The Allan Mckay Podcast

The most important thing you have to land your dream job -- is a rock-solid demo reel. But all it takes is one bad shot -- one unexplained element or any of the other traps that artists fall into every day -- to have your reel switched off and have your viewer move onto the next one. I wanted to share my perspective as someone who has hired artists and has looked through hundreds of reels when hiring for my company CatastrophicFX. I have also reviewed reels inside my Mentorship or Reel Review Webinars. I’ve interviewed dozens of Supervisors, Recruiters and Leads at studios like ILM, Weta, Image Engine and every other big studio on the planet.  And what we all agree on is that almost every artist is oblivious to the fact that one single shot on their reel can: Cost them the job; Cause for the potential employer to skip over their reel;  Question if the artists did what they claimed they did because they weren’t clear about their ownership.  Or: Their reel never got watched because some minor thing got overloo