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>> I am standing here inside Nickelodeon's brand new West Coast headquarters where
some of the biggest hits and kids TV are created. Let's take a look.
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Welcome to Hollywood HQ, I'm Tom Kenny voice of Spongebob Squarepants (Wow),
Gary, his snail and lots of other Nickelodeon characters. I am so so excited to be your
tour guide of this brand-new and oh so fabulous building.
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>> The challenge that was given to us was to create something that would inspire people.
Creativity is something that you just you don't sit down and you're like "I'm going to be creative."
right, it sort of happens almost like at the moment. So for us it was to
create different spaces that will allow that sort of creative moment to occur.
>> Early on they called us into one of their big design meetings and asked us
creators and artists what would make a good working environment and we had
lists of things. I don't think they expected as many but as I came into it
and said this is what we need and this is what we'd like, and it's surprising to
see how many of those things can actually came to fruition and then also
we're mixed in to a really fun design for a building.
>> I love this building. This building is like a giant daycare center for adults. There's a lot of areas for
collaboration, there's a lot of creative shareable spaces, lots of tables, lots of
lounge areas, lots of conference rooms and there's a great cafeteria downstairs
they built for us with this really cool coffee shop, which is really awesome.
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>> This is a makers lab. These rooms are set up on all floors. This particular lab is
traditional materials. This is a safe place to come and work where we could
throw paint around and make a big mess.
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>> We've always been a creator driven studio. So we really believe in people.
We really thought about the in the new
building in a new space how to make it possible for artists, writers,
technologists to find each other and to collaborate and create great projects.
A lot of the stuff that we're doing here with new technology we wanted to make
that accessible to a lot of the great creative people that we've been working with forever.
>> You and I are here in the Nickelodeon Animation Lab exploring
virtual reality. Woah, Spongebob, slime.. slime.. slime.. slime.
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Wow, these things are all over the place. I'm not sure what you call them, but they're really fun.
>> I really like that we have a screening room. It's got 88 seats it's very cool.
They have the Nick logo down there in the lobby, love that.
Right now, it's still early. People are still decorating things to
kind of fit their own style. Some of the people on Loud House, have some really cool creative areas down there.
>> Just by walking to the kitchen you're going to
run into a chart man and in the hall and chat with them and maybe talk about what
we're up to and it kind of keeps us up to date and what everyone else is doing.
>> and cross-pollination of ideas too.
>> Always ideas, always making sure that our show
is better than the other shows. >> (laughs) You guys are so competitive.
Is there one aspect of the building that makes Chris Savino happy?
On each floor they put not only the cubicle walls are dry erase boards and magnetic, but also
some of the walls are chalking and one thing that we naturally do is draw on
the walls. We've been doing that since we were kids and we just naturally will
pick up a piece of chalk or pickup a marker and draw. And you never know
what's going to come out of it. Nickelodeon celebrates kids but at
Nickelodeon Animation Studios like they celebrate the artist. There's nothing
truer than seeing that kind of expression being allowed to be put on
the walls. I don't know, what do you think Tom?
>> It needs a little work. It needs a little work. I think this is where you want to go. This is the design.
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>> We wanted to use color as a way to really sort of like activate space.
To make it an area where you could think, excited and I think that's where the
element of fun comes to be.
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>> Nickelodeon has been around for 37 years and has built a diverse global business
by putting kids first, and for me it's home. It's always been a cool place to
work, but now it's insanely cool. We'll see you next time on Hollywood HQ
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