Remember The Third and the Seventh, that amazing piece of architectural CGI by Alex Roman that I blogged about in January? If you don’t, don’t worry — I’ve reposted it below.
Just up is a new piece by Roman that’s a stunning one minute of slow-motion images that are pure CGI. Titled “Above Everything Else,” it’s a spot for kitchen countertop manufacturer Silestone. Writes Motiongrapher:
Although this spot is 100% CG, the beauty of the shots distract the viewer from this amazing fact. Each composition is elegantly balanced: light counterweights dark, chaos challenges order. The sparse soundtrack creates a sense of lightness and wonder, and we are invited into a world that seems so real, so tangible, that we fully accept the glass-like shattering of grapes and peppers.
It almost doesn’t matter that the spot is purely digital. Sure, it’s an eyebrow-raising footnote, but Roman...
Just up is a new piece by Roman that’s a stunning one minute of slow-motion images that are pure CGI. Titled “Above Everything Else,” it’s a spot for kitchen countertop manufacturer Silestone. Writes Motiongrapher:
Although this spot is 100% CG, the beauty of the shots distract the viewer from this amazing fact. Each composition is elegantly balanced: light counterweights dark, chaos challenges order. The sparse soundtrack creates a sense of lightness and wonder, and we are invited into a world that seems so real, so tangible, that we fully accept the glass-like shattering of grapes and peppers.
It almost doesn’t matter that the spot is purely digital. Sure, it’s an eyebrow-raising footnote, but Roman...
- 11/17/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
(Images from The Third and the Seventh. Left is real, right is rendering. See the making of here.)
For an art so endlessly photographed--even boasting its own discipline--architecture is the subject of surprisingly few decent films. There's My Architect, of course, but wasn't that more about a father and his son? And there's Sketches of Frank Gehry, but it fell victim to the weirdness of its subject (more about Frank being silly than Frank being a genius, or even an architect). (Am I missing any good ones?)
The list of films inspired by architecture--or simply in awe of it--is a hundred times as long, from 2001 and Blade Runner to Vertigo and The Passenger, to, my favorite, The Naked City (check out the epic Williamsburg Bridge chase scene at the end). If buildings can be characters in movies like those, why can't they star in films all their own? Where's architecture's Helvetica?...
For an art so endlessly photographed--even boasting its own discipline--architecture is the subject of surprisingly few decent films. There's My Architect, of course, but wasn't that more about a father and his son? And there's Sketches of Frank Gehry, but it fell victim to the weirdness of its subject (more about Frank being silly than Frank being a genius, or even an architect). (Am I missing any good ones?)
The list of films inspired by architecture--or simply in awe of it--is a hundred times as long, from 2001 and Blade Runner to Vertigo and The Passenger, to, my favorite, The Naked City (check out the epic Williamsburg Bridge chase scene at the end). If buildings can be characters in movies like those, why can't they star in films all their own? Where's architecture's Helvetica?...
- 1/11/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
The online video of the moment is Alex Roman's The Third & the Seventh — so much so that Roman's own site, which I was going to link to, is down due to bandwidth excess. (It redirects to the Vimeo video below, but rather than watching here, go to Vimeo and resize to HD and see it full-screen.) The video is described by Roman as "a Full-cg animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal." In other words, what you are seeing is 100% CG but based on existing architectural spaces, such as Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall. Using 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere, Roman made this entire video...
- 1/9/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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