Creator / Blur Studio

Blur Studio is an animation studio established in the mid-1990s by Tim Miller. The studio's forte is creating trailers and opening cinematics for video games. Blur Studio has also done other projects, including its own short films, several TV commercials for Goldfish crackers and the opening for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

See also Digital Domain and Zoic Studios, two other companies that have done trailers and openings for video games.

Aside from the above, Blur's animation can be seen in:

• The short film: A Gentlemen's Duel
• The Amazing Spider-Man (Titles)
• The opening shots in Avatar
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Batman: Arkham City
• The opening to Big Time Rush
• BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite
• CarnEvil
• Dante's Inferno
• The opening to Dawn of War
• DC Universe Online
• Deadpool (Involved in almost everything, most prominently the opening credits but even the editor works there. Directed by founder Tim Miller. Further details here.)
• Deep Rising
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Escape from Horrorland
• Halo Wars
  • Halo Wars 2
• Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures (Season 2; done with Dream Quest Images, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digiscope and others)
• Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (cooperation)
• Love, Death & Robots (Production; Animation for 3 shorts)^List "Sonnie's Edge", "Suits", "ShapeShifters"
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance
• Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• The Simpsons Movie (Trailer CG only, Film animated by Film Roman, AKOM, Rough Draft Studios and CIS)
  • The Simpsons Ride (with Reel FX Creative Studios; Film Roman handled the queue sequences)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Film - co-producer)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) (Film - co-producer)
  • Shadow the Hedgehog
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• The Opening to Supah Ninjas
• Thor: The Dark World (Opening sequence)
• Transformers (2007): The Game
  • Transformers: War for Cybertron

In addition, they've done CG trailers for the following games:

• Atlas Reactor
• Batman: Arkham City
  • Batman: Arkham Origins
  • Batman: Arkham Knight
• BioShock 2
  • BioShock Infinite
• Dark Souls II
• DC Universe Online
• Dishonored
• Doom (2016)
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• Escape from Horrorland
• Fable III
• Far Cry 3
• The Force Unleashed II
• Guardians Of Middle Earth
• Halo 4
• Halo Wars
  • Halo Wars 2
• Injustice: Gods Among Us (Also used in menu)
• League of Legends
• Mafia III
• Star Wars: The Old Republic

Tropes Associated With Blur:

• Animation Bump: All the time.
• Development Hell: Their adaptation of The Goon only existed as a pitch trailer for 6 years, getting the green-light in 2019. Deadpool also started off here, but ultimately got made.
• What Could Have Been: Were one of the companies who "auditioned" to make BIONICLE: Mask of Light.

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