I heard about this short film back when I was in school at the Art Institute, but I didn’t get around watching it until today. That’s probably a good thing because I would have been totally disappointed in my own work after viewing this.

It’s a fully computer-generated film, created by a single person, Alex Roman, that will pretty much blow your mind.  When I first started watching it, I swore it was actual video footage, not CG compositions.  It’s that good.  The artist left some comments on his vimeo page about what is and isn’t computer created:

Well, there are several questions i’ve been asked for…

-I think i must make it clear. There are a few non-CG elements in the shortfilm: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, timelapsed growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.

-It was ALL rendered on an i7 920 and a QX6850 -very low budget :( -

I hope it helps a bit!

I HIGHLY recommend you watch it in full screen HD on Vimeo if you can rather than the non-HD embedded version below.

Then, when you’ve picked your jaw back up off the floor, watch the compositing breakdown:

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