incredible realistic computer graphics

[Corresapolonia]

hi,

i found this shortfilm at Vimeo.

this One is by far the most beautiful and realistic looking CG-movie thus far.
This Movie is made from one Person. amazing

i don't know if the Persons in this video are animated too but everything else is animated.
relax and enjoy it:
http://vimeo.com/7809605

if you liked it check out the Compositing Breakdown and a making off of one scene:

breakdown: http://vimeo.com/8200251
making off: http://vimeo.com/8217700

[Purrrfect]

Come on virtual reality!

[Sanoske]

That was incredible, I loved it.

[Cantih]

pure eye porn

fapfapfapfapfap

[Weltall]

That is just ridiculously well done...

Cantih I love your fuggin avatar! lol

[Monkor]

He mentioned somewhere that the people, the birds, the skies, and maybe a few other things were live footage, but the majority is completely cg.

[Sonomaa]

was really awesome, the music was great too

[Antithesis]

That is absolutely incredible.

[Ksandra]

simply amazing

[wop]

The ambient music goes really well with this HD clip. Nice.

[Natallon]

Incredible!

[Serif]

I want to download that song so I can put it with my fall asleep music haha

[Atreides]

that looked like an advertisement for anti-depressants but it was awesome

[Maguspk]

unbelievable.

[Chun Liroy]

I can't count the number of times I said "Wow."

[#686578]

I thought this thread was about Mass Effect 2

[Shalyn]

Beautiful.

[OzzofAsura]

That is amazing.

[Morn]

Come on holo-deck!

Fixed.

Amazing vid.

[Aleth]

This guy is obviously is skilled but he is a bad guy. I would mostly compliment him on his rendering and compositing.

Whilst watching this (and making others who do CG watch this) there was definitely the thought that this was most amazing for the work of one person. The way it ran on in length it became even more impressive. This is alot of work to do in CG. Solo.

And the credits roll and he only credits himself, as the post linking it suggested he would. Then we started guessing how much work it would be for one person to create all the assets and put this together (the numbers were high).

Then we watched the "making of" link.

He downloaded a model of a library from google. He copied and pasted it. Modelling is a both an artistically and technically skilled process that takes time and effort.

He went to a site which sells textures. He downloaded his textures. Painting textures is a process that can take as long as painting any painting ever... good ones require a very good artist.

Looking for more information showed he did some modelling using blueprints as his base concept art for some other shots. Once again, concept art for CG is a time consuming and skilled process (though in this case the artist would have been an architect).

Check his credits again. He claimed all the work. He did not do all the work.

I can't complain about the result he got from compositing as it was good (though he used many bought plug-in tools with presets for the most of it).

Sure he piddled around with the textures, layering a few together and adding some randomisation in an artistic and visually savvy way. But let's not pretend someone else's textures are yours. Neither are someone else's models.

This guy should have referenced his sources. He used work that creatively belonged to at least 5 other people, most likely many more. If this was an academic piece he would likely lose all credibility by claiming all credit (especially when showing a video that proves he lied).

I was pretty disappointed on the thousands of comments on his videos offering no questions on this subject.

TLDR: Plagiarism

This shit wouldn't fly in science, why in techincal arts?