Allan McKay has released a new ebook with tips and advice for creating demo reels. Find out more on his website (an email address is required)
Allan McKay’s free “The ultimate demo reel guide” ebook
Allan McKay has released a new ebook with tips and advice for creating demo reels. Find out more on his website (an email address is required)
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Pls be very careful, this looks a bit shady… no mail received yet (30min after, yes I’ve checked the spam) and I did not choose the second very “aggressively” presented offer…
This is just silly and pointless. Demo reel guide… give me a break. It’s pretty straightforward don’t waste money on this. Google and you will find enough info on what it takes for a demo reel. No need for a book like this. Selling magic beans. Sad.
it’s free… how can someone spend money on something that doesn’t cost anything? LOL
people like you… seriously
If someone is too afraid of “they might sell my email” then be smart and use many of the disposable email services, end.
“pointless” “silly” “shady” LOL…. are these people for real?
if you dont want to get it or find anything important about it, then don’t get it, duh!. but only because you dont find value on it, it doesn’t mean it won’t be useful for someone else in the world. Like, have you ever done a demo reel anyway or any important work? have you ever paid for 3D software and find value on trying to get at least the money back you spent on it? have you ever done something useful in 3D industry in your life? or you are just one of those that have never done any real work, talk like if you did and then pretend that you know what’s useful and what isn’t only because you can post a comment?
Haha such a scam..
Really BAD! Avoid as it put you on a spamming / scamming list. Almost as shady as that Grant Warwick character from a few years ago….
There is no mention of any such ebook on any of his social media accounts… Suspicious at the very least.
Comments here are hilarious. Allan Mckay does have a strange way of presenting his website , it almost seems like a dodgy site. But he does give out a lot of good free stuff. For example there was a whole 8 hour video on doing fire ball fx. I havent seen this book yet but I did get an email about it as I subscribe to his mailing list.
Hey guys, thanks for the comments..
So I wrote this book purely from the perspective of someone that hires artists and builds teams, it’s both my opinions but also having collaborated with many supervisors reviewing reels at ILM and Blur Studio to name a few studios, and the perspectives of those hiring managers as well. Rather than the I feel most of the information out there on getting a job, which is written by artists rather than managers.
But, in terms of signing up. Everything is free, I mostly wanted to continue building content for those interested in this subject, so weekly I’ve been building additional videos to send out to everyone who is interested in this particularly subject. On how to craft a perfect email to land work, how to use various CRM tools out there to get supervisor and managers email addresses, and a lot of additional video content to help give artists the opportunities to land the jobs they want.
So the book itself is free, and as is all of the other videos and everything associated with it.
However, for those not interested, or feel they might be scammed or think there is better material out there on Google (and who knows, maybe there is) I would suggest just not getting the book, the videos or anything else I guess that’s entirely up to you.
But for everybody else, I hope this is beneficial and it helps you, I know there’s a lot of life lessons I’ve learned during my early years as an artist trying to land a job (things like firing out the same reel to studio after studio, expecting that eventually somebody will hire me, rather than questioning maybe my approach is all wrong and I should be more results driven instead of just assuming I need to just play the numbers game and eventually someone will bite). So whatever I can share, as well as just being around dozens of other managers who also hire artists and review reels, and of course all of the guests I’ve had on the Podcast such as Kathleen Ruffalo the crew manager for Framestore, Ben Snow Snr VFX Supervisor at ILM, Pete Leonard crew manager at Realtime UK, Image Engine’s entire supervisor team, and a lot of other studios who we’ve all discussed very candidly the hiring process and what is likely to cost you the job during that process.
So I wanted to share as much of this as I can.
Either way for those interested, I hope you enjoy it and I hope it helps.
Thanks guys
Allan