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Once upon a time, there was a little studio called MAGI/Synthavision. In 1987, having completed some of the effects on the ground-breaking {{Disney}} film ''Film/{{Tron}}'' and some CG animation for commercials, an employee named Chris Wedge gathered a bunch of his co-workers and formed a studio of his own. They produced some effects for live-action films like ''Film/JoesApartment'', ''Film/FightClub'' and ''Film/AlienResurrection'', along with their first short film ''Bunny'', which Wedge directed. In the wake of the CG cartoon movement ({{Pixar}} had released ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' a year before ''Bunny'' was awarded Best Animated Short in the Oscars), the studio just happened to be bought by TwentiethCenturyFox to help fish them out of their failing 2-D feature animation unit. And the rest is [[IceAge prehistory]].

''IceAge'' (2002) was the film that made Blue Sky Studios a major competitor in the animated feature film industry, and they released around one new animated film every two years since. It also helped boost the morale in the pretty dismal Northeastern animation circle- they are the ''only feature animation studio in the Northeast'', having used to be located in White Plains, New York before moving under a mile across the state border into Greenwich, Connecticut [[MoneyDearBoy for the tax breaks.]] They are notable for being one of the first studios to use raytrace rendering in feature films. They are also known for using more naturalistic lighting design than other studios, depending completely on sculpture maquettes to create the 3D forms of their characters, and utilizing cartoon squash-and-stretch more frequently in their later features. Chris Wedge directed their first films, and continues to executive produce their later ones.

Now, the success of their future productions will be complicated in 2013 onward to a degree with rival Creator/DreamWorksAnimation joining TwentiethCenturyFox as its distributor as well, which will require a careful balancing of release dates and promotion efforts.

Not to be confused with the [[Fanfic/BlueSky Portal fanfiction of the same name]]. Also no relation to Blue Sky Software, the team who made, among many other things, the ''{{Vectorman}}'' series.
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!!Films made by Blue Sky Studios:
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' (2002)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' (2005)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge 2: The Meltdown'' (2006)
* ''Dr. Seuss's HortonHearsAWho'' (2008)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' (2009)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' (2011)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge: Continental Drift'' (2012)

!!Films in-production:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} 2'' (2014)
* ''Spore'', based on [[{{Spore}} the simulation game]]
* ''Charlie Brown'' (2015), based on the ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' comic by Charles Schulz
* ''Anubis'' (2016)
* ''Ferdinand'' (2017), based on the children's book ''Literature/TheStoryOfFerdinand''

* ''Charlie Brown'' (2015), based on the ''Peanuts'' comic by Charles Schulz

* ''Ferdinand'', based on the children's book ''Literature/TheStoryOfFerdinand'' (2017)

* ''The Story of Ferdinand'', based on the children's book ''Literature/TheStoryOfFerdinand''.

Once upon a time, there was a little studio called MAGI/Synthavision. In 1987, having completed some of the effects on the ground-breaking {{Disney}} film ''Film/{{Tron}}'' and some CG animation for commercials, an employee named Chris Wedge gathered a bunch of his co-workers and formed a studio of his own. They produced some effects for live-action films like ''Film/JoesApartment'', ''Film/FightClub'' and ''Film/AlienResurrection'', along with their first short film ''Bunny'', which Wedge directed. In the wake of the CG cartoon movement ({{Pixar}} had released ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' a year before ''Bunny'' was awarded Best Animated Short in the Oscars), the studio just happened to be bought by TwentiethCenturyFox to help fish them out of their failing 2-D feature animation unit. And the rest is [[IceAge prehistory]].

''IceAge'' (2002) was the film that made Blue Sky Studios a major competitor in the animated feature film industry, and they released around one new animated film every two years since. It also helped boost the morale in the pretty dismal Northeastern animation circle- they are the ''only feature animation studio in the Northeast'', having used to be located in White Plains, New York before moving under a mile across the state border into Greenwich, Connecticut [[MoneyDearBoy for the tax breaks.]] They are notable for being one of the first studios to use raytrace rendering in feature films. They are also known for using more naturalistic lighting design than other studios, depending completely on sculpture maquettes to create the 3D forms of their characters, and utilizing cartoon squash-and-stretch more frequently in their later features. Chris Wedge directed their first films, and continues to executive produce their later ones.

Now, the success of their future productions will be complicated in 2013 onward to a degree with rival Creator/DreamWorksAnimation joining TwentiethCenturyFox as its distributor as well, which will require a careful balancing of release dates and promotion efforts.

Not to be confused with the [[Fanfic/BlueSky Portal fanfiction of the same name]]. Also no relation to Blue Sky Software, the team who made, among many other things, the ''{{Vectorman}}'' series.
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!!Films made by Blue Sky Studios:
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' (2002)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' (2005)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge 2: The Meltdown'' (2006)
* ''Dr. Seuss's HortonHearsAWho'' (2008)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' (2009)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' (2011)
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge: Continental Drift'' (2012)

!!Films in-production:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} 2'' (2014)
* ''Spore'', based on [[{{Spore}} the simulation game]]
* ''The Story of Ferdinand'', based on the children's book ''Literature/TheStoryOfFerdinand''.
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Once upon a time, there was a little studio called MAGI/Synthavision. In 1987, having completed some of the effects on the ground-breaking {{Disney}} film ''{{Tron}}'' and some CG animation for commercials, an employee named Chris Wedge gathered a bunch of his co-workers and formed a studio of his own. They produced some effects for live-action films like ''Film/JoesApartment'', ''FightClub'' and ''AlienResurrection'', along with their first short film ''Bunny'', which Wedge directed. In the wake of the CG cartoon movement ({{Pixar}} had released ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' a year before ''Bunny'' was awarded Best Animated Short in the Oscars), the studio just happened to be bought by TwentiethCenturyFox to help fish them out of their failing 2-D feature animation unit. And the rest is [[IceAge prehistory]].

* ''The Story of Ferdinand'', based on the American folktale "Ferdinand the Bull"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{epic}}'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''

* ''WesternAnimation/epic'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''

* ''WesternAnimation/Epic'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''

* ''Epic'' (2013), based on WilliamJoyce's children's book ''The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs''

Once upon a time, there was a little studio called MAGI/Synthavision. In 1987, having completed some of the effects on the ground-breaking {{Disney}} film ''{{Tron}}'' and some CG animation for commercials, an employee named Chris Wedge gathered a bunch of his co-workers and formed a studio of his own. They produced some effects for live-action films like ''FightClub'' and ''AlienResurrection'', along with their first short film ''Bunny'', which Wedge directed. In the wake of the CG cartoon movement ({{Pixar}} had released ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' a year before ''Bunny'' was awarded Best Animated Short in the Oscars), the studio just happened to be bought by TwentiethCenturyFox to help fish them out of their failing 2-D feature animation unit. And the rest is [[IceAge prehistory]].

Now, the success of their future productions will be complicated in 2013 onward to a degree with rival DreamworksAnimation joining TwentiethCenturyFox as its distributor as well, which will require a careful balancing of release dates and promotion efforts.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Robots}}'' (2005)

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Rio}}'' (2011)

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Rio}} 2'' (2014)

Now, the success of their future productions will be complicated in 2013 onward to a degree with rival DreamworksAnimation joining TwentiethCenturyFox as its distributor as well, which will mean careful balancing of release dates and promotion efforts.

''IceAge'' (2002) was the film that made Blue Sky Studios a major competitor in the animated feature film industry, and they released around one new animated film every two years since. It also helped boost the morale in the pretty dismal Northeastern animation circle- they are the ''only feature animation studio in the Northeast'', having used to be located in White Plains, New York before moving under a mile across the state border into Greenwich, Connecticut [[MoneyDearBoy for the tax breaks.]] They are notable for being one of the first studios to use raytrace rendering in feature films. They are also known for using more naturalistic lighting design than other studios, depending completely on sculpture maquettes to create the 3D forms of their characters, and utilizing cartoon squash-and-stretch more frequently in their later features. Chris Wedge directed their first films, and continues to executive produce their later ones.

!!Films in-production:

* ''{{Robots}}'' (2005)
* ''IceAge 2: The Meltdown'' (2006)

* ''IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' (2009)
* ''Film/{{Rio}}'' (2011)

* ''Leafmen'' (2013)

Once upon a time, there was a little studio called MAGI/Synthavision. In 1987, having completed some of the effects on the ground-breaking {{Disney}} film ''{{Tron}}'' and some CG animation for commercials, an employee named Chris Wedge gathered a bunch of his co-workers and formed a studio of his own. They produced some effects for live-action films like ''FightClub'' and ''AlienResurrection'', along with their first short film ''Bunny'', which Wedge directed. In the wake of the CG cartoon movement ({{Pixar}} had released ''ABugsLife'' a year before ''Bunny'' was awarded Best Animated Short in the Oscars), the studio just happened to be bought by TwentiethCenturyFox to help fish them out of their failing 2-D feature animation unit. And the rest is [[IceAge prehistory]].

* ''IceAge'' (2002)

* ''{{Rio}}'' (2011)

* ''IceAge: Continental Drift'' (2012)

* ''Spore'', based on the simulation game

Not to be confused with the [[Fanfic/BlueSky Portal fanfiction of the same name]]

Not to be confused with the [[BlueSky Portal fanfiction of the same name]]