Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 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, shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. Its first feature, Ice Age, was released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox. It produced 13 feature films, the final one being Spies in Disguise, released on December 25, 2019.[7][8]
Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by Disney, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. In February 2021, Disney announced that Blue Sky would be shut down in April 2021 citing the economic impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on its business operations.[6][9] The studio ceased all operations on April 10, 2021.
Ice Age and Rio were the studio's most commercially successful franchises, while Robots (2005), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), The Peanuts Movie (2015), and Spies in Disguise were among its most critically praised films.[10] Scrat, a character from Ice Age, was the studio's mascot.
== Filmography ==
=== Feature films ===
* Ice Age (2002)
* Elysium (2003)
* Back to Gaya (2004)
* Robots (2005)
* Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
* The Ugly Duckling and Me! (2006)
* Alvin and the Chimpunks (2007)
* Dragon Hunters (2008)
* Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
* Alvin and the Chimpunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
* Birds of Paradise (2010)
* Rio (2011)
* Alvin and the Chimpunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
* Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
* Epic (2013)
* Rio 2 (2014)
* Strange Magic (2015)
* Alvin and the Chimpunks: The Road Chip (2015)
* Ice Age: Collision Course (2015)
* Ferdinand (2017)
* The Ugly Duckling and Me 2! (2018)
* Elliot the Littlest Reindeer (2018)
* The Jungle Beat Movie (2018)
* Candy's (2019)
* Spies in Disguise (2019)
* Dragon Rider (2020)
=== Upcoming films ===
* Skulls (2021)
* Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
* The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
* Dolphin Boy (2022)
* Candy's: Blue on the City (2022)
* Spies in Disguise: World Impossible (2024)
* Fresh Beat Band of Spies (2025)
* Asterix (2026)
* Rio 3 (2026)
* I Am Fish (2027)
* Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2028)