Discreet Showreel Retrospective

I figured that folks mostly wanted to see the systems reels, but don’t sleep on the b-sides. There’s a lot of cool stuff in the broadcast reels (Manhattan Transfer, Attik, Plus et Plus, Red Post, etc) but my favorite gems are found if you dig around in the software reels.

There was a NY company called K+DLab that used 3dsMax to make bizarrely, unnecessarily beautiful architectural visualizations for, like, the Department of Energy and the occasional solo art project. The K in that company is Joseph Kosinski, who went on to direct Tron and the new Top Gun. I loved looking at their submissions every year.