Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios, Inc. is a American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded in 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron, Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films. Its first feature, Ice Age, was released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox. It produced 20 feature films.
Blue Sky Studios is a subsidiary of Fox Animation Studios until its acquisition by SegaParamount, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. 
Ice Age and Rio are the studio's most commercially successful franchises, while Robots and Spies in Disguise were among its most critically praised films. Scrat, a character from Ice Age, is the studio's mascot.
==Filmography==
===Feature Films===
Title 	Release date 	Co-production with 	Distributor
Ice Age 	March 15, 2002 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Robots 	March 11, 2005 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Ice Age: The Meltdown 	March 31, 2006 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! 	March 14, 2008 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 	July 1, 2009 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Rio 	April 15, 2011 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Ice Age: Continental Drift 	July 13, 2012 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Epic 	May 24, 2013 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Rio 2 	April 11, 2014 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Ice Age: Collision Course 	July 22, 2016 	Fox Animation Studios	20th Century Fox
Ferdinand 	December 15, 2017	Fox Animation Studios
Davis Entertainment	20th Century Fox
Spies in Disguise 	December 25, 2019	Fox Animation Studios
Chernin Entertainment	Paramount Pictures
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild	January 28, 2022 	Fox Animation Studios	Paramount+
Ninoma 	June 30, 2023 	Fox Animation Studios
Vertigo Entertainment 
Annapurna Pictures	Paramount+
Upcoming Films 	Upcoming Films 	Upcoming Films 	Upcoming Films
Untitled seventh Ice Age film 	TBA 	Fox Animation Studios	Paramount Pictures
Untitled third Rio film 	TBA 	Fox Animation Studios	Paramount Pictures
===Television specials===
Title 	Release date 	Network
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas 	November 24, 2011	Fox
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade	March 20, 2016 	Fox
===Short films ===
Title 	Release date
Bunny 	November 2, 1998
Gone Nutty 	November 26, 2002
Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty 	September 27, 2005
No Time for Nuts 	November 21, 2006
Surviving Sid 	December 9, 2008
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up 	December 25, 2010
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2	December 16, 2011
Umbrellacorn 	July 26, 2013
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe 	November 6, 2015
Scrat: Spaced Out 	October 11, 2016
===Television series===
Title 	Release date 	Network
Ice Age: Scrat Tales	April 13, 2022	Disney+
===Contributions===
*Joe's Apartment (1996) – dancing and singing cockroaches
*Alien Resurrection (1997) – the aliens
*A Simple Wish (1997) – numerous characters and special effects
*Mouse Hunt (1997) – several mice and household effects
*Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – several alien creatures
*Jesus' Son (1999) – sacred heart, "liquid" glass, and screaming cotton ball effects
*Fight Club (1999) – the "sliding" penguin
*The Sopranos (2000) – the "talking fish" in the episode "Funhouse"
*Titan A.E. (2000) – 3D animation: creation of the new world in the final "Genesis" sequence
*Family Guy (2006) – Scrat's cameo in the episode "Sibling Rivalry"
*The Teenagers (2011) - Blu's cameo in the episode "Tropical Trouble"
===Commercials===
*Braun "The Last Word" (1992)
*Nicktoons "3-D Laughing Boy Open" (1993)
*Chock full o'Nuts "Complements / Weddings" (1993)
*Nestlé "Cookie Jar" (1993)
*Berry Berry Kix "Recliner Boy" (1994)
*M&M's "Celebrity Campaign" (1994)
*Brother "Glitches" (1994)
*Cheerios "Little O, Big Taste" (1995)
*Clamato "Skaters" (1995)
*Mopar (1996)
*Honey-Comb (1996)
*Bell Atlantic "The Big Deal" (1996)
*Pepsi "Swingers" (1996)
*Rayovac "Fierce Creatures / Super Stomper" (1997)
*Capri Sun "Waterspout" (1997)
*Mannington Floors "Mosaics" (1997)
*Hostess "The Last Doughnut" (1998)
*Tennent's Lager "Re-Incarnated" (1998)
*Mott's "Fruitsations" (1998)
*Target Toys "Big Adventure / Dog & Robota" (1998)
*Nature's Resource "St. John's Wort / Ginko / Echinacea" (1998)
*Blockbuster Video (1998)
*Starburst "Tunnel" (1999)
*Rice Krispies "Proud Parent" (1999)
*Cartoon Network "Ice Age: Frozen Fantasy Sweepstakes" (2002)