Starting a career in animation can be rather difficult. Your demo reel and portfolio are what employers will be looking at to see if you are good enough to hire. Usually they have many different portfolios and material to review so they will not have much time to look at yours. This is why you should make a great first impression of your skills. Only put in your best work, because you want them to see the greatest things you've done. Don't pick something just because you liked it, but because it was very well done. Keep your demo reel short and sweet, one minute or a max of two minutes long should do. Your portfolio should also include work other than animation like drawings, storyboards, and a short film. This way you'll appear to be more well-rounded and could get you work in other areas of production as well.
Well, we learned most of this last year, but I guess it's a good refresher. It's an understatement to say it's important to leave a good impression on a future employer no matter the field or profession. It's vital to getting any job. I'm glad I now have more experience with video and can put my projects into my portfolio. It should be obvious that we all would put our best work out to be seen and not our... well, less than stellar projects. I know that animation isn't exactly in my future, mainly because I'm a poor artist, but video is something that I would like to acquire a career in, especially editing. I'm not sure if I need a demo reel for video, that'd be nice to know.
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