Thu 14 Jan
2010
In Defense of Earnestness
A twelve-minute computer-animated tour of post-modern architectural specimens (real and imagined), set to a heroic, Hans Zimmer-esque soundtrack… frankly, it sounds like a bad idea. But Alex Roman pulls it off. It is a testament to what this type of animation does best; shine and stone and metal, but what I appreciate most is the risk in making something straight-forward and earnest.
Roman (pseudonym for Jose Selva) uses technology to make something familiar, better. Something in which everything is CG and quite entertaining. Record something, write something, cook something. Get that first version behind you, critics–especially the pesky inner-critic–be damned.