yeah, for a modeling position, turntables would probably be good, maybe some basic movements to show your character models are articulate and the like.

As for reels, man, listen to these guys... don't fill your reel with crap.

We had a reel come into the office that was bizarre... the first good 45 seconds of it was cheap Flash animation of a band singing along with a music track pulled from the internet or whatever...

First... FLASH?! What the hell? This is a game company! Yeah, there are flash games out there, and if he showed a flash game on his reel, that might at least be interesting, but we don't do anything with flash here... plus the flash animation he showed was crap.

Second... the stuff AFTER the horrible song, crappy flash wasn't actually half bad, but we were so turned off by the just total off-the-wall crap that preceded it, we chunked it immediately.

Word to the wise.