Personal porfolio plan

For a portfolio, I'm aiming to make it designed for an animation career.  For this I will require a showreel which i do have but need to further refine it to only include the best and necessary content aimed for a particular field which is 2D character animation. I do have a few animation project pieces I can include in this:

*First 2D animation made in flash
*Fox animation on the theme ingenuity which was also animated in flash
*Eagle and Bull animation also done in Flash.
*Maybe the Rot scope shots coloured in Photoshop.
*A lone Scar, third year final animation which is completely hand drawn on paper, scanned in and frames edited together in Photoshop.

I can also include a second showreel containing some of my 3D animated works which won't be as extensive as the 2D one.

* An animated shot or two of my dragon model that was a personal project I never got around to animating.
*A couple of shots from my Masters project, Sun's Requiem but will only feature tow of the characters.
* The two shots from Death School featuring the cat and mouse I modeled, rigged and animated.

If time allows I would love to include an animation in the layout. I also plan to include a couple of concept art images in the layout. This will be the two characters from A Lone Scar and additional images of other characters I've created.

I do plan to include some character art sketches I've worked on which are of the anime/manga style. I might decide to color these or outline them digitally due to the actual drawings being on big A3 size sheets. I could even take photos of them with a camera but for good quality, will need to be a HD camera.

Also would love to include game design works too especially in regards to the 2D stencyl game assignment. I have a lot of new skills from this subject and wish to include in a portfolio.

During the up coming TAFE holidays , I plan animate a couple of hand drawn short animations to include as more recent projects. This will help in refining my drawing and animation skills.

Hopefully this can be incorporated in with another major project I'm working on. This is also a personal portfolio website.

Five Portfolio examples.

Here are some animation Portfolio examples I've found through google search.

1. http://www.bahadirtosun.com/

2. http://www.deeboyd.com/

This portfolio is one of my favourites. I like how it uses flash animation in the actual layout at the very top of the page. Sometimes animations incorporated into the layout will work against a portfolio due to being  overly distracting but this one isn't. The reason why is because it's all black line art with colour so it actual blends into the layout without being too distracting. It even adds character to the layout, making the portfolio more animation orientated. From what I can tell, the artist has a lot of experience with Adobe Flash due to being able to make this portfolio in the program. I've actually attempted this before but it can be very technical with the scripting involved. The information and content is well done without being confusing and easy to navigate through.
 From what I noticed, the portfolio does support the artwork immensely as the portfolio is designed for animation and does contain all necessary elements with a little extra detail going into adding the interactivity with the cat and the yarn ball, which have pretty smooth animation.
One element I wasn't fond of was the audio at the start when you click to enter the site. It could actually work fine without it but on a good note, the animation clips have the audio still which is very necessary in demonstrating the audio work including in each animated short.

3. http://www.tughan.com/animations.htm

4. http://www.jessejaymesjones.com/

5. http://www.jeremypstewart.com/#works

Twenty Jobs in Animation.

I managed to find twenty more Animation job opportunities advertised on a few different sites, several in Australia and some overseas. I mainly screen grabbed the ones concerning 2D, 3D, Vector, Internship, Freelance, full-time, compositing and animation. Also found some with Maya generalist as a requirement which I wouldn't mind applying for due to having skills in Maya from my studies at University.