The Third & The Seventh
Wow. This is a Herculean effort by Alex Roman. Twelve and a half minutes… entirely CG except for a couple of very small composited elements. A lot of people have commented on the obvious awesomeness of the textures and lighting, but the thing I love most is his restraint with the camera. A lot of people get a nice looking CG set and their first instinct is to spin the camera all over it without regards to real-world photography. In this, every shot feels real because he’s using a virtual track/dolly/jib. He even uses the crane’s shadow as an artistic element in a couple of shots.
Plus, he really went the extra mile to imitate the way light strikes a piece of film. In the breakdown you can see the subtle glares and vignette’s he added, the DOF follows real-world lenses, but that little touch of awesomeness that makes it look organic is that he actually used separate colored vignettes to simulate the way light gets diffused as it passes through the three emulsion layers on a piece of older color film. Its sometimes those little details that can breathe life into an image.
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Compositing Breakdown (T&S) from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Thank you Lukas for letting us know about this incredible piece! Besides the breathtaking effort in CG, Alex Roman even arranged the music by himself.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Hope soon you will start another shortfilm project and we will get mouth watering tips podcast from you AGAIN!!!
January 31st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
What a completely joyous and sensuous experience! Thank you. I look forward to a long string of future pleasures from your work.