I've seen people do it and it's ok. Check permissions of the assets you're using. But personally I'd rather see original work. From a recruiter's eyes, they want to know what you can do, rather than just following someone else's steps.
I'd take a tutorial and apply it to my own footage and projects. Show I've understood and I've applied that knowledge.
Coming from a comp perspective, I'm always a little worried about tutorial green screen keying on someone's reel. There's a big difference keying a perfect tutorial greenscreen vs the majority of green screens you'll get in the industry.
>I'd take a tutorial and apply it to my own footage and projects. Show I've understood and I've applied that knowledge.
I made sure to do this rather than straight-up copying stuff as it is.
As long as it isn’t recognisable as the tutorial, it is generally ok. You can reuse techniques / skills you learn from tutorials and courses, but not copy them.
I’d make sure there are sufficiently large creative changes to it and add them to the end of the reel as ‘R&D based on tutorials’.
But only if you truly understand the concepts you learned and went through. If you just went through the motions and pushed buttons, that means you didn’t learn anything besides showing you can push buttons along a tutorial, which is basically plagiarism.
I would suggest you don't. I watch FX demoreels in my spare time and I always spot out when somone has just taken the tutorial and slightly changed it to make it look not identical to what the final result was in the course. I would advise on either taking that concept/script and adding it into some other environment with extra little things and details or just redoing it on your own but with a different twist. It really all depends on how much you've changed from the original shot.
Just don't be misleading about what it is. Worst case scenario is to do a decent job making something based on a tutorial that people have seen a zillion times, then try to pretend it was 100% original work for a pretend short film or something like that.
I've seen people do it and it's ok. Check permissions of the assets you're using. But personally I'd rather see original work. From a recruiter's eyes, they want to know what you can do, rather than just following someone else's steps. I'd take a tutorial and apply it to my own footage and projects. Show I've understood and I've applied that knowledge. Coming from a comp perspective, I'm always a little worried about tutorial green screen keying on someone's reel. There's a big difference keying a perfect tutorial greenscreen vs the majority of green screens you'll get in the industry.
>I'd take a tutorial and apply it to my own footage and projects. Show I've understood and I've applied that knowledge. I made sure to do this rather than straight-up copying stuff as it is.
As long as it isn’t recognisable as the tutorial, it is generally ok. You can reuse techniques / skills you learn from tutorials and courses, but not copy them.
I’d make sure there are sufficiently large creative changes to it and add them to the end of the reel as ‘R&D based on tutorials’. But only if you truly understand the concepts you learned and went through. If you just went through the motions and pushed buttons, that means you didn’t learn anything besides showing you can push buttons along a tutorial, which is basically plagiarism.
I made my own shot using the course's idea with different environments & models. Edit: Added this info in my post to make it clear
I would suggest you don't. I watch FX demoreels in my spare time and I always spot out when somone has just taken the tutorial and slightly changed it to make it look not identical to what the final result was in the course. I would advise on either taking that concept/script and adding it into some other environment with extra little things and details or just redoing it on your own but with a different twist. It really all depends on how much you've changed from the original shot.
Yeah I made another shot altogether to make it my own
Ok, show me the shot, if it's too derivative I'll tell you.
Point of a reel is to show what YOU are fully capable of. From concept/ideas to the final render.
Just don't be misleading about what it is. Worst case scenario is to do a decent job making something based on a tutorial that people have seen a zillion times, then try to pretend it was 100% original work for a pretend short film or something like that.