18 Impressive Freelancer Demo Reels

18 Impressive Freelancer Demo Reels

on Nov 12th 2010 with 41 comments

Were going to take a look today at some really impressive work by some not-so-well-known freelancers in our business. People just like these guys are the ones that keep our business fresh and keep setting the bar higher and higher for people like you and me, so check em out! If you want to be featured sometime… link yourself up in the comments!

Francios Tarlier

Kamal Tahtah

Yuri Kneppers

Tim Howe

Mancel Lindsey

Michael Cardwell

Chris Beaudoin

Jonathan Cohen

Olliver Harris

Rick Thompson

Diana Paez

Bill Dwyer

Todd Blankenship

Toddy Ivon Niel

Christopher San Agustin

Christian Schmid

Richard Lord

Richard Dufty

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Topher Welsh is a post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion graphics and visual effects. He is a freelancer out of Tacoma, Washington, and also runs www.VisualFXtuts.com, which provides a daily fix of tutorials from any and all applications in the visual effects industry. His personal website is found here: www.Toe-Fur.com.  

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  • http://www.behance.net/scedy Scedy

    Just AWESOME !

  • http://shuvravfx.tumblr.com/ SHUVRA

    Check out Here One Of The Greatest Freelancer Motion Graphics Artist Diana Paez Interview

    http://shuvravfx.tumblr.com/post/1064426298 & I’m Proud Be her Friend :)

    • http://visualfxtuts.com Topher Welsh
      Author

      Awesome! Thanks for that link… thats a great interview!

      • http://shuvravfx.tumblr.com/ SHUVRA

        My Pleasure :) , Anyways you Are Doing A Great Job by Posting These Round UPs :D

  • http://- ubaywongkampung

    subhanallah………..

  • http://www.samuelfast.se Samuel

    Great post!

    linking myself up!
    http://vimeo.com/13093871

    //Samuel

  • Andrew

    WOW O_O GREAT people :)

  • http://subsonicdesign.net Subsonic Design

    Yeaaah! I just love good looking showreels. I especially enjoyed Todd Blankenship’s reel. :)

  • http://www.dianapaez.com Diana

    Super honored to be on this! Thanks AE Tuts +!

    • http://visualfxtuts.com Topher Welsh
      Author

      Of course! Keep up the good work, and let me know when you have an updated reel! I can probably put it in the next one!

  • http://danielbroadway.blogspot.com Daniel Broadway

    Was anyone else disappointed when they didn’t see their own demo reels on this list? Heh.

  • http://www.brettbrinkerhoff.com Brett Brinkerhoff

    Some really nice work in there. I happen to work with Mike Cardwell and have worked with Mancel. Both those guys have some great work! Looks like it might be time for me to update my reel http://vimeo.com/4686671

  • http://www.raubkopictures.de/ Scott

    Great inspiration!

  • http://ace5studios.com Aleksey

    I’m a bit dissapointed that i didn’t see my own reel =(

    but then again im ussually over at cgtuts as opposed to here..

    oh well.

  • Chris

    YOU’RE ALL HIRED!! :D

  • http://www.motiongraphics.com.br Toddy

    Thanks for the link, is very good to know that I’m on that list, and among many others motion graphics artists as good in my country, being the only one in Brazil to join the list is amazing, my site had over 2000 visitors today. I’m really happy!

  • http://www.francois-tarlier.com francoisgfx

    Thx Topher for putting me there :) I’m very glad.

    (this reel is really getting old, I really have to update it… )

  • http://www.jonathanberkey.com Jonathan Berkey

    Hey I know some of these guys….ROCK IT!

    posting up as well….http://www.vimeo.com/4329554

  • http://www.space-jump.com Vladimir Tomin

    1.5 really impressive (if team work counts here), 2-3 good, rest is basic stuff imo, I’d rather put less reels but with better quality.

    Even my shitty every-year reels could be here I think:
    http://space-jump.com/html/reels.html

    Anyway, thanks for those 5 inspiring reels, it was great, too bad some good people (I’m not talking about my shit of course) are not on list.

  • http://amplifiedanimations.com Julian Waller

    wow that was awesome! I love seeing posts like these

  • http://www.therocketpanda.com therocketpanda

    Even mine should be here! ;)
    http://vimeo.com/16022584

    Kudos everyone, some of these reels are really professional!

  • memedai

    Wow, some are soooo baaad.

    9 Minutes of amateur stuff really made my cry.

  • memedai

    Is Rick Thompson working vor d-kitchen.com? It has some projects of dk in his reel.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/r4p1dmage Rangetogethe

    great thnx for the post

    my fav is Toddy Ivon Niel

  • http://www.vimeo.com/beaudoin Chris

    So honored to be mentioned on aetuts. Sites like this make me work harder. Thanks everybody.

  • Max

    There is some good stuff here, but at least half of the list is overrated.
    I would not call those reels “impressive”, maybe somwhere along the lines of “people with good potential”.
    I feel that the quality here is a tad low.
    BTW there was good stuff too.
    just my two cents.

    • http://www.nawazalamgir.com Nawaz

      I totally agree, most of these reels are really poor, no consistency in design or animation, poor designs, the only good thing in most of them are they they are short.

      But there where a few decent ones

  • http://vimeo.com/16284177 Gary

    You forgot my showreel :(
    http://vimeo.com/16284177
    ^^

  • http://www.zechnerfilm.com Michael

    hi there! thanks for this post – really great reels! :-)

    just wanted to share my new one with you guys too:
    http://vimeo.com/16393720

    cheers, michael

  • http://billdwyer.net Bill Dwyer

    Wow! Some great talent here on this list, and some good reels in the comments section as well.
    Thank you for including me in your roundup!

  • http://mancellindsey.com Mancel Lindsey

    Thanks for the plug Topher! Really appreciate it.

  • D4 Manager

    some of them are good, but music was terrible.

  • http://kamaltahtah.com Kamal Tahtah

    … honored to be on AE tuts! And Thanks for all you shared
    c’est chouette!

  • http://www.rnud.ch/ arnahud

    Good jobs !
    This one is impressive too !
    Have a look : http://vimeo.com/14990797

  • http://www.lapetitewebagency.com Laura@ creation referencement internet

    Very impressive video!!!
    kamal is a brillant artist and i have seen more of his work on http:www.kamaltahtah.com and http://www.lapetitewebagency.com
    Thanks for helping me to discover this great motion designer

  • http://monolithcreative.com JASON
  • João Castro

    Impressive!
    This one is awesome too: segundo.tv

  • Jeff Lee

    A little bit late but posting mine too. Excellent work everyone!!
    http://www.vimeo.com/17667202

  • http://www.richarddufty.com Richard Dufty

    Hey some top stuff on this lineup. Thanks for including me I only just spotted it!
    Got some new work and reel up on my site now. Drop by and have a look!
    Thanks.
    R

  • http://www.draw-art.ru kvins

    amaizing

  • David Jones

    What about Barbecue Design?
    http://www.barbecue-design.de/