Portfolio/Demo Reel questions?

[Eezo]

Hi there, I am about to finish uni and try and get a job doing interior renders. I want to create some good work over the next few weeks to include in a demo reel and was just wondering what sort of things I should attempt?

 

I was thinking a bathroom scene, living room, office and maybe a bar but these all seem a little standard, cant you give me any advice as to what an employer might want to see from me?

[JamesTaylor]

personally i'd suggest a couple of exteriors maybe one residential (town house / semi detached etc.) and one commercial (hi rise tower / 5 or 6 storey building)

 

add an interior or two and you've covered a wider range of standard type renders. Maybe for an internal try doing an open plan kitchen living space then you'll be able to get a few renders from the one scene.

[Eezo]

Thanks for the reply. I do have an old Spanish villa I could re-visit and improve upon and I could certainly do some other exterior scenes. The kitchen is a good idea as well.

 

Can I ask why you suggest exterior scenes, would an employer rather see these than interiors?

[JamesTaylor]

i just think that you'll have a better all round folio if you include them against just having interior scenes.

 

depending on where you send your CV & folio they will do more than just interiors and showing you can do both is going to be best. I think you'll find that exterior illustrations are the bread and butter of what most firms do, it certainly has been from my experience, but it all depends on what the client wants!!

[Eezo]

Thanks for the advice. I am guessing most firms are based in London, what’s the best way to go about getting a job, through an agency I would imagine?

 

It's all going to be a bit of a learning curve for me I think.

[kuneho]

It would be good to show stuff that is relevant to what the company does. I for example showed some drawings of people during an interview with an architectural firm, they shut me down and told me I am better off working for animation for another firm, not theirs. Ouch.

 

Some school work is ok. 2D or 3D hand drawings might help also in showing how you developed a certain CG project.

[Eezo]

Thanks kuneho that’s really useful advice, I didn’t no if anyone would want to see 2d/hand drawn work in a portfolio but I do have some development drawings of a 50's style diner that I never got around to modelling, perhaps I will now go back to it and finish it. That way I can show the drawings and they might be more useful than me showing a load of irrelevant life drawings.

 

 

Keep the advice coming I need all I can get, it’s very hard for someone whose come strait from uni to get a job and I have absolutely no experience with interviews (for a reel job anyway) so feel free to empart any wisdom upon me.