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Blue Sky Studios
Established Date: Feb. 1, 1987
Deceased Date: April 9, 2021
- All
- animation
- Computer Animation
- Animation
- Blue Sky
- visual effects
- Tron
- software engineer
- pioneer
- director
- Short film
- 3D animation
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Blue Sky was founded in May of 1987 by six people. (in alphabetical order) Alison Brown (Administration), David Brown (President), Michael Ferraro (Systems Architect), Carl Ludwig (VP of R&D), Dr. Eugene Troubetskoy (Chief Scientist), and Chris Wedge (vice president of Creative Development). Other early key employees included Jan Carlee (Animation Director) and Tom Bisogno.
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Blue Sky's very first jobs included a recycling campaign for the Glass Institute of NY in 1988 and a film job for "Famous Players", a theater chain in Canada. That job featured procedurally generated skies, clouds, sunset and water with a glass logo.
Fun Fact! -
It was announced today, Feb 9th 2021, that Disney would be shuttering Blue Sky; Disney acquired BSS as part of their 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019. The final day of operation was April 9th, 2021.
Disney acquisition and closing -
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Ice Age: The Meltdown -
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Bunny (short film)
Fun Fact!
Blue Sky's very first jobs included a recycling campaign for the Glass Institute of NY in 1988 and a film job for "Famous Players", a theater chain in Canada. That job featured procedurally generated skies, clouds, sunset and water with a glass logo.
Disney acquisition and closing
It was announced today, Feb 9th 2021, that Disney would be shuttering Blue Sky; Disney acquired BSS as part of their 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019. The final day of operation was April 9th, 2021.
Blue Sky was founded in May of 1987 by six people. (in alphabetical order) Alison Brown (Administration), David Brown (President), Michael Ferraro (Systems Architect), Carl Ludwig (VP of R&D), Dr. Eugene Troubetskoy (Chief Scientist), and Chris Wedge (vice president of Creative Development). Other early key employees included Jan Carlee (Animation Director) and Tom Bisogno.