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Inspire Resort Media Art "African Savanna"

2024

Concept

African Savanna, which bathes Aurora Street at Inspire Entertainment Resort in captivating color, is a visual and experiential media art piece created around the concept of "a beautiful savanna landscape tinted by the blazing red of the sun." Apollon Immersive Works layered the vast Aurora space with the deep scarlet and red hues of a savanna dusk, aiming to give visitors an immersive yet surreal experience, as if they were truly standing on the savanna plains. A large, round sun sinking below the horizon, clouds and double rainbows drifting gently across the twilight sky, and flocks of flamingos create a rich and varied landscape, while the many animals filling the great oasis and the wide savanna plains offer visitors plenty to discover.

Typologies
Media Contents
Media Architecture
Location
Incheon, Korea
Client
Hyundai Futurenet

​​​​​​​Synopsis

A savanna tinted by the blazing red of the sun. Between the heat of midday and the falling dusk, the sun slowly sets and everything turns red in the hour of twilight. In a savanna painted by the deepening sunset, visitors encounter a natural landscape rarely seen.

A cutaway layout of Aurora Street laid out as a savanna, with lions and a cheetah on the rocks, giraffes and baobab trees, an elephant and hippos in the oasis, flamingos and zebras at the water's edge, meerkats and buffalo, birds overhead and a round sun on the far wall
Environmental layout. A cross-section showing the horizon, oasis, and animals placed across the Aurora space at visitors' eye level.
A simulated rendering of Aurora Street, the ceiling covered in a red sunset sky, an elephant and her calf at the water beneath an acacia on the left pillar screen, elephants and a flock of flamingos at the water on the right, and the setting sun at the far end of the street
1. Simulated renderings. Different skies and animal arrangements, from a red sunset and a blue sky with pink clouds to a rain-swept sky and a golden dusk with a double rainbow.
A simulated rendering of Aurora Street, the ceiling filled with a blue sky and pink-tinged clouds, a cheetah resting on a branch overhead, a leopard draped over a branch on the right pillar screen, zebras grazing on the left, and visitors walking below
A simulated rendering of Aurora Street under a rain-swept sky, sunlight breaking through dark clouds, cheetahs perched on branches overhead and on the right pillar screen, zebras in the wet grassland on the left, and visitors walking below
A simulated rendering of Aurora Street, a double rainbow arching across a golden dusk sky streaked with violet clouds, an elephant and her calf at the water beneath a tree on the left pillar screen, elephants and flamingos at the water on the right, and the setting sun at the far end of the street

Pre-production

For African Savanna, the focus was on the vastness of the plains, the deep colors of the twilight sky, and animals that blend into the landscape as they spend the evening at ease. In pre-production, an environmental layout was first developed around visitors' eye level, based on the structural characteristics of Aurora's media. The horizon of the plains, terrain and vegetation that bring out perspective, and familiar wildlife were deliberately placed to convey the expanse of the savanna and let visitors read the space at a glance.

Production

In production, multiple on-site tests were carried out to check the environmental layout and animal animation, with particular focus on creating sunset colors that wash over the entire space. Over one minute, the colors move from a bright sunset tinged with bluish violet to a deep crimson as the sun sinks below the horizon. This shift in color was crafted to give African Savanna a palette of its own.

An orange sunset sky covers the arched ceiling of Aurora Street. A cheetah rests on a bare branch on the right pillar screen, a zebra appears on the narrow pillar beside it, and the sunset glow carries on past the bridge at the end of the street.
Aurora Street under a red sunset sky, with a flock of flamingos flying through towering crimson clouds on the ceiling, a zebra in tall grass on the left pillar screen, a big cat resting beneath a dead tree and meerkats on the far screens, and visitors moving through the street below

Credit

Client
Hyundai Futurenet
Location
INSPIRE Entertainment Resort 'Aurora' Street
Pre-Production
APOLLON IMMERSIVE WORKS
Production
APOLLON IMMERSIVE WORKS, LENNON STUDIOS, VA Corporation

Frequently Asked Questions

African Savanna is a Season 2 media art piece displayed on Aurora Street at Inspire Entertainment Resort. It depicts a savanna at twilight, tinted by the blazing red of the sun.
Apollon Immersive Works led pre-production for African Savanna and carried out production together with LENNON STUDIOS and VA Corporation. The client was Hyundai Futurenet.
Over one minute, the entire space of African Savanna shifts from a bright sunset tinged with bluish violet to a deep crimson as the sun sets below the horizon. A round sun, clouds, double rainbows, and flocks of flamingos fill the sky.
The environmental layout of African Savanna was built around visitors' eye level. Based on the structural characteristics of Aurora's media, the horizon of the plains, terrain and vegetation with depth, and familiar wildlife were deliberately placed.
Multiple on-site tests for African Savanna were used to check the environmental layout and animal animation. The work also focused on creating sunset colors that wash over the entire space.
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