#mickey ralph

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Good Omens and the Tiled Sink

Remember the painstakingly recreated hand-painted tiled sink from the bookshop in s1? It burned in the fire and Mickey Ralph (Good Omens' graphic designer) lovingly painted a replica for s2. Wait, what's this??

It appears that they also used the sink in season 1 in the hospital, with a different surround! It shows up in room 4 (Dowling, above) and also in room 2 (nuns playing cards), and room 3 (Young):

These different "rooms" were probably all filmed on the same set, so they put the sink there and then left it for the various hospital scenes.

Here's a comparison of the tiles from Mickey's post, with the bookshop sink on the bottom left, and the pink hospital sink on the bottom right:

The sink might just be a cute little Easter egg/red herring, but it might also be a Chekhov's gun we haven't seen fired yet. Could this sink be important?? I'd love to know what you think!

With thanks as always to the @ineffable-detective-agency! Want more clues and metas? I have a huge collection from all over the fandom, here!

[amuseoffyre]

When I was trawling through pictures of the library used for Dalrymple's office, I noticed that there was a different painting from the one in the show. Looking a bit closer, the one in the show appeared to be a patient having a blood-letting by a doctor:

Because I'm a nosy old bean, I asked Mickey Ralph, one of the graphic design team, about it and she was kind enough to reply :)

So this is the full image of the painting that Mr. Dalrymple has above his fireplace. Speaks measures about him as a holier-than-thou playing-God character, doesn't it?

[born-this-way-16]

Why is no-one talking about the record covers from Maggie's Record Shop!? Mickey Ralph, graphic designer, you're my hero 😂😍

[pixiedust111]

Once upon a studio 🥺

[chaotictoon]

Glass Slipper

Cartoon Girl + cinderella glass slipper

[candylover123rd]

Rottmnt spoiler below

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The movie was amazing the facial expression throughout the film split my sides and the fight scene animation was breathtaking and I was happy that we got an explanation what og Casey was doing during the invasion.😍👍

[panderp123]

Embracing your inner child

So I treated myself to a very chill game. I needed a chill game so Disney Dreamlight Valley is so chill!

I love OW2 & many other games but we all need a little time to relax. Reconnect with your inner child.

I’m 32 and I honestly do not care anymore if people find it childish or whatever. I shouldn’t be embarrassed to enjoy the thing that shaped my childhood along with many others.

[bryanvegaslash]

Disney Platform Fighter "What If" Roster

[flipjack]

Foodie

[camdenleisurepirates]

This is an old article - from 2019! - and some of the things in it I knew already. But I'm still a sucker for behind the scenes interviews - and things like his comment about the crossroads.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

SFX Magazine Issue 372 - Designing Good Omens ❤ 😊

PRODUCTION DESIGNER MICHAEL RALPH REVEALS HOW THE SHOW’S CENTREPIECE SET, WHICKBER STREET, WAS GIVEN A DEVILISHLY CLEVER UPGRADE FOR THE SECOND SEASON

WORDS: DAVE GOLDER

Invisible Columns And Thin Walls “The new studio is Pyramid Studios in Bathgate – it used to be a furniture warehouse. And unfortunately – or fortunately, because I accept these things as not challenges but gifts – right down the middle of that studio are a series of upright columns. But you’ll never spot them on screen. I had to build them in and integrate them into the walls and still get the streets between them. And it worked.

“There’s all sorts of cheeky design values to those sets. Normally a set like this is double-skin. In other words, you do an interior wall and an exterior wall, with an airspace in between. But really, the only time a viewer notices that there’s that width is at the doors and the windows. So I cheated all that. I ended up with single walls everywhere. So the exterior wall is the interior wall, just painted. All I did was make the sash windows and entrances wider to give it some depth as you walked in.”

GOOD OMENS HAD A CHANGE of location for its second season, but hopefully you didn’t notice. Because Whickber Street in Soho upped sticks from an airfield in Hertfordshire to a furniture warehouse in Bathgate, Edinburgh. It’s the kind of nonsensical geographical shenanigans that could only make sense in the crazy world of film and TV, and production designer Michael Ralph was the man in charge of rebuilding and expanding the show’s vast central set. “I wish we could have built more in season one than we did,” says Ralph, whose previous work has included Primeval and Dickensian. “We built the ground floor of everything and the facades of all the shops. But we didn’t build anything higher than that, because we were out on an airfield in a very, very difficult terrain and weather conditions, so we really couldn’t go much higher. Visual effects created the upper levels.”

But with season two the set has gone to a whole other level… literally. “What happened was that the rest of the street became integrated into the series’s storyline,” explains Ralph. “So we needed a record shop, we needed a coffee shop that actually had an inside, we needed a magic shop, we needed the pub. To introduce those meant we had to change the street with a layout that works from a storylines point of view. In other words, things like someone standing at the counter in the record shop had to be able to eyeball somebody standing at the counter in the coffee shop. They had to be able to eyeball Aziraphale sitting in his office in the window of the bookshop. But the rest of it was a pleasure to do inside, because we could expand it and I could go up two storeys.”

For most of the set, which is around 80 metres long and 60 metres wide, the two storeys only applied to the shop frontages, but in the case of Aziraphale’s bookshop, it allowed Ralph to build the mezzanine level for real this time. According to Ralph it became one of the cast and crews’ favourite places to hang out during down time.

But while AZ Fell & Co has grown in height, it actually has a slightly smaller footprint because of the logistics of adapting it to the new studio.

“Everybody swore to me that no one would notice,” says Ralph wryly. “I walked onto it and instinctively knew there was a difference immediately, and they hated me for that. I have this innate sense about spatial awareness and an eye like a spirit level.

“It’s not a lot, though – I think we’ve lost maybe two and a half feet on the front wall internally. I think that there’s a couple of other smaller areas, but only I’d notice. So I can be really annoying to my guys, but only on those levels. Not on any other. They actually quite like me…”

Populating The Bookshop “The props in the new bookshop set were a flawless reproduction from the set decorator Bronwyn Franklin [who is also Ralph’s wife]. It was really the worst-case scenario after season one. She works off the concept art that I produce, but what she does is she adds so much more to the character of the set. She doesn’t buy anything she doesn’t love, or doesn’t fit the character.

“But the things she put a lot of work into finding for season one, they were pretty much one-offs. When we burnt the set down in the sixth episode, we lost a lot of props, many of which had been spotted and appreciated by the fans. So Bronwyn had to discover a new set decorating technique: forensic buying.

“She found it all – duplicates and replicas. It took ages. In that respect, the Covid delay was very helpful for Bron. There’s 7,000 books in there and there’s not one fake book. That’s mainly because… it’s a weird thing to say, but we wanted it to smell and feel like a bookshop to everybody that was in it, all the time.

“It affects everybody subliminally; it affects everybody’s performance – actors and crew – it raises the bar 15 to 20%. And the detail, you know… We love a lot of detail.”

(look at the description under this, they called him 'Azi' hehehehe :D <3)

Aziraphale’s Inspirational Correspondence “There’s not one single scrap of paper on Aziraphale’s desk that isn’t written specifically for Aziraphale. Every single piece is not just fodder that’s been shoved there, it has a purpose; it’s a letter of thanks, or an enquiry about a book or something.

“Michael Sheen is so submerged in his character he would get lost sitting at his own desk, reading his own correspondence between takes. I believe wholeheartedly that if you put that much care into every single piece of detail, on that desk and in that room, that everybody feels it, including the crew, and then they give that set the same respect it deserves.

“They also lift their game because they believe that they’re doing something of so much care and value. Really, it’s a domino effect of passion and care for what you’re producing.”

Alternative Music “My daughter Mickey is lead graphic designer [two of Ralph’s sons worked on the series too, one as a concept artist, the other in props]. They’re the ones that produced all of that handwritten work on the desk. She’s the one that took on the record shop and made up 80 band names so that we didn’t have to get copyright clearance from real bands. Then she produced records and sleeves that spanned 50, 60 years of their recordings, and all of the graphics on the walls.

“I remember Michael and Neil [Gaiman] getting lost following one band’s history on the wall, looking at their posters and albums desperately trying to find out whether they survived that emo period.”

It’s A Kind Of Magic One of the new shops in Whickber Street for season two was Will Goldstone’s Magic Shop, which is full of as many Easter eggs as off-the-shelf conjuring tricks, including a Matt Smith Doctor Who-style fez and a toy orang-utan that’s a nod to Discworld’s The Librarian. Ralph says that while the series is full of references to Gaiman, Pratchett and Doctor Who, Michael Sheen never complained about a lack of Masters Of Sex in-jokes. “He’d be the last person to make that sort of comment!”

Ralph also reveals that the magic shop counter was another one of his wife’s purchases, bought at a Glasgow reclamation yard.

The Anansi Boys Connection Ralph reveals that Good Omens season two used the state-of-the-art special effects tech Volume (famous for its use in The Mandalorian to create virtual backdrops) for just one sequence, but he will be using it extensively elsewhere on another Gaiman TV series being made for Prime Video.

“We used Volume on the opening sequence to create the creation of the universe. I was designing Anansi Boys in duality with this project, which seems an outrageously suicidal thing to do. But it was fantastic and Anansi Boys was all on Volume. So I designed for Volume on one show and not Volume on the other. The complexities and the psychology of both is different.”

[embracing-the-ineffable]

In Nightmare in Silver, Neil Gaiman wrote a sort of "Doctor vs Doctor" story arc, and left me wondering whether we'll see anything similar in Good Omens season 3...?

(gifs credit to @dwgif)

Crowley can stop time, after all. Can he also travel through time? What happens if he meets himself along the way? We still don't have an explanation for these twin Crowley dolls (post by @noneorother) standing on either side of God, and Neil just reshared the post from Mickey Ralph about how unsettling everyone found these dolls. Is he trying to draw our attention back to them?How important is this Clue, among the thousands of clues scattered everywhere?

Look, too, at the way they used a red vs blue background to help differentiate the two versions of the Doctor in Nightmare in Silver (above). That's familiar, too, although with Gabriel, this time:

This is all going to make sense ... eventually 😅 Until then, I'd love to hear your theories!

[flickynightdarkness]

Disney Comfort Characters List

Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse (Mickey & Friends)

Lilo, Stitch & Angel (Lilo & Stitch)

Snow White (Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

Faline (Bambi)

Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Hades (Hercules)

Jafar & Iago (Aladdin)

XR & NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)

Claude Frollo (Hunchback Of Notre Dame)

Felix & King Candy (Wreck It Ralph)

Mirabel Madrigal & Pepa Madrigal (Encanto)

Pixar Comfort Characters List

Slinky Dog, Jessie, Trixie & Bonnie (Toy Story)

Wall-E & EVE (Wall-E)

Sulley, Mike & Boo (Monsters Inc)

Giulia (Luca)

Meilin Lee & Abby Park (Turning Red)

[of-fear-and-love]

Jackie Gleason in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

[katlimeart]

Made in 2017 + 2018

If you’ve seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.

Mario girls cosplaying as Disney girls

1. Queenie Bee (Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers) - requested by flutterbunny76

2. Sylvia Marpole (An Extremely Goofy Movie) - requested by flutterbunny76

3 + 4. Minnie Mouse (House of Mouse: Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation/New Mickey Mouse Shorts) - requested by danfrandes and flutterbunny76

5. Sergeant Calhoun (Wreck-It Ralph) - requested by yoshihorse

6. Clarabelle Cow (House of Mouse: Ladies Night) - requested by danfrandes

7. Pearl (The Little Mermaid TV show) - requested by danfrandes

8. Yzma (Emperor’s New School) - requested by danfrandes

9. Belly Dancing Marionette (Pinocchio) - requested by danfrandes

10. Genie - Harem Girl (Aladdin) - requested by danfrandes