The reason for the separate reels is because I wanted to get something out “now” that could represent what I do. However, I don’t plan on sending hard copies of just this reel, and then hard copies of the texturing reel. I’m going to combine them once I get the texturing reel done. Personally I don’t like spending time doing all that rendering for reels. I’d much rather be working on producing new models and let still images tell the tale of the model. But I had so many people ask me for a reel I went ahead and did it.
I posted a few posts back where the music came from. It’s a Prince song, called East. It’s a snippet from the actual song, which is like 14 minutes long. I just thought it fit since it had that exotic guitar in the beginning and then the hard riff when I wanted the other characters to kick in. I don’t know if I’ll use it in the final reel, i.e. modeling and texturing, but if it fits the length I will.