Blue Sky Studios
| Blue Sky Studios
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| legal form | subsidiary |
| founding | 1987 |
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Greenwich , Connecticut , United States
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| Branch | Movie |
| Website | blueskystudios.com |
Blue Sky Studios is a computer animation company that belongs to 20th Century Fox Animation and, since March 2019, also to the Walt Disney Company , which acquired the studio through the partial purchase of 21st Century Fox . Similar to Pixar Animation Studios , it specializes in animated cinema films.
The company was founded in 1987 and was based in New York City until January 2009 . In January the company relocated to Greenwich, Connecticut . The company employed 500 people in 2017.
Filmography
Blue Sky Studios had great successes with Ice Age , Robots and Ice Age 2 - Now is thawing . The company produced three short films that were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category. The film Bunny (1998) won the coveted award. The second short film was Scrat's new adventure with the character Scrat , from the two Ice Age films. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2003, but lost. The third short film with Scrat, No Time for Nuts , was nominated for an Oscar in 2007. Ice-Age Part 3 was released in early July 2009. Further sequels in the series followed.
Animation films
- 2002: Ice Age
- 2005: Robots
- 2006: Ice Age 2 - Now thawing (Ice Age: The Meltdown)
- 2008: Horton hears a who! (Horton Hears a Who!)
- 2009: Ice Age 3 (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
- 2011: Rio
- 2012: Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed (Ice Age: Continental Drift)
- 2013: Epic - Hidden Kingdom (Epic)
- 2014: Rio 2 - Jungle Fever (Rio 2)
- 2015: The Peanuts - the film (The Peanuts Movie)
- 2016: Ice Age - Collision Ahead! (Ice Age: Collision Course)
- 2017: Ferdinand - Go bullish! (Ferdinand)
- 2019: Spies Undercover (Spies in Disguise)
Short films
- 1998: Bunny
- 2003: Scrat's New Adventures (Gone Nutty)
- 2005: Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
- 2007: No Time for Nuts (No Time for Nuts)
- 2008: Surviving Sid
- 2013: Umbrellacorn
- 2015: Scrat-Tastrophe in space (Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe)
- 2016: Scrat: Spaced Out
- 2016: Ice Age: Raiders of the Lost Eggs
Participation (visual effects)
- 1996: Joe's Apartment - The Great Crawling (The Dancing, Singing Cockroaches)
- 1998: Star Trek: The Insurrection (The Aliens)
- 1999: Fight Club (The "sliding penguin")
- 1999: The Sopranos - Second Season (The "speaking fish")
- 2000: Titan AE
Web links
- Official website
- Blue Sky Studios in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ For $ 71 billion: Disney completes Fox acquisition. March 20, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020 .