{"id":1050,"date":"2009-08-18T02:58:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2009-08-18T02:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T10:58:49","slug":"splinedoctors-on-demo-reels-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/splinedoctors-on-demo-reels-ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Splinedoctors on Demo reels&#8230;. ouch ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a confirmation of what has been said by one of Pixar senior HR staff in Annecy, here is what Pixar artists have to say about demo reels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/splinedoctors.com\/2009\/08\/more-on-demo-reels\/\">http:\/\/splinedoctors.com\/2009\/08\/more-on-demo-reels\/  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit that I still don&#8217;t know what to think about the 4th bullet point:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;4) Don\u2019t use those free Internet models. I cant tell you how many times we see the same 4 or five models. Yes, we know its hard to rig and  find a good model to animate, but seeing the same rig for all these years is getting old. If you are gonna use a free rig, alter it so much so that you cant tell that its the norman rig or the animation mentor rig.Using the stock rig is just boring.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do they expect people to learn how to rig? I don&#8217;t have any problem with technical stuff like rigging or modeling but I am not sure everyone is really inclined towards that stuff so how much customization do they think is necessary when using &#8220;stock rigs&#8221;? Do they have any successful example?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a confirmation of what has been said by one of Pixar senior HR staff in Annecy, here is what Pixar artists have to say about demo reels. http:\/\/splinedoctors.com\/2009\/08\/more-on-demo-reels\/ I must admit that I still don&#8217;t know what to think about the 4th bullet point: &#8220;4) Don\u2019t use those free Internet models. I cant tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-animation-mentor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}