Glassworks showing some class

Glassworks is a post production company based out of the U.K. Glasswork designs awesome graphics and animations for a ton of top name brands. Every year Glassworks makes a reel of all their favorite animations that they have made so far. This showreel is absolutely breathtaking!

http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/5252


Glassworks also released a Character Showreel of all the characters they have recently created. All of these characters are so creative. I love the paper towel animation, it shows that it is soft and strong at the same time! I am not a fan of the Crocks animation, personally because I hate feet and think Crocks are meant only for children, but hey to each his own.

http://www.glassworks.co.uk/content/character-animation-reel-2013

Motion Graphics Showreel

So I came across this motion graphics guy's showreel from 2007 on Youtube. I haven't seen too many reels for motion graphics, so I don't have much to compare it to, but it seems pretty cool. The video description says that it's a mix of his personal and commercial stuff.

I think my favorite part is the recycling bin logo coming off the bin and the face effects that show up towards the beginning of the reel. He also seems to really like camera mapping (at least I think that's what it's called), the zooming in and out of a series of 2-D images to create a 3D world. He seems to do that a lot, especially with tree branches. The video that comes up first on his channel is like that as well- it uses what looks like paper cutouts stacked on top of each other to make a layered environment. I think it's cool that he has that as his favorite technique, it makes you recognize his work more easily. If I find any other reels that have patterns or techniques/looks that they seem to favor, I'll post them, too.