Blue Sky Studios
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry |
Computer animation Motion pictures |
| Founded | February 1987 |
| Founders |
Chris Wedge Carl Ludwig Eugene Troubetzkoy Alison Brown David Brown Michael Ferraro |
| Headquarters | Greenwich, Connecticut, United States |
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Key people
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Carlos Saldanha Chris Wedge Brian Keane (COO) Steve Martino |
| Owner | 21st Century Fox |
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Number of employees
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600 (2015) |
| Parent | 20th Century Fox |
| Website | www |
Blue Sky Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The studio was founded in 1987 by Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, Chris Wedge and Eugene Troubetzkoy after the company they worked in, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron (1982), shut down. Blue Sky Studios has been owned by 20th Century Fox since 1997. 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 with the release of Ice Age.
Ice Age and Rio are the studio's most successful franchises, while The Peanuts Movie is its most critically acclaimed film. Scrat, a character from the Ice Age films, is the studio's mascot.
In the late 1970s, Chris Wedge, then an undergraduate at Purchase College studying film, was employed by Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. (MAGI). MAGI was an early computer technology company which produced SynthaVision, a software application that could replicate the laws of physics to measure nuclear radiation rays for U.S. government contracts. At MAGI, Wedge met Eugene Troubetzkoy, who held a Ph.D in theoretical physics and was one of the first computer animators. Using his background in character animation, Wedge helped MAGI produce animation for television commercials, which eventually led to an offer from Walt Disney Productions to produce animation for the film Tron (1982). For Tron, MAGI hired Michael Ferraro, a systems architect, and Carl Ludwig, an electrical engineer. As MAGI's success began to decline, the company employed David Brown from CBS/Fox Video to be a marketing executive and Alison Brown to be a managing producer. After MAGI shut down, the six individuals—Wedge, Troubetzkoy, Ferraro, Ludwig, David Brown, and Alison Brown—founded Blue Sky Studios in February 1987 to continue their work in computer animation.
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