Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects, and traditionally computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, an acquired division of The Walt Disney Studios (making it the first and only Disney-owned animation studio not having films distributed under the Walt Disney Pictures banner). The studio was founded in 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after the company they worked in MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind the film Tron, that shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio had worked on visual effects for commercials and films before completely dedicating itself to animated film production in 2002 starting with the release of Ice Age by 20th Century Fox and ending in 2019 with the release of Spies in Disguise. Ice Age and Rio were the studio's most successful franchises, while Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, and The Peanuts Movie are its most critically praised films. Scrat, a character from the Ice Age films, was the studio's mascot.
Films[]
- Ice Age (2002)
- Robots (2005)
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
- Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
- Rio (2011)
- Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
- Epic (2013)
- Rio 2 (2014)
- The Peanuts Movie (2015)
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
- Ferdinand (2017)
- Spies in Disguise (2019)