Demo Reel Research

This is one of my favorite demo reels. It features a lot of character animation and the mastery in portraying thoughts and emotions. This animator's real demonstrates her ability to know her characters from the inside-out and her firm understanding and use of the basic principles of animation. This is also a rather long demo reel, but it never gets old or boring to me. The music works great with the reel as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXGzUouqjE
I would like my reel to show skills in that area among other things.
This real has a variety of animation types.
That one also seems to be a bit long. I think 2 minutes is the best amount of time for a reel.

This reel also has a lot of traditional animation showing the portrayal of emotions, but much shorter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2-o3w6Jqs&feature=related

The transitions from rough animation to clean colored animation are nice.

I'm not crazy about the opening text. That text is cheesy and so it hurts the presentation as it makes it look less professional. A more low key text would work better. The music also seems to take away from the reel.

This reel has a nice variation of 2D animation.

It has strong work, interesting characters, and the editing works nicely. The music fits with the reel's content and does not distract from the animation. There is also a nice variety of aesthetics and styles. I don't think the space men fit in too well into the reel because the other clips of animation look like stronger work.