Where exactly in San Fransisco is this?
Hullo San Fransiscans,
I work for a small UK VFX shop, and I've just started a new project that features a couple of stock footage clips.
It would be extremely helpful to know where these clips were shot. One shot, based in NYC, some luffly fellow Redditors helped me pin point on Google maps, here is the second:
https://www.filmsupply.com/clips/woman-commuting-to-work-in-san-francisco/100966
Could anyone offer a Google Maps pin?
Cheers!
Posted Dec 12, 2017, 9:34 PM UTC
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It's the Privately Owned Public Open Space in front of 555 Mission: https://goo.gl/maps/K5xxyvGQ8Yn
Spot on, thank you so much.
Can you tell us what you are doing?
Sure.
The project (we're on a tight timeline - we're using stock footage because there's no time to organise a shoot) mixes live action with CG.
It's my job to rebuild bits of the live action environment in CG, which will help us to apply effects, match things like camera movement and perspective, and composite everything together.
For the task at hand, Google Maps is very useful for figuring out things like the sizes and positions of buildings. It can be extremely difficult to judge these things from looking at the footage alone, much better to find good sources of information and an attempt to reduce guesswork.
It's jolly interesting, I think. It's not quite making spaceships whizz through the air (we've other people that do that), but it's an interesting problem solving exercise!
That is very cool. I’ve wanted to ask someone with knowledge for a while: there were a lot of movies that came out around the time of Godzilla set in SF that all had hyper realistic city layouts. I even saw my random unimportant residential building get destroyed. Was there a studio or something that made a super model of SF and sold it? Is that a thing?
You just helped a terrorist map our city. Just because some out of town random asks something on here doesn't mean you need to answer.
Jesus christ