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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Predecessors | |
| Founded | February 22, 1987 |
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| Defunct | April 10, 2021 |
| Fate | Closed[1] |
| Successor | 20th Century Animation |
| Headquarters | Greenwich American Center , Greenwich, Connecticut U.S. |
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| Products | |
Number of employees | 450[6] (2021) |
| Parent | VIFX (1997–1999) 20th Century Animation (1999–2021) |
| Website | blueskystudios.com at the Wayback Machine (archived June 9, 2021) (now redirects to disney |
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation studio, which was active from 1987 to 2021. Headquartered 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, Mathematical Applications Group (MAGI), one of the visual effects studios behind Tron (1982), shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It produced 13 feature films, the first being Ice Age (2002), and the final one being Spies in Disguise (2019).[7][8]
Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. Disney closed down Blue Sky in April 2021 due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations.[6][9]
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 the aforementioned Spies in Disguise were among its most critically praised films.[10] Scrat, a character from the Ice Age franchise, was the studio's mascot.
- ^ Owusu, Tony. "Disney Closes Animator Blue Sky Studios Amid Cost Cuts". The Street. MSN. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
The move resulted from the losses the media group has posted amid the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
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