Good on you for taking crits so well! I can't count the number of times you see people go into super-defensive mode on their showreels. Heres some useful short tips from Pixar that would apply for a lot of companies some of this has been mentioned above as well; https://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/jobs/howto.html https://www.pixarcanada.com/apprentice_howto.html https://www.3drender.com/jobs/top10.htm There's nothing wrong with what you have to start off with, but it might not be enough for a professional reel so make more stuff, complicated stuff, and show off more technique in terms of modeling. Try pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, join a challenge or a group project to get the pressure up. Knowing the kind of job you're going for it's easier to tailor your reel and keep it to the point. If you look at job ads from large companies like this one https://www.dneg.com/jobs/modeller_197.html make sure you fit the bill and display those skills as best you can in a reel, for example it's always nice to see pretty lighting and camera angles but if it's not relevant to the kind of job you want that time might be better spent constructing excellent UV maps as all these places get swamped with reels. We're not Pixar by any means, and we get reels from time to time that look like they were put together by 3-year olds to be brutally honest, so I don't even wanna think about what these guys go through. And I've had my head bitten off several times for trying to make helpful suggestions to these people, common sense and being polite takes you a long way as well in life Another thing to look at is the competition, places like VFS and DAVE push their students pretty hard on reels, so if I was putting my reel together I'd look at their student reels and try producing similar things to what I liked in theirs as best I could.