It’s a sunny afternoon in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood, but Pixel Planet Studios is dark. Shelves of tools and production equipment seem to cave in around Juliana Allchin, the face of Cleveland’s newest children’s YouTube show, Ms. Julie’s World . But when the spotlights flicker on, she’s the only thing in the room that matters.

Alongside Anthony Carabotta, the show’s video director and a co-founder of Pixel Planet Studios, Allchin is filming a music video for a salsa-inspired ABCs song. Her flowy red skirt pops against the green screen, which later becomes colorful visuals pioneered by the studio’s motion designer, Brandon Dohner, and animator, Eric Anderle. Allchin lip-syncs a track she produced alongside Mike Brown at Lava Room Studios in Independence.

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