ziul releases his brand new showreel and shows how it’s done. With a vast col­lec­tion of high-profile cli­ents he obvi­ously had no prob­lem find­ing impress­ive foot­age. I per­son­ally think this is one of the best showreels I’ve seen this year, it cer­tainly sets the bar pretty high.
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