Geoffrey GODET 2012 showreel

Char­ac­ter anim­a­tion lifts the spir­its and Geof­frey Godet has a nice showreel to prove this point. It’s short and fun, take a look!

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 Guilherme Ferreirinha reel 2012

After all the epic pro­jects in our recent posts it’s nice to see a showreel so full of cute­ness like this one from Guil­herme Fer­reir­inha. Hand-animated stor­ies and char­ac­ters are just too charm­ing and the choice of soundtrack fits the images quite nicely. It would also seem we have far too few showreels from Brazil and South Amer­ica in our col­lec­tion, I’ll have to look into that.

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Shop Around strikes again! They seem to have an end­less sup­ply of extremely tal­en­ted artists and Shotopop’s showreel drives this point home with beau­ti­ful motion-graphics and anim­a­tions.
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Here we have another artist from France who really knows his craft. Laurent Cler­mont seems to be skilled at any kind of char­ac­ter anim­a­tion; from anim­ated car­toons in the best tra­di­tion of Pixar, through funny clips à la South Park up to video game com­mer­cials for Nin­tendo. He is cap­able of adding char­ac­ter to lit­er­ally any­thing, be it objects, body parts, food or even fin­ger­prints. It’s no won­der he recently got hired by Brokendoll stu­dios in Stock­holm as a director. You can watch his 2010 showreel over and over and be enter­tained, it’s one of our all time favourites.

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When I get sick of the hyper-clean, ever-exciting worlds of con­sumer­ist com­mer­cial videos I need some­thing dif­fer­ent to get the clogged cre­at­ive arter­ies flow­ing again. Thank­fully Emil Good­man from Hun­gary provides some fresh per­spect­ive with his cre­at­ive and slighty dis­turb­ing visu­als. It’s one of those showreels that sticks in the back of your head for a while.

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We con­nect tra­di­tion and mod­ern­ity! This slo­gan used by many con­ser­vat­ive politi­cians is put into prac­tice in an artistic way in this 2009 showreel by Lois van Baarle from Utrecht. She shows us amaz­ing hand drawn anim­a­tions jazzed up by the subtle use of CGI. It’s cer­tainly more refresh­ing than empty polit­ical talk.

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Sparkle* Reel 2010

31
Aug
2010

This showreel from anim­a­tion & effects stu­dio Sparkle* fea­tures some inter­est­ing fluid and particle sim­u­la­tion works. While not everything in this reel is high end the sims are worth watch­ing and there is obvi­ous poten­tial for great­ness if the cir­cum­stances are right. And by cir­cum­stances I mean budgets.

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We covered Shop Around and Vol­s­tok before, but some artists have indi­vidual showreels worth see­ing. Kris­toff Luyckx does not only have a bizarre name, his works are quite “inter­est­ing”, too.

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Volstok showreel 2010

30
Jul
2010

Vol­s­tok is a small anim­a­tion stu­dio from Bel­gium. Extreme cute­ness coupled with dark and dis­turb­ing humour is their trade­mark. They are best known for “De Mon­sters”, a series of mini-clips about the adven­tures of bizarre mon­sters in the real world.

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The Meind­bender showreel is a nice change from all the motion-graphics and VFX we usu­ally see. This Swedish stu­dio focuses solely on char­ac­ter anim­a­tion and their single-mindedness pays off big: their works con­tain tons of char­ac­ter and emo­tion, they are truly among the best I have ever seen in this field.

Inter­est­ing fact:  what looks like clay­ma­tion in this reel is actu­ally CGI, which in itself is quite impressive.

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