About
The graphic novel is an oft-maligned literary art form, a bastard son of prose and drawing. Some graphic novels have shed this stigma and risen to noteworthiness while tackling powerful political and philosophical issues: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis recounts the horrors faced by an Iranian family during the fall of the Shah, Art Spiegelman’s Maus presents a powerful portrayal of the Holocaust, Gibbons & Moore’s Watchmen tackles the spectre of nuclear holocaust and mankind’s darkest inner nature. These creators used the integration of text and graphics to gain access to motion picture‚ powerful storytelling devices of timing, mood, and space, while still retaking a book‚ qualities of detail, introspection, and review.
Lost Remnants is, at first glance, an exploration of graphic technique: a fusion of digital photography, 3D modeling, image resampling, and computer compositing. But beyond that, it is an experiment in storytelling- can all these whizzbang technologies create a story that is compelling, human. Can they make you think about the world around you, by showing you a world somewhere else?