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Fans were able to join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Phoenix Studios!
This was a great chance to learn about the studios. You get to hear from the people who create the shows you love and ask them any questions you have.
Whether you're interested in the shows, the team, or anything else, this was an event you didn't want to miss. It was also a great opportunity to meet other fans of Phoenix Studios games and make some new friends.
hello everyone and welcome to behind the
scenes of Phoenix Studios today I'll be
joined with four members that
are in the studio so let's
begin so I think it's probably best all
of you introduce yourself so let's start
with Cold how about you introduce yourself
and then yeah everyone
else well hello everybody my name is ColdShipp
I'm the founder of Phoenix Studios
and I'm in the producer of all of our
shows that we've been working on uh I've
been with the group since the beginning
and um yeah I'm really happy to be here
why doesn't um my good friend Crim go up
next what's going on y'all it's your the
host of the crimon ad show Crim memes
I'm here to present anything any
questions you have on Phoenix Studios
and I'm just going to give some insight
on our group I'm passing the mic to
batles what's up it's me B I've been
writing bits for most of the shows and
um basically I'm really
underappreciated any support would be
lovely um I'm passing the mic over to my
best friend
cookies oh hey it's me cookies um host
of The Superior show
subjectivity I think we the first
question noted noted so the first one
it's probably aimed at all of you but
likely to be cultured as the main person
um so what is seeo like what you do and
how B it
start all right well I'll let everybody
kind of give their in here but um
Phoenix Studios has gone through a lot
of different stages it's become very
different things over time mostly
because the cp's always been trying to
kind of find its footing kind of trying
to find what it wants to do uh Phoenix
Studio started a while ago back in I'd
say 2015 is when it kind of its first
iteration started up but we've been on
Roblox since 2018 we started with game
development and then I believe it was in
late 2021 where we decided to move over
to film making show Making and all that
stuff if anybody else wants to give kind
of their their input uh go right
ahead I'll go ahead and start us off so
um I joined Phoenix Studios a couple
years ago um by by complete accident and
um first at first I was um you know
making jokes and stuff I didn't take
anything seriously and I still don't but
at least this time I'm more well
respected
but point is this group is awesome I've
been with these guys for years and um
everyone here is a hard dedicated
worker
preach yeah um I I joined very recently
I'm like the newest out of everyone in
this
VC uh but like everything so far Phoenix
has just been great it
it's from what I see as it's just uh a
group where a bunch of guys can have fun
and post it on the
internet well personally right I've been
in Phoenix since 2020 and I've been I've
been I haven't really been active um in
it since like I guess a year or two ago
when I was offered a job by a coip here
but realistically working on this kind
of stuff and even like scrapping most
stuff I've worked on like mostly it's
not about the destination it's about the
journey right I've enjoyed being here
I've enjoyed
working okay um what would the main
reason for the group starting like how
did it begin from the very start the
cold begin it or was there an idea you
had
before uh should I take this one yeah go
ahead yeah right so um like I said
Phoenix Studios started back in 2015
um yeah I was kind of the one who
started it before but I did have some
help from other people uh a lot of
people will know you know the names um
Tamer stto he was one of the first ones
to joined me we've I've known Tamer
since we were little um since we were
like nine years old and it was around
that time when we said wouldn't it be
cool if we did like a little like a
group at first it was just with our
friends and we do like stuff on
Minecraft so we had like this Minecraft
server uh it was on medrock though it
wasn't nothing too serious because none
of us had computers at the time
uh but we we' make this Minecraft server
and we'd make these mini games and we
just play on it for fun uh I also had my
other friend David who I talked to still
but not as much but he was also one of
the first guys and then later on you
know I met some other members like like
Jory who's no prominent member of the
group uh like I said it was in 2018 when
we did to switch over to Roblox uh we
still very much had the idea planted on
our head go and make games and we there
was attempts but most of them well
didn't really work out that's why he
kind of shifted over to movie making
which is doing a lot better
for okay awesome so you said you do like
movie making and TV show Making what are
some like past examples of what projects
you've worked on and how did you go
up uh you want to take this one yeah of
course so the first show IA that we came
up with um I preached the code uh a
couple years ago it was basic off of a
parody of a well-known show I'm sure
some of you guys might know it um I let
you guys guess but we ended up making a
show based off that called the cription
ad show where me and a lifelong friend
of mine ad known him since I was like
four years old him and I are really
close we decided to make this show and
it was just going to be a completely
random just funny talk show like
completely based off of comedy and after
that we had a um show pitched called
baiton switch now this never made it to
the um this never made it to the lot
this never was published but it was
supposed to be a followup of the kryt ad
show so maybe in the future if we're not
as busy as we are now we might be able
to bring that back but we'll see but
another example of this you know the um
the inferior subjectivity show okay it's
it's a game show right and um yeah this
this cookies guy runs it he's um he's
the character
but well I going to say I will give him
the benefit of the doubt while I was on
his show I had a lot of
fun it was completely it was took the
random kind of prospects from my show
and
um you know kind of use that to um make
everything you know fit well with the um
a listing based questions so yeah that's
kind of the shows that we've been
working on and we have two show shows
planned for the future that maybe we'll
talk about more in just a minute here
yeah I think that the good thing about
the shows is the amount of diversity
they're getting um we had some scrap
projects because crimon at show was kind
of a flagship we we had it kind of
helming the group for a couple of months
I I want to say even a year and a half
maybe for the pitches started kind of
developing you like like Crim shed aen
switch was in the writing process um we
had a different show that kind of got
cancelled and this is the only time
you're going to hear me acknowledge it
uh now nowhere else will acknowledge the
show but we did have a show called
inside the
ride inside the ride you're never going
to hear me acknowledge this the show
again because I I hate it but uh it was
a show kind of because at the time I was
a player of this game called Theme Park
Tycoon 2 B into my existence but um I I
wanted to do a show with the community
there it didn't work out but I think
that's a good part of the shows you know
we've had a lot of ideas come and go
and some have worked out some haven't
some have kind of slowed down and some
just got the ACT immediately and that's
good I mean nobody starts off with a
full roster of these established shows
we've just now started building a roster
up it it taken us um a couple years and
now we have Crim Shad show and
subjectivity which are both becoming
like established shows and we have like
Crim Shad 2 shows coming up which um I
think we have one of the the hosts in
here as well so if he if he feels like
it he maybe bring it up uh but yeah
that's that's really the best part about
the shows you know the amount of
diversity uh the people that run them
it's
amazing
yeah
uh wait am I allowed to talk about the
the pitch I was given
earlier uh not not really I was more
referring to the Bal but if you want to
like talk about you
know subjectivity you can I'm sure
you're already to discuss that yeah it's
fine it's fine it's
fine okay awesome um so I guess the main
question really is how do you create the
TV shows so you said about you um
canceled some of them and some of them
are going that theme part Tycoon but how
do you create some of the new
ones right um that's a good question and
I'll I'll let some other guys talk about
this as well so I won't talk as much
here but um the way we work is I'm g go
to subjectivity for this one because
this is like the newest show it's fresh
off it premiered I believe earlier this
week it premiered uh the first episode
which is an awesome launch event since
people turned up and it's performing
really well so thank you to everybody
who's watched it who supported it uh
it's been a fantastic show so the way it
worked with subjectivity is subjectivity
was the first one where we kind of
developed the technology which is like
the cameras we have a camera system now
so what the cameraman can do is he can
just switch uh in between numbers one to
eight and there's different camera
angles I don't know if your question was
how they're made practically or if
you're more asking about the process but
practically wise um we do have like a
camera system and we have people who
edit them subjectivity was edited by two
people but um yeah that's kind of how we
do that's kind of how we did it with
subjectivity I don't know if anybody
else wants to talk about Crim not in
I'll CH in here because um you know from
the technical aspect of subjectivity
there um they were kind of like the
second coming of the of a show cuz our
the crypti ad show was kind of like the
first show we've ever made and um there
like if you look at the first episode
it's it's horrible in my opinion it's
like really low quality and not well
made when we've done with the corion Out
Show
we've tried to keep up that process of
um improving on each episode from
episode one so you'll notice episode two
while still not being the best of
quality it's better than episode one
episode 3 is better than episode two and
so on and so forth because we've learned
more about what we're doing and um we're
taking our time but essentially how we
film these um shows is we make a game on
Roblox Studio we script it we put any
assets that we need to into the and um
we start to form a process in which um
we plan out things and um just make it
happen so we record after we publish the
Roblox game we record there we use admin
commands and we use um remote events
that we have scripted into the game to
help make like um effects and lights and
you know just random stuff that we want
to happen just happen and I think that's
the glory of it because especially the
cryption ad show is not scripted so at
any time I could just say I can just
talk about whatever I want to and then
just a giant clock falls from the
ceiling or like the whole set casts on
fire you know it's just like I was talk
about earlier the randomness of the show
along with the fact that it's not
scripted makes it all kind of a lot
better for the
process
but yeah that's basically how we do a
lot of the um technical technological
stuff on the show yeah um the shows
themselves the sets themselves we have a
very small development team but wow it's
a really good team so Step Building wise
um I'm G to bir subjectivity here uh and
then I'll talk about Crim a team I'm
gonna kind of shout the people out here
subjectivities team was me uh Joy juki
which is our lead scriptor he's like the
main man of scripting and Phoenix he
does all the scripting all the remote
features he's the boss uh in that regard
and and then we have it's simply Zach
who built us the the amazing set that we
have for septicity which is looks
absolutely incredible so if he's here
still shout out to you then Crim show we
have a a bit of a bigger team because
it's got a bit bigger following um we
contributions from puffton from leis the
brave from enj as well we've received
contributions from Crim's helped on that
one as well um who also ad worked on it
uh Enrique V vilus I think is his
username vilus I think
enri enri vilus he's helped us out a ton
it's a bit it's a lot more of an
extensive um group but I think it's
mostly because Crim Shan show always has
like these like other it has these bits
that are film like quote unquote outside
so you know you got your street set you
got your um your restaurant set you got
um I'm trying to think what else set
steady set I already said Ste set we
just have a lot of like sets that are
outside of the building because of that
we do need some more hands to come in
and help out times uh and subjectivity
is a lot more minimal which is why it
has a smaller team but that doesn't take
away from how efficient and how amazing
of a job they
did cool okay so leading on to those
sort of questions I guess how do you do
a typical timeline so like how do you
plan out what TV shows you want to do do
you sort of plan idea together or how'
you go
it um I'll let B and Crim come in if
they want to but normally what happens
when we get a pitch is we normally hear
this guy we make like a group chat with
him and he kind of he or she gives us
their pitch and they we kind of hear the
out a little bit then we kind of discuss
about it on our own as far as the
timeline goes we normally don't want to
be working on more than two projects at
once because like I said our team is
very small we're always looking for help
but our team is small very small so
because of that we don't have a lot of
workload to handle more than two things
at once uh that's why crimon natur
sometimes takes a little bit more to get
done because it is a lot more of a the
episodes are a lot more complex they're
a lot more um like I said there's
multiple sets uh there's guests that we
have to bring in and we have to make
sure now something we're doing now is we
have to make sure the guests have no
clue what they're getting into so if we
bring a guest Into The crimon Ed Show we
have to make sure they've never watched
the show before so we can get some raw
genuine reaction from them which is a
whole other fence
soing in the show sorry yeah yeah sorry
I was just going to CH I was saying
that's what we look for in the show is
um people or actors who have never seen
the show or they have no idea what to
expect so we can get that genuine
reaction out of them besides just like a
um besides just someone who's been
through the routine a couple times
they're like you know they kind of fake
it a little bit like oh so crazy what's
going on what's going on why is the
clock falling from the roof that's why
we look someone who's like genuinely
terrified or like terrified it's it's
like confusion because you know they
come in here they expect like a real cuz
our set looks nice it looks like a real
talk show because we have like we have
the band off to the side which you guys
will see a lot more in in future
episodes because they haven't shown up
yet but they're there uh we have a lot
of new uh it's really professional and
then so they come on they expect this
like professional show and then we give
them something completely different and
that's where we get the best reactions
episode five I'm telling right now has
some of that and it's absolute gold um
yeah okay awesome so you said about the
timeline and how you sort of plan out
the ideas and Pitch them but what
inspires you to create them do you get
any ideas from anywhere or are they
completely
original so essentially for the ideas
and show
pict how we do that is we end up
just people will
submit give me one second here my
bad all right can you'all hear me
perfectly
fine yeah we hear you okay cool yeah
sorry my airpods just died okay
anyways how we do the um story pitches
is people will DM us or people who are
have ideas they will send us ideas or
maybe even people part of our own staff
team will come up with these show
pitches and to add onto what cold said
earlier we got we make a group chat
we'll discuss what can be done what
can't be done and the process and the
process varies depending on the show
because for example the cryption ad show
the it was filmed as our first show so
like I said we had no idea kind of what
we were doing from the start but we just
kind of went with it
but
essentially um the scription ad show was
filmed like episode and then we'd
publish that episode we'd make another
episode and publish it subjectivity was
filmed they filmed all of the episodes
um within a certain span of however long
it took and they're now uploading an
episode a week that's been
pre-recorded but um yeah that's just
kind of to answer the process question
um
for the um show pitch like I said people
give us ideas and we sometimes make
ideas of our own like bait and switch
was made by B he isn't a great story
writer he's been runting for Phoenix
Studios for very long
time realistically all of these ideas
come from um a little bit of inspiration
mixed
with mixed with a lot of work if if I
could show you you would see how much
passion truly went into the scripts of
um Bon switch because what it was meant
to be was a fully fleshed out show with
a world just built around it which sadly
didn't end up happening because of time
restraints the you know just different
problems finding people seems to be a
little bit a little bit difficult but
that's not really that's not really
something we should focus on with um new
shows coming out and uh you know in
general the group's expans as a whole if
you want to know more about how bits are
made on shows like subjectivity and um
Crim sh Show we really just brainstorm
there's not much else to it because I
can speak from experience here I've been
through I've been through most of these
episodes just um standing there and
trying my absolute best to um make these
shows and ideas come to
fruition yeah you want to add anything
where do you want me to go I think he
said all that there needs to be said I
mean bat has done a great job and the
only issue with baiton switch was just
like you said the time restraints and um
we also had a lack of budget and just
because the film Community right now is
so small on Roblox there's like
absolutely no one who was up for the job
besides their own team and as we've
mentioned several times um people we
don't have uh the biggest um team of
creators but get the job
done yeah
yeah um B has actually helped write a
lot of the questions and stuff for
subjectivity so like genuinely I think
that like he knows the most out of all
of us about how bits and stuff like that
are planned but like how the idea for
subjectivity came up it it was basically
just like oh uh I want to
I I want to make a game show but I want
to put my own little twist to it and I
mean I it's very similar with Crim Shad
I basically just stole crimon NAD and
then stole um Sor what's it called uh
Jeopardy and I mix them into one
yeah but like I I wouldn't say I stole I
would say I was inspired I just had the
same format as a similar format to
Jeopardy while like trying to my own
spin on
it thanks for your UT cookies that was
really cool thank you I'm gonna kill you
Crim okay so I guess the next question
is sort of what are the goals for the
future for the group do you have any
ideas in the future or what can other
people in the community do to try and
help
yeah so goals wise we have a couple now
the truth is this we don't know how long
Fenix is going to last but we do want to
like like said earlier at the beginning
of the pan ba and switch um and we have
a couple other shows we want to go back
to them we don't want to let them just
um fade away because we think they're
genuinely good ideas like B said
problems with the big shows is that we
didn't have a big team we didn't have
enough time that's where we're always
looking for new people in the team but
right now we just don't have the the
manpower to be able to handle these big
story driven animated shows but our hope
is to be able to go back to them you
know the scripts aren't gone the scripts
are there we have them and they're just
in stasis until we can go back to them
bring them back and do them Justice
justce they deserve so I guess really an
end goal that we have in mind is we just
want to be able to tell a bunch of
stories make a bunch of content in a few
years we can maybe look back on and kind
of Reminisce about cuz that's really
what Phoenix is about really Phoenix
isn't about you know making a big
Phoenix isn't about you know how much
profit we can make it's not about that
that's really not what we're looking for
in Phoenix what we're looking for is
just being able to
just make some good stuff that we really
enjoy that we can laugh at that we can
you know say you remember when we did
this remember when we did that that's
really the point of it because I could
right now I could I could go ahead and
say hey Crim remember when we were
dealing with that kid on episode five
and that had a terrible Wi-Fi we can
talk about that and that's kind of the
point about it that's kind of the
point
yeah okay so you said you aren't sure
how long the group would go on for is
there any way or anything people in the
community can do to try and sort of help
make the group go longer is there any
features you wish could be added into
Roblox or what do you think could
help honestly I think for the studos
community um a main demotivation for the
cription ad show is you know we take
such a long time to
um to make episodes because of our lack
of actors and usually we invite from the
Phoenix Studios Community to um be
background actors or just be on the
show and um yeah
he um a little bit more help from
Community would be great because as C
was saying earlier the kid with a bad
wi-fi people like that come in all the
time who can't listen to directions and
it makes the filming process go from
trying to film a f minute bit taking 30
minutes to filming a five minute bit
that's going to take the entire day and
that's why a lot of them process takes
so long because we just need people who
can actually you know understand what
we're trying to do
yeah um so we're always looking for
people what we would do back in the day
is um make mod apps or like Google
forarms but that's really the thing of
the past right now if someone walks up
to us and says I want to help you guys
out it's because they genuinely want to
help out so what are we looking for
we're looking for voice actors
background actors like Crim shed uh
developers we're in a good situation
with them but any help would be welcome
because we need set Builders all that
help would be amazing um and we're
always looking for it we know the our
community has them so what we're just
trying to do now is just we're trying to
get them to kind of come out a little
bit more kind of get involved a bit more
in what we do you know we've had a
member recently step up and Pitch this
the
show and um it's a really interesting
show idea we really want to help him
make it grow we offer to help him out
he's down for it so we're really excited
to see where this idea goes cuz uh
that's what we want to see really we
want to see people if people have an
idea we want to see them come up to us
and if they want our help we want to
Grant it to them to to make the story
come true well to regard cuz it is
Roblox okay so when you make all of your
games within Roblox are there any
features you're hoping to get added onto
like the platform in the future is there
anything like missing or anything like
that sorry so can read the question
again please yeah sure um are there any
features of Roblox like when you're
making a game that you wish could be
agit like any Roblox Studio
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features I am
not sure uh we we
normally have a lot of the features that
we need but if there's one thing I could
think of really that could really help
us out I guess
maybe I'm not sure actually I'm not I'm
trying to think of something that could
help us out I think
Limitless for me CU I work out a lot of
the sets and scripts for the crimon I
just organize Advantage a lot of the
stuff
um one thing is maybe a little bit of a
more advanced build system because um
you know a lot of that can be provided
through plugins like there's this one
plugin I've use on Roblox Studios that
helps a lot
but in general if they had um kind of
like
a
uh it's hard to describe but like a twin
tool to where you can um s like two
block like two parts at the same time
and scale them off of each other and
move them correspondingly and scale them
correspondingly off of a certain point
then that would be a lot more
useful personally I think I think the
design of um the UI is comfortable right
now but it could definitely use some
improvements I absolutely I did not
enjoyed the um the UI revamp as much as
other people did think they're just over
simple
bit yeah it's just like personally I've
been trying to learn scripting and I
feel like they've added more stuff to
make it un like more understandable but
realistically learning all of that from
scratch is kind of kind of difficult um
just in
general okay so oh yeah go for no no no
I yeah oh fair enough okay so earlier in
the Q&A you mentioned about the film
community and I was just wondering is
there any sort of improvements you hope
that could happen in the film Community
like do you want to get more people from
there or
yeah um I think that more help or at
least like because we I'm in a few like
Film Community servers and we have
people making these animations I think
that if people were more willing to help
out the smaller groups get started you
know I'm not saying you know join the
group and you know send your soul away
but I'm saying like help us out a little
bit cuz it's we're not alone here like
I'm in contact with a lot of like
smaller groups that are trying to you
know gather their stuff and kind of get
started but it's it's hard because it's
a it's a rare genre on Roblox and not a
lot of people do it you know people make
game shows people make talk shows but
what we're trying to do like I said
angle is to tell stories
shows films that are sty driven like B
is going to be that's really what we
want to do uh and what that's rare
Roblox the fact of the
matter okay fair enough so if I wanted
to be involved in Phoenix Studio what
would be the best way to join the group
or even be on a TV
show right so the best way if you want
to be on a show if you want to pitch a
show if you want to join the team or if
you just want to you know hang out with
us um obviously we have a lot of social
media uh we have social media yeah most
platforms we have a platform most
platforms have a platform sorry um the
best way you can do it is joining the
Roblox group we have our Communications
uh
there um so you can join our you can
check out our social media for there or
if you just search us up uh on social
media Phoenix Studios films you'll find
us there as
well
and I guess through the social media
they'll be able to sort of talk and be
able to work out through that yeah we're
very active on social media um
especially we have a lot of we have a
very active team checking it out uh our
staff's kind of met we have this account
that kind of our entire staff team
manages so you're always going to get an
answer very quickly
um we're also going to be at at Raa
which is this convention coming up uh
we're going to be there so all our
information is going to be there as well
so you can check us out you can learn
more about us you can take some cool
pictures and have a great time in in our
booth on the topic of rapper if anyone
wants to book for it it is also on the
Roblox events website um so s fre a book
for that and it'll be a good time to
meet all the different people in the
community and also meet the studio we're
talking
today yeah cool okay my questions unless
anyone wants to sort of give any more
information about
anything yeah yeah yeah subjectivity
episode 2 coming out this Wednesday at
6:45 EST go watch
it yeah all right is it gonna be as
tragic as last time no no no it's it'll
actually upload this time it won't
Cur oh few I just wiped the sweat off of
my
forehead
anyone videos they are also going to be
on their social media so you can find
all of the videos on the group and by
clicking on the Social Links through
there and yeah yeah um remember to watch
out for one maybe two new
shows coming up very soon maybe two
maybe extremely soon maybe two maybe two
maybe two maybe
two lot of the co coming up love it
awesome okay and on that note I think we
should probably end the event then if
that the questions we
have I think so yeah anyone else want
add anything just remember y all I'm got
one thing to
say tonight best Phoenix Studio show
ever you guys should go check it out if
you haven't already I'm the best
community manager of AR is and on that
note I want to thank all of you for
joining and yeah if any you if you have
any sort of goodbye notes you then yeah
um yeah thank you so much guys has been
aesome to come in the panel talk about
our our group it's awesome that we get
to come out more talk about what we do
more get more people to discover us it's
been an awesome opportunity so thank you
to Cedar for giving us the chance come
on and talk about our shows and stuff
yeah awesome okay bye
everyone all right goodbye yeah
yeah