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MOTION · VIDEO · 2021—2024

Animation Reel

Client
Various
Year
2021—2024
Role
Motion design, broadcast graphics
Discipline
Nikki Ray & Architect Films
The brief

Selected animation work across documentary, lifestyle and brand projects for two production houses.

Snapshot

Compilation reel — selected motion and titling for documentary, lifestyle and brand work.

Output
Films, frames, broadcast variants
Tools
Premiere · DaVinci · After Effects
Duration
Rolling
Status
Updated quarterly

Process

How it got made.

Selected stills from the working files — block-outs, style frames and tests that informed the final piece.

Reel cut breakdown
fig. 01 — Reel cut breakdown120 → 90 seconds
Color pass
fig. 02 — Color passDaVinci — single LUT
Sound design
fig. 03 — Sound designTwo-track mix
Notes on the build

Reels are an editing problem more than a motion problem. The temptation is to put your loudest frames first; the better move is to pace it like a piece of music.

I cut to a single track and let the motion vocabulary cluster — broadcast intros up front, then documentary titles, then experimental loops. Each block has its own visual logic, but the cuts thread on rhythm.

Color and sound got a final unifying pass. One LUT across everything, one stereo mix, one master at three deliverables. Simple discipline, but it's why the reel reads as a single voice.

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