Studium Joy

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they/them 🐝🏳️‍⚧️♾️ writer, artist, video person handcrafter of low-fi sci-fi-comedy quarter-hours & cartoons YOUTUBE @StudiumJoy NOW PLAYING: Coffee Cats ☕️🐈😹😸 COMING LATER: Cosmic Core 🍎

an adorable orange puppet cat with green collar smiles and flies towards camera plus "Coffee Cats" logo text.
Two cats run away from an aggressive mouse. They're all puppets.
Still frame from the 1985 classic Teen Wolf. It's a basketball game in the school gym; someone passes the ball to Michael J. Fox as werewolf. A handmade paper sign in the background reads, "BEAVERS ARE BEST!!" Gym mats are affixed to a door on the rightside of frame.
Handmade cat puppets in a DIY coffee shop set that has no distinctive set details indicating it's a coffee shop. There's an "employees only" forced perspective hallway on a painted backdrop. The set shakes slightly as the puppet's perform to reinforce the DIY aesthetic. At the end, two of the cats high five over their shared gender discoveries from playing the classic boardgame Pretty Kitty Princess.
Small production studio with a DIY built set for the audience of a comedy theatre. A Sony A7 III with 24-70mm lens points at set. A couple of monitors.
Medium shot of an in-progress build of a puppet reveal foam and visible seams. We see ears and a mouth on a head with a separated body. The background is a handpainted window view of a cartoon city.
Split photo. Top half is a screen shot of the folders containing: CofCats_Day01 through CofCats_Day14. Dates are listed as Dec 7 2024, Dec 15 2024, Jan 4 2025, Jan 18 2025, Feb 1 2025, Mar 15 2025, Mar 22 2025, Mar 29 2025, Apr 12 2025, Apr 26 2025, May 3 2025, and Today which is is May 10 2025. Bottom half is a split shot: Left side is a slightly blurry set with a hand popped up behind a table; Right side is a view of that shot on an ikan view finder. This is a reference frame from set, but I make a joke in the post about this being from an original UK version of Coffee Cats called Coffee Hands. In retrospect, Tea Hands would make more sense, but what'cha gonna do? Go back and edit the original post? Nah, that's not for me. Hey, thanks for reading this alt text and I hope it gave you a better understanding of the photo. P.S. The monitor also lists camera is set at a 1/50 shutter speed, F2.8 aperture, and 1250 ISO.
Cast & crew self-photo of Coffee cats. 10 humans smiling at the camera. Six of them are holding cat puppets. On the make-shift basement studio set of a puppet show. Hard to tell what the set is with all the folks standing in frame.
Low angle photo of a small desk hand made from mismatched scrap wood. It sits on top of a drop cloth. Plastic sheeting hang in the background, as this temporary woodshop was partitioned off from the rest of the studio. A couple saw horses lean against the wall in the background.
A recreation of Cold Fusion Comedy's ice cube mascot logo. Built out of styrofoam, paper mache, construction paper, glue, and top coat. A blue cube with two eyes cartoon looking in the upper right corner and a smile. It rests on top of a wooden apple box in front of a green screen.
Live action animated hybrid with humans on hand-drawn digital backgrounds. A non-binary watchermaker in a large cartoon building receives a package that contains their identical twin.
Line art of a window & doorway entrance to a coffee shop. Hand drawn with paint on a sheet and hung up on stands in a small black-box studio.
A behind-the-scenes look at a puppet shoot in front of a green screen. A puppeteer in a red cap holds up a cat puppet wearing a witch hat, while another polka-dotted puppet watches from the foreground. A camera monitor displays the puppet image against a green screen.
A non-binary news anchor in a beautiful floral dress stands in a white abstract background with hand drawn squiggly line & shape animations. They list segments on an upcoming fictional news show. Captions are baked into the video.