Blue Sky Studios

==Blue Sky Studios==
Blue Sky Studios, or simply Blue Sky, is an American CGI-animation studio which specializes in high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. It is owned by 20th Century Fox and located in Greenwich, Connecticut. In addition to their feature-length animated films, including the Ice Age Film Series, Robots (2005), Horton Hears a Who!(2008), Rio (2011) Blue Sky has worked on many high-profile films, primarily in the integration of live-action with computer-generated animation.
Founded: 1987
Parent: 20th Century Fox
Website: www.BlueSky.com
#History
#Technology
#Filmography
===History===
1987–97 
Blue Sky was founded in February 1987 by Chris Wedge, Carl Ludwig, Dr. Eugene Troubetzkoy, Alison Brown, David Brown and Michael Ferraro, who had previously worked on the Disney film Tron while employed at MAGI/Synthavision.[3] Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, the studio concentrated on the production of television commercials and visual effects for film. Some of the more memorable commercials that Blue Sky worked on during this time period were a Chock Full O' Nuts spot with a talking coffee bean, and an intro for a Nickelodeon block called Nicktoons that featured the show's mascot, Nick Boy, realized as human-shaped orange goo. Using their proprietary animation pipeline, the studio produced over 200 spots for clients such as Chrysler, M&M/Mars, General Foods, Texaco, and the United States Marines.[4]
1997–present [edit]
In August 1997, 20th Century Fox's Los Angeles-based visual effects company, VIFX, acquired Blue Sky Studios to form a new visual effects and animation company.[5] The new company produced visual effects for films such as The X-Files, Blade, Armageddon, Titanic and Alien Resurrection.[6] In 1998, Chris Wedge realized long unfulfilled dreams and produced the Academy Award winning animated short film, Bunny. Due to the f/x market crash, Fox decided to leave visual effects business. In March 1999, they sold VIFX to another visual effects house, Rhythm & Hues Studios,[7] and considered selling Blue Sky next. At the time, the studio got the opportunity with the Ice Age script to turn it into a comedy. In 2002, Ice Age was released to a great critical and commercial success. The film got a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and established Blue Sky as the third studio, after Pixar and Dreamworks Animation, to launch a successful CGI franchise. On January 5, 2009, the studio moved from White Plains, New York to Greenwich, Connecticut.[9]
===Technology===
The studio is notable for its proprietary Renderer CGI Studio, a rendering software system like Pixar's RenderMan. Initially developed by Eugene Troubetzkoy, Carl Ludwig, Tom Bisogno and Michael Ferraro,[4] CGI Studio was notable for its use of ray tracing as opposed to REYES-like scanline rendering prevalent throughout the CG industry.
===Filmography===
Feature films
Released Films 
#	Movie 	Release Date 			
1	Ice Age 	March 15th 2002			
2	Robots 	March 11th 2005			
3	Ice Age 2: The Meltdown 	March 31st 2006			
4	Horton Hears A Who! 	March 14th 2008			
5	Ice Age 3: Dawn of Dinosaurs	July 1st 2009 			
6	Rio 	April 15th 2011			
7	Ice Age 4: Continent Drift 	July 13th 2012 			
Upcoming Movies
Movie 	Release Date
Epic 	May 24th 2013
Rio 2 	April 11th 2014
Peanuts 	November 6th 2015
Anbuis 	July 15th 2016
Ferdiand	April 7th 2017
Television Specials
Main Article: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
#	Title of Sort 	Relase Date
1	Bunny 	1998
2	Gone Nutty 	2002
3	Aunt Booty's Tour of Booty	2005
4	No time ofr Nuts 	2006
5	Surving Sid 	2008
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