I just wrapped up my final term at Vancouver Film School, and this is my finished modeling reel. All visuals are my work unless specifically noted otherwise. Special thanks to my classmates for giving me ample opportunities to work on a variety of projects. It was an incredible learning experience, and a lot of fun.
Man, if my modeling reel looked like that after graduating from TAFE in Aust I’d be a happy camper haha.
Good work I’m sure you’ll go far. BTW you the same eldee over at CGSociety?
Thanks!
Yes, we are the same eldee. eldee.s is my doppelgänger 
Why is it that xsi and lightwave works not often are as good as maya or max? is it the artists behind them, or the program restrictions? Cause I find xsi and lightwave far more modeling friendly, somewhat between zbrush and max, with the great move tool soft selection kinda tools they have.
Remarkable reel, and a very impressive resume.
Best wishes for your further career.
Paul.
Great use of smoke. I never thought of adding that to a reel. The lighting is sweet.
A suggestion, your guy looks off the way he is standing. The shoulders look broken. Have a friend pose for you and take a picture. You’ll see the problem.
The demo reel looks good. The t-rex looks amazing, some nice detail. What about other characters? Watching your reel I was waiting for the character stuff, but never saw it. I didn’t see any realistic character models like you see in the zbrush gallery. You might want to add a model of a realistic guy to your reel.
It’s nice that you have some animation in your reel but what about models?
Some great work here, a promising show-reel… you’ll do well! 
Great work man!
Thanks everybody for the comments! Glad to have your support
Thanks for the tip! I’m actually making a condensed cut of my reel, so I will definitely take another look at the pose.
I didn’t see any realistic character models like you see in the zbrush gallery. You might want to add a model of a realistic guy to your reel.
That’s actually at the top of my to-do list! I specifically avoided a human character on my reel because rendering hair and skin is a nightmare, and I knew I was going to be doing smoke which would only exacerbate the problem in the short amount of time I had to get everything done. But now that I have my own time-line I plan on doing a few creature concepts and definitely a realistic human or two.
Thanks again for the comments and suggestions!
Some people indicated that my site was having some issues loading, so I made a few changes on the back-end that hopefully fixed it. Let me know if anybody has any trouble viewing it, and as always I’m open to comments or suggestions!
hey… my t-rex showed up on the news here! they were doing a segment on district 9 and wandered by my classmate luke’s station, where he was animating the T-rex for his VFX reel!
Either way, pretty cool:
http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/ind…S9wa_3huw M4RF
nice reel, the 1st part i like the music because it from metal gear series. like your t-rex but for me the rex’s legs look like the v-rex from peter jackson’s king kong, which is also very nice.
Funny you mentioned that, because I watched King Kong about 5 times while I was working on this project. In fact the robot itself was originally rigged and I had a proxy animation that was influenced by King Kong… the robot is designed to be very gorilla-like. My friend luke and I always joked about doing a king kong vs T-rex remake using our two characters
good eye! and thanks for the comments!
Nice work! Love the enviroment work you did on your demo reel.
One thing tho your base sculpt you used looks a hell alot alike to the one base created on the workshop of “Character 3D Modeling for Next-Gen Games with Richard Smith”. ( http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/523/)
Still great work keep it up;)
Im not to shure if i like moving smoke on a no motion camera flight
but the reel has a very nice quality congratulations.
How did you go about using fume fx(if u did)
Did uyou import the whole xsi animation into max placed the smokes
and rendered a seperate pass?
it does appear quite similar, but I can assure you it was built from scratch (to be honest, you can see several anatomical and proportional errors in mine if you look at it long enough) 
I did, however, use several images as reference when doing the anatomy and choosing the final proportions, and a lot of richard smith’s excellent work is in my inspiration folder. So good eye on you as well 
Yeah, that was a concern of mine while I was making it- so I attempted to tie it into the environment more by adding environment elements that moved as well, such as newspaper blowing in the wind, and subtle swaying of the powerlines. I get where you’re coming from for sure, it would’ve been cool if I had time to have even a small amount of idle animation on these guys.
regarding the workflow- everything was built and assembled in XSI for rendering, but I exported pieces of the set out in chunks for Max as obj, just to be use as a simulation proxy. the cameras were exported with animation using FBX, and max takes those just fine. any geometry with animation was pointcached and brought in separately with the pointcache animation. Smoke was rendered out on its own pass without any geometry, and composited in nuke.