Its always amazing to witness how virtual universes, i.e. made up of CGI images, give reality a run for its money. Even more, the amount of time and talent some artists are willing to spend on some projects, where they recreate reality or even create a new one, is truly astounding.

The idea behind the “Third&Seventh” project from Alex Roman was to “illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces”. In order to concretize his vision, Roman produced the following short, a 95% CGI piece that defy your sense of what’s real and what’s not. Only the photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, timelapsed growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds are real. The rest is ALL CGI. A visual master piece, made of textures and lighting, of clam and poesy. Hyper-real.

Of course, you’ll say, architecture is much easier to reproduce on a realistic scale than organic matter, but “easy” is a big word. A great achievement, nonetheless. You only have to see the number of comments on the short’s Vimeo page to get a sense of how people have an hard time believing its almost all CGI. Also, don’t miss the making of right after the short to get a glimpse of the models used to create this piece. Enjoy.