Studio
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A studio is an artist's workroom, or an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of photography, cinematography, Animation, radio or television broadcasting or the making of music.
The etymology for the word "studio" is derived from the Italian word, from Latin studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal.
The French term for studio, atelier, in addition to designating an artist's studio is used to characterize the studio of a fashion designer. Atelier also has the connotation of being the home of an alchemist or wizard.
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[edit] Art Studio
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The studio of a successful artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as "from the workshop of..." or "studio of..." An art studio is sometimes called an atelier, especially in earlier eras.
Studio pottery is made by an individual potter working on his own in his studio, rather than in a ceramics manufactory.
The term atelier also refers to a printmaking studio, where master printmakers, work collaboratively with painters & sculpters who want to make limited editions of their art using printing presses, such as lithography, gravure and screen printing.
[edit] Software Studio
A software studio is a collection of software development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, PHPEdit, or Eclipse (software).
[edit] Production Studios
Production studios are those studios which act as centres for the production in any of the arts; alternatively they can also be the financial and commercial entity behind such endeavours.
[edit] Movie Studio
A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. This environment may be interior (sound stage), exterior (backlot) or both.
[edit] Animation Studio
Animation studios, like movie studios, may be production facilities, or financial entities. In some cases, especially in Anime they continue the tradition of a studio where a Master or group of talented individuals oversee the work of lesser artists and crafts persons in realising their vision.
[edit] Comics Studio
Artists, predominantly those producing comics, still employ small studios of staff to assist in the creation of a comic strip, comic book or graphic novel. In the early days of Dan Dare, Frank Hampson employed a number of staff at his studio to help with the production of the strip. Eddie Campbell is another creator who has assembled a small studio of colleagues to help him in his art, and the comic book industry of the United States has based its production methods upon the studio system employed at its beginnings.
[edit] Recording Studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording which generally consists of at least two rooms: the studio or live room, where the sound for the recording is created, and the control room, where the sound from the studio is recorded and manipulated. Recording studios are carefully designed so that they have good acoustics and that there is good isolation between the rooms.
[edit] Television Studio
A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the special requirements of television production. A professional television studio generally has several rooms, which are kept separate for noise and practicality reasons.
[edit] Radio Studio
A radio studio is a room in which a radio program or show is produced, either for live broadcast or for recording for a later broadcast. The room is soundproofed to avoid unwanted noise being mixed into the broadcast.
[edit] Photographic Studio
A photographic studio is both a workspace and a corporate body. As a workspace it provides space to take, develop, print and duplicate photographs.
[edit] Mastering Studio
An audio studio similar in some ways to a Recording Studio, but is dedicated to providing services for musical and/or video recordings after the initial, first/rough draft recording is complete, such as editing, mixing, post-production and mastering, to produce a finished version ready for replication or production.da:Studio de:Atelier es:Atelier fr:Atelier nl:Atelier ja:スタジオ pl:Atelier pt:Estúdio sl:Atelje fi:Studio
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