Animation Shot & Demo Reel Review
Find Out What Is Holding Your Reel Back
An animation reel review recorded by Filippo Dattola — Lead Animator, 15 years on major feature productions.
A Recorded Critique of Your Own Work
You have watched your shot a hundred times and you cannot see it any more. That is normal. It is also exactly when an outside eye — one trained inside high-end cinematic productions — makes the biggest difference.
I sit down with your work alone and record what I actually see: the two or three things genuinely holding it back, marked frame by frame on your own shots. Not encouragement. Not twenty notes you will never action.
An animation reel review gives you that outside eye, recorded and yours to keep.
What This Review Covers
Weight, silhouette, spacing, timing and performance choices — marked directly on your frames, in the order they should be fixed. The same standard applied inside real productions, where nobody has time to be vague.
Who This Is For
Students finishing a course, self-taught animators building a first reel, and working professionals who want a second opinion on a personal shot from outside their studio. If you are ready to hear the truth about your work, this is for you.
What It Is Not
It is not encouragement, and it is not a promise of a job. If your reel needs another year of work, I will tell you that — and I will tell you what to do with that year. If you want to go further, the full cost of your review comes off your first phase of the 1-on-1 mentorship if you start within 60 days.
Review Details
REEL REVIEW — £69
Your full demo reel, up to 2 minutes. A 20–30 minute recorded critique plus a written summary: what to cut, what to reorder, what is missing.
SHOT REVIEW — £39
One shot, up to 20 seconds, at any stage. A 15–20 minute recorded critique with draw-overs and the priority fixes, in order.
TURNAROUND
Your recorded critique arrives by email within 5 working days. No call to book, no scheduling across time zones.
ANY STAGE
Blocking, splining or polish. Send it in blocking if it is in blocking — that is when feedback saves the most time and the most rework.
PRIVACY
Short anonymous excerpts may be used as teaching examples — never your name, your full reel, or anything that identifies you. Everything else stays private.
CREDITED
Start the 1-on-1 mentorship within 60 days and the full cost of your review comes off your first phase.
MENTOR
Every review is recorded personally by Filippo Dattola, Lead Animator, 15 years on major feature productions.
Why an Animation Reel Review Works
Most feedback is either too kind to be useful or too vague to act on. Friends tell you it looks great. Forums give you twenty contradictory notes. Neither tells you what a Lead Animator with real feature production experience would fix first.
Animators mentored through SquashnStretch.net have gone on to work at studios such as Framestore, MPC, DNEG and Disney. The review you receive applies the same standard used in those pipelines — specific, prioritised, and focused on the decisions behind the shot rather than the buttons.
You get a recorded video you can rewatch at 2am while you are actually working, plus draw-overs on the frames that matter. No call to book, no scheduling across time zones, and no obligation to continue.
Find Out Where You Actually Stand
Choose a Reel Review (£69) or a Shot Review (£39). Delivered within 5 working days, and credited in full against your first mentorship phase if you start within 60 days.