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    Alex Roman's "The Third & The Seventh"

    The Third & The Seventh is a 12 and a half minute short film by Alex Roman. It is, with few exceptions, a fully computer generated (CG) animation that explores the art of architecture from "a photographic point of view."

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    Still from Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh


    A couple of things to note:

    • In probably more than 95% of the film you can't tell it's a CG animation. It apparently took Roman a year to make this and it shows. What he does with textures is great but it's what he does with the lighting and selective focus that makes the results look so incredible.
    • It's not 100% CG. The following elements are good old fashioned reality: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, time lapse of growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.
    • Above all else this is just a beautiful film to watch. Whether or not it's CG is quite irrelevant, at least while you're watching it.
    • As Jamin Winans did (see my review of Ink), Alex Roman also did his own film score.

     

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    • 14 January 2010
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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    _________________
    From "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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