Austin Studios Gets a New Toy that Could Bring More Productions to Town

green.jpgWanna fight a dragon or bareback ride a nuclear missile into outer-space? Well, if you've got the money, Austin Studios now has the goods you need to fulfill your green screen fantasy. A new 40-by-20 foot blue screen wall has been added to Stage One at Austin Studios. The wall is composed of a curved screen incorporating floor and wall, thereby making it appear as one seamless unit.


Austin Studios' director of operations Rachel Blackney says, ""The wall is a great addition to our facility and will be a valuable asset to encourage productions to come to Austin."

The wall was left by the production teams who shot a children's educational video here in town. The video starred John Walsh of America's Most Wanted. (Here would be a good time to tell the little story about our friend working on an AMW shoot in Denver where a noticeably inebriated Walsh was publicly urinating behind a downtown building. Or it would be. You know, if we were catty and shit.)

Austin Studios has already played home to 60 productions, including Mike Judge's Idiocracy.

*Image (c) BlueAlgae on Flickr*

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Why bust on "a noticeably inebriated Walsh [who] was publicly urinating behind a downtown building."?


This describes some of my favorite Austinist contributors on most days of the week.

oh, not busting, ed. in the overused words of the fake rick james, "it's a celebration, bitches."

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