The Selection Process

The first part of creating the showreel would be to select my best pieces of work to include. King (2010) states "Although the showreel should geared toward a particular type of art, it should show the artists versatility" [online, careerFAQ]. I felt this was important as although I wanted to show my best concept design work, I also wanted to show my best comic page layouts as hopefully it would be seen by both industries in the future. For this reason I re-named my website and showreel 'Illustration' and not just 'Concept Design'.

With the above in mind I began selecting the best pieces of my work, in concept design and comic illustration. As advised by my tutor and corroborated by Garing (2009) who states "A good showreel should only include finished and perfected artwork, no works-in-progress" [online, VFX].

The showreel had to be at least 30 seconds long so I made a random collation of images and set them so that they changed at timed intervals, I then asked several people which time they thought best i.e should the images change every 2, 3 or 4 seconds.

According to the data collected, the best time for each image was either 4 or 5 seconds. So with that in mind I worked out that I would need about 10-12 images.

I decided that I would use 5 of my graphic novel images, 5 concept design and perhaps 2 environment designs as I wanted the showreel to play to my strengths.