illusion to reality

It was a cloudy day yesterday to scout for a great location for my VFX projects and as Tad had once mentioned, growing up here has proven to be much of obstacle when it comes to finding a location probably because we had already grown numb to what's around us.

I was set to meet up with Elham and help him out in his shoot as well but we missed each other. Undeterred, I made a trip down to school as location numero uno. I had recently paid a visit to the roof of the school and noticed that it is actually quite a gem of a location being that it is a building roof on a little mount of hill in central Singapore. However with the swarm of trees around the region, it would be quite a hindrance thus the initiative to climb higher. The solution was to climb up to the top of the external shell of the staircase.

And the following were the results of the captures:


I am not exactly sure that it would be a great choice though I would have to say it does provide a platform and a backup idea. However the extending wide horizon of skyline does leave some space for imagination. I hurt myself doing the climbing, so this has better be worth it in time to come.

Moving on, I decided to take Tad's advice and relocated to the new Helipad Rooftop Bar. Now this is one great place thanks to it strategically well-placed position. The following below are the location shots:


Now the idea initially discussed was a HUGE-ASS GIANT ROBOT's destruction of a city and it's movie-like effects for which I was dissuaded and persuaded to focus on a short and perfect sequence instead. The newly minted idea was to have the HUGE-ASS GIANT ROBOT appear in the scene down by Clarke Quay opposite Central Shopping Mall, where the GMAX Reverse Bungy is located, and have it do a human slingshot.

Below is the GMAX Reverse Bungy as shown in animation sequence format:

What remains at this moment after these two locations are to continue my search and to flesh out better ideas. To continue improving. Let it continue. Brainstorming that is.