Think "Avatar" looks "real"? You have no idea...

[libertango]

I present to you The Third & The Seventh, a completely computer-generated 12-minute film by Alex Roman.

Honestly. Even if you rarely watch embedded videos, you should see this one for the sheer verisimilitude. Yes, the image you see below in the thumbnail -- Louis Kahn's parliament building in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- is not a photograph.

For those who absolutely cannot watch video online, stills are available at the website for the film.

EDITED TO ADD: Now that I've seen the thing all the way through (I felt it was good enough to jump the gun, earlier):

* The cubical space with the circular concrete cutouts? That's Kahn's library for Phillips Exeter Academy. So having books flying around in it is sly.

* Lifting Nyman's score for Gattaca is a nice touch.

* One can't help thinking of Ron Fricke's IMAX film Chronos with some of the time lapse effects being used.

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The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Comments

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

That was a thing of beauty, and time well spent. Thanks.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Pretty and interesting -- thanks.

I found that the human figure (and the moving shadows of human figures) still fell into the uncanny valley.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

To my eye, it was pretty obvious Roman is mostly an architectural guy, knows it, and was trying to fudge the human figure when possible. Thus the translucent screen, showing him from behind, etc -- all ways of showing a figure without showing a face, which is the trickiest bit.