- Do you have any tips for becoming a better animator?
  - Im having trouble with my timing, any ideas?
  - I want to get into game animations, what type of animations should I do?
  - Do you have any suggestions that will help me stay away from the extreme comedy, yet still have it funny?
  - Im doing a comedic short, do you have any suggestions?
  - I've Heard of two ways to animate, Pose to Pose and Block it out, which do you do?
  - I just don't understand the graph editor as well as I should, what do you use?
  - In Acting for Animators and Animation 3D we were incouraged to used stopwatches to get cycles down and timing, do you utilize this?
  - What are some sources of information I could look up to continue gaining knowledge in Animating?
  - What does IK mean? FK?
  - Do you sketch out your animations before you start them?
  - Where do you get your ideas for your animations?
  - Whats a 'moving hold'?
  - What are some good animation exercises?
  - How should I Present my animations to get crits and better feedback?
  - The guy is supposed to be franticly running with arms that are numb, i cant seem to get the arms the way i want it.
  - Do you use any reference DVDs?
  - How to animate a pivot in maya?

  ====General====
  - General Demo Notes
  - How do I get my name out with just a demo reel?
  - What would you advise against showing?

  ====What Employeers Look For====
  - What Employeers are looking for in an Animation Demo Reel?

  ====My Demo Reel====
  - How long did it take to make your demo reel?
  - Did you complete all the animations on your Demo Reel while at Full Sail?
  - Are you working on a new reel?
  - Why did you do your demo reel that way?
  - For your reel animations, how many keyframes did you generally had?

  ====Animation Reels====
  - What are your employers looking for in an Animation reel?
  - With demo reels do you think in general are employers looking for flashy animations or subtle ones?
  - What would you like to see on future demo reels?
  - Should I use box models so that people look at the animation instead of the model?
  - Should I use the same character for a long sequence or break it up?
  - Should I build a demo reel with random clips of animation?
  - Show should I show emotions if im going for game animation?
  - I want to make a very emotional demo reel, what are your thoughts?

  ====Setup Reels====
  - What are the companies looking for in a demo reel for Setup?

  ====Modeling Reels====
  - Any insight for Modeling reels?

  - I have heard so many people talk about getting stuck with horrid companies, what do you do about this?
  - "I just want to be somewhere that I can learn from people who are good at their craft"
  - It may take several months to find a job after graduation to find a job, what do you think someone should do in that time?
  - What have been your experiences with crunches and overall animation schedules in games?
  - (in games)Do you feel inspired and do you feel you are constantly learning and growing in your animation?
  - How is the general work environment when it's not crunch time? Is it somewhat laid back or very intense and focused pretty much all the time?
  - (in games)How would you describe a typical work week there at TKO...and also your past experiences as a game animator?
  - Is there more jobs in doing realistic/creature animations rather then cartoony/snappy animations?
  - Do you think it would increase my chances of finding work if I devoted myself to creature animations and realistic motions as opposed to cartoony?
  - Do animators have to rig?
  - Do modelers have to texture?
  - Do you have to know somebody in big studios to get into them?
  - I have a really funny email address, should I use it for my professional one?
  - What kind of software or traditional tool do you commonly use in the industry?
  - Is the business any different than how you envisioned it when you were a student?
  - Do you find yourself moving alot as you go from project to project? If so, is it all over the U.S or is it usually within the same state?
  - Was it difficult to relocate after graduation from Full Sail? Was it absolutely necessary?
  - Do you focus on only animation or do you also other tasks as well (i.e Rigging, Modeling)?
  - How many different operating systems other than windows have you come across in your work experiences?
  - Would I be required to know something other than animation like, know how to rigging?
  - I don't think a gaming studio would hire me because I'm not a hardcore gamer?
  - Is working in the industry what you thought it would be when you got out?
  - So far how many different animation programs other than Maya have you used with each different company?
  - Do you find your self doing much more then animating?
  - How much did your other skills help you get a job?
  - Will a company teach me a different program?
  - Is switching to 3dsMax hard?
  - I am currently specializing myself in game modeling, what other 3d facet should I pursue?

  ====Program / General====
  - What have you found Full Sail's reputation to be among the industry that you have seen?
  - Do most companies know about the intense program here or do they just know that it's a media arts school?
  - Should I do an animated short for my reel while at Full Sail?
  - Should I aim to have all my assets ready by the time I start CAP or is there some cushion where I can afford to spend the first week rigging my characters?
  - After GCSD, being a modeler/texturer, is fullsail even worth continuing, since there is no modeling/texturing classes?
  - Im a lab monitor and have been keeping track of my open lab hours to show employers that on top of the rigorous curriculum I've spent x numbers of hours in open labs as well.

  ====Common Full Sail Advice====
  - If you could tell someone who is looking to go into the gaming industry one thing, what would it be?
  - Any parting advice for us Animation artists out here, what would yours be?
  - I'm about to enter CAP next month.  I was wondering if you could offer any advice as an animator on how I should approach it.

  ====My account of Full Sail====
  - Is the business any different than how you envisioned it when you were a student?
  - Is your job more time consuming then when you where at Full Sail?
  - Did you know that animation was what you wanted to concentrate on right away or did you decide as you were going through the program?
  - In Acting for Animators and Animation 3D we were encouraged to used stopwatches to get cycles down and timing, do you utilize this?
  - How did you get so good?  Did you spend countless hours in labs?  Natural knack?  Particular references you looked into?

  ====Setup / Rigging====
  - I was wondering what you charge to rig for a character?
  - Do Setup Artists just rig or do they also work in other areas?
  - How can I give lip movement to the character?
  - How to make character face expression like talking,laughing etc.?
  - What type of rigs would I be expected to build?
  - Is a Setup job just creating a joint system and binding the rig? It makes the job sound too easy.
  - Do characters the Setup Artist rigs up have a bunch of windows and sliders?

  ====Scripting / Dynamics====
  - MAXScripting?  Is that similar to MEL?  I'm afraid I know terribly little about scripting
  - What do the setup artist script?
  - Should I script a way to save a pose and quickly recall later?
  - Is there much work with dynamics, scripting?

  - Can I use the rigs on your site for a personal project?
  - Can these rigs be used in a demo reel?
  - Why do you host those rigs?
  - Will you re-rig/fix any of the rigs on on your site?
  - Is there a neck control on the "Sage Rig"?
  - Have you used the ninja model for any animations?
  - Why do the Shoulders on the Ninja Rig stop at his head?
  - How do you smooth out the polygon in Maya for rendering?
  - How do you get the baby rig to work it gets an error when reading the file?
  - The comic girl rig is deformed and pre posed when I open the file?

  ====Personal====
  - How Tall are you?
  - Do you play basketball?
  - Why do you bullet point your emails?
  - How did you get into animation?
  - What kind of software do you use?
  - How did you get so good?  Did you spend countless hours in labs?  Natural knack?  Particular references you looked into?
  - Is there any certain branch of Animation that interests you the most, and if you'd like, why?
  - Are you a professor?
  - How you doing lately?
  - What projects are you currently working on and for what company?
  - Do you plan to make an animated short or full length film?
  - You have some serious talents, dont you plan to work with the big studios like, blue sky, pdi, pixar?

  ====Animating / 3d====
  - I've Heard of two ways to animate, Pose to Pose and Block it out, which do you do?
  - When, if at all, do you look at your project and just say to your self, "wow, that is really awesome," when animating it?
  - How much time do you spend in the pre-pro phase, just thinking of what is going to happen in the sequence?
  - I just don't understand the graph editor as well as I should, what do you use?
  - What software do you prefer?
  - Do you sketch out your animations before you start them?
  - Where do you get your ideas for your animations?
  - Is switching to 3dsMax hard?
  - Do you use any reference DVDs?

  ====Requests / Crits====
  - Can I get critique from you on my animations?
  - Do you have any free time at all to do an animation for me with the character I have?
  - Can I contact you?
  - Can I ask you questions that arent animation related?

  ====Full Sail Related====
  - Is your job more time consuming then when you where at Full Sail?
  - what is it that you like about animating so much that you decided to go into this industry?
  - How does the schedule at Fullsail compare to what you are doing now?
  - Do you reference alot of material for work, by using books that you got at Full Sail?
  - How did you get your foot in the door when you graduated Full Sail?
  - Did you know that animation was what you wanted to concentrate on right away or did you decide as you were going through the program?

  ====Websites====
  - Do you have any suggestions for Web providers?
  - What are the render setting for the movies on your site?
  - How did you get your web site higher on search engines?
  - Why do you host those rigs?
  - Could you take a look at my website and tell me what you think. Things i should get rid of, change, improve on, or even animations that i should fix?

  ====Industry Related====
  - What kind of software or traditional tool do you commonly use in the industry?
  - Is the business any different than how you envisioned it when you were a student?
  - What made you want to get in the industry?
  - Do you feel you made the right decision choosing your profession?
  - Is the job everything you expected to be?
  - Do you find yourself moving alot as you go from project to project? If so, is it all over the U.S or is it usually within the same state?
  - Was it difficult to relocate after graduation from Full Sail? Was it absolutely necessary?
  - Do you focus on only animation or do you also other tasks as well (i.e Rigging, Modeling)?
  - How many different operating systems other than windows have you come across in your work experiences?
  - Is working in the industry what you thought it would be when you got out?
  - So far how many different animation programs other than Maya have you used with each different company?
  - How long have you been in the industry?
  - Do you find your self doing much more then animating?
  - How much did your other skills help you get a job?
  - Hows working at NCsoft?

Directly relating to a demo reel:
	-dont show exercises, if it looks like class work, its probably not to exciting
	-dont repeat anims, show them once, we'll rewind if we wanna see it again

   Animations (to get into games)
	-leap over mid wall, roll, fire back over w/ a gun
	-special move/spell/power move - think of a fighting or platformer game
	-heavy recoil with an oversized gun (non comedic)
	-180 degree slide from sprint (run, slide to stop, turn, run in opposite direction)
	-exaggreated/severe death (non comedic, ex. gernade in the face, bounce against wall)
	-lots of bipeds, but also creatures, machines and monsters doing attacks, deaths, ect

-For a demo reel:
     -solid animation, sounds foolish but only pic your best stuff
     -biped (human esque) characters doing "player controled animations" things like jumps, runs, idles, 
      attacks and lots and lots of deaths.
     -Action cut sequences, jumping through a crushing/closing door to avoid explosions or a gun fight in a cooridor.  
      Sequence that give the player more story while still in game mode.

-2d portfolio (for animation):
     -first off, its truly not needed, but can be a plus but more often then not is medicore at best
     -solid gesture and line of motion from life studies of human form, 
     -less rendered and more action poses and studios of animals

     -solid animation, sounds foolish but only pick your best stuff
     -biped (human esque) characters doing "player controled animations" things like jumps, runs, idles, attacks and lots and lots of deaths.  
     -Action cut sequences, jumping through a crushing/closing door to avoid explosions or a gun fight in a cooridor.  
     -Sequence that give the player more story while still in game mode.
     -short clips that are packed with action
     -static cameras to show the animation, not hide it in a poorly moving camera

-Demo reel for setup:  Thats a long one.  
     - complex, compatiable, intuitive rigs
     - binding is a must, but dont make a point of it (muscle deformations ect) unless your doing dynmaic skinning, 
       your skins should be bound exceptionally well
     - bipeds allowing for fast action, acting, and extremes
     -facial setups
     -ikfk blending (typically automated, this is a first level script for Setup Artists)
      -ect
-MEL and Automation
      - showing an understanding of MEL is a heavy plus
      - having some sort of "Auto Rig" script is another heavy hitter.

     Making it as a Modeler:
      -become a lab monitor
      -spend every once of time you can modeling AT SCHOOL, sounds foolish but its better then at home
      -get a website ( i can help you with this) to show your work	
      -subscribe to online forums and keep up on posts and work to see what others are doing
      -get to know your peers, in classes a head and behind you, you never know when an animator or setup artists 
       needs a cool model and you can get some sweet assets from it.
      -dont do everything in your reel if your going for modeling, spend your time modeling, dont animate or setup if possible.

If you want more specific demo reel stuff, it really depends on what field your going for:
 high res film, contact Ricardo Ariza , www.concretepixel.com  or Adam Schuman , www.one-lung.com , for game and texture.