The Third & The Seventh Revisited
This short film by Alex Roman on Vimeo still blows me away. The Third & The Seventh, is beautifully photographed, edited and composed — by a single artist. The absolutely stunning thing about it is that, barring just a few composited shots, everything in it is computer-generated. The camera itself is computer-generated. He took real world images and textures, overlaid them on wireframe computer models with virtual camera moves and lens effects and composited and rendered the whole thing on fairly “low budget” computer.
It took him a year.
It may sound geeky, but watch the thing (especially in HD and in fullscreen on Vimeo). Remind yourself that everything you are viewing is CG. Those chairs, tables, lamps? Computer generated. The buildings, cherry trees, water…none of them exist as you are seeing them.
Computer graphics are routinely over-used (and rendered cheesy) by Summer blockbusters. This shows that they can be sublime, poetic — and very nearly indistinguishable from reality.
Amazing.
The Third & The Seventh, by Alex Roman: