#studio tours

[tomoleary]

Terry Gilliam "Studio Tours" Painting Original Art (c. 1980s) Source

[zorilitaphotos]

The funniest part of the tour was when the tour guide mentioned that Ted Danson (The Good Place) and Woody Harrelson lost a bet and had to run naked through the Paramount Pictures lot. They, of course, stopped to sign their names in the wet cement and the word naked. Though they were wearing shoes. XD

[lvaartebella]

Friday Link Roundup: November 2, 2018

TONIGHT:

The Open Studio Weekend Juried Exhibition opens at the University of Louisville Hite Institute’s Cressman Center.

La Vida, la Muerte y el Amor (Life, Death and Love) opens at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Creature: A Puppet Frankenstein Adaptation has performances tonight and tomorrow at Suspend.

CirqueLouis: Gravity’s Varieties is up at The Kentucky Center for the Arts.

WEEKEND:

OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND is happening ALL OVER the Metro Louisville area.

ONGOING:

Kentucky Cup: A tradition of excellence in Art is a group exhibit opening at The Brown Hotel Gallery. Kathleen Loomis Day by Day by Day: adventures in regular art has a reception Sunday at Pyro Gallery. IU Southeast just opened a Faculty Exhibition at The Ogle Center. Tiffany Calvert: Semper Augustus is at Moreman Gallery.

Elsa Hansen Oldham "Muses" is at KMAC through January 27, 2019.

Monster Mash - A Graveyard Smash by Harrison Fogle is at Revelry Boutique & Gallery. This and That, It’s All Abstract: new work by Karen Terhune is at Kore Gallery in the Mellwood Art Center. Susan Toliver: Menagerie is open at Craft{s} Mercantile and Gallery When Elements Collide, new work from Casey McKinney, at The Pigment Gallery at Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center. Aleksandra Stone has a new solo exhibit, Fruits of Labor, at garner narrative.                

[zorilitaphotos]

Costumes and move props

[gjnnypotter]

Right, I went to the Harry Potter Studio Tours in Watford, London in October. So me and my sister walked into the Diagon Alley set, and I was just looking around in wonder. Then I saw a death eater standing completely still in a little alcove, I thought it was a costume stand. I pointed it out to my sister and she just smirked at me. I was wondering why she was smirking at me when all of a sudden, the death eater sprinted out of the alcove and charged towards me. I screamed and every single person in the vicinity looked at me and started laughing. My sister was crying with laughter and I was still in a state of shock.
But honestly, the death eaters at the tour were amazing. They were scary and they interacted with you.
So let that be a lesson if you ever visit the studio tours, the death eaters are willing to scare the death out of you, so don’t underestimate them.

[glitterati-tours]

This historic Paramount Studios in Hollywood offers studio tours which are 2 hours or more in duration. #LosAngelesTours

[dreamwreaver]

Studio Tours- A BATIM Drabble

A drabble based off something I saw while going through @doodledrawsthings Hell’s Studio AU stuff for the thirteen thousandth time. They said that Bendy was good with kids so I figured, why not make a story out of it? That being said it’s more a mini-fic than anything. It’s certainly shorter than the last two things I wrote for it. Hope you enjoy anyways!

If one went to Joey Drew Studios for a tour, one was in for a very special treat. The studio tour featured not only a guided exploration through the various departments, but at the very end there was an exclusive meet and greet with one of Joey Drew’s famous trio. The children were always the most excited about this part, and it generated a great deal of buzz during the summer months. If one had gone on the tour more than once, they began to notice a pattern arising. Mondays and Saturdays were when Alice Angel would come out, Sundays and Wednesdays were reserved for Boris, Tuesdays and Thursdays were when people were lucky enough to meet the star himself Bendy, and Fridays where when all three would come together.

Naturally Fridays were the most popular tour days, as kids could meet their favorite characters, and get autographs and pictures with them. The kids couldn’t believe they were there, the adults were impressed with the lifelike quality of their character actors and costumes. Though, that was because kids could believe a cartoon could exist in reality, so they saw the toons as the flat, two-dimensional creatures they had been created as. The adults, on the other hand, “knew” that cartoons couldn’t come to life, and saw those that appeared as people, three-dimensional beings, and nothing more than actors.

What visitors didn’t know, and for good reason, was that these “character actors” weren’t actors at all but the actual characters, brought to life through black magic by Joey Drew himself. Bendy had since become head animator and the one everyone went to for checking their frames. Boris aided the music department, and Alice floated around not tied down to any one part of the production process like her coworkers.

Of course, time passed and their popularity began to wane in the wake of newer creations, especially now that everything could be in color. Disney and the Warners were really giving them a run for their money. Though the tours generated a good portion of revenue that helped bolster production and the budget, they still needed to keep with the times if they had any hope of staying open. So new characters, new shows, new everything became the norm.

That didn’t mean the meet-and-greets with ended. Oh no, they kept up with those. One might even say they had increased them. Every character that was popular with Joey Drew Studios fans made a meet and greet appearance. But, since there were only three actual ink beings how was this accomplished? It wasn’t that more satanic rituals were performed and sacrifices made to bring them to life. Bendy had set a harsh “do it and you’re fired rule” down with that. No, the fact of the matter was that the three mascots for the studio were a part of the rubber-hose, squash-and-stretch type of toon. And being made entirely of ink didn’t limit them in the real world.

Whatever character needed to appear was squashed and stretched into being. Then, the department specializing in colorization would send someone down to paint them. True, they could have been colored with ink, but ink had some… adverse effects which weren’t appropriate for the family friendly gatherings. Paint, on the other hand, was for whatever reason and so they used it.

Aside from Alice, who had to portray any and all female characters for this show, Bendy and Boris would pick and choose who they would portray based on personality. Boris took the more kind-hearted ones, Bendy the wise-cracking know-it-all. It suited them well, and made them more money to add to the budget for making their productions.

What Bendy wouldn’t admit to anyone was that this was probably his favorite part of his job. He enjoyed making the cartoons, and whipping arrogant young animators into shape, but he loved, loved, loved making kids smile. Of course, that had been why Joey had first created him on paper; to make kids smile. It only figured that if there had been one trait carried over into the real world, it was that one.

He finished yet another session, pictures taken, autographs signed, memories made. The technology changed, but the behaviors the same. That awestruck look on those kids’ faces when he stepped out and greeted them… no matter what guise he was under it never got old. Of course, now he was behind schedule for the latest piece from the studio and he would likely be up all night trying to get it done, or at least at a place where there wasn’t much to be finished and there wasn’t much that could go wrong. Yeah… he was pulling another all-nighter. And yet, he thought to himself as he made his way back to his department, he couldn’t find any reason within himself to regret it.

[carolynmappleton]

Austin Studio Tour, November 2016 | To learn about the new operator of this program, follow the link to Almost Real Things.