This, to me, is the most important thing to remember. Your friends and classmates may be impressed by the realistic textures applied to certain censored body parts, or by how well you penciled a hand-drawn sequence of the famous "lift and separate", or the amazing amount of detail involved in the bloody entrails splayed about in a two-minute grisly, pixelated bloodbath; employers, however, will not be. Nor will they look favorably on your animated tribute to your eternal devotion to whatever mind-alterations happened to get you through semester exams without bursting a vein; odds are they've seen it before, far too many times, and it will not leave a positive impression no matter how well it's animated. There's nothing wrong with having fun with your demo reel, and your animations; the majority of animation is about fun, but when preparing your demo reel, please try to keep it clean and family-friendly.
Professionalism doesn't just include the quality of your work; it includes the maturity to impose the appropriate restraints on the samples that you send to represent yourself. Remember that employers will see your demo reel long before they ever see you, and the content of that reel can cause them to form various impressions of you, both good and bad. Even video game companies that specialize in topless beach volleyball games will look for that professionalism in a reel; they'll be more interested, first, in how well you can maintain a work ethic in a professional environment. You can show them your fascinating technique for rendering bikini tan lines later--at the appropriate time.
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