Our Next Movie Has Finally Been Announced: Rio!
From Variety:
Fox, Blue Sky drawn to ‘Rio’
Studio greenlights 3-D digital animated film
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Twentieth Century Fox Animation is heading south for its next bigscreen project from Blue Sky Studios.
Studio has greenlit the 3-D digital animated pic “Rio,” which centers on a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small-town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro.
To read the whole article click here.
Dude Challenge!
I’ll be participating in this bit of tom foolery… check it out should be fun. Click on the image above for the blog.
Fox Animation Soars Under Blue Sky
Low-profile studio stays afloat with ‘Ice Age’
The nondescript glass building at 44 South Broadway in the New York City suburb of White Plains doesn’t exactly look like an artists’ paradise.
Amidst the lawyers and insurance companies here, however, is an office that’s notable only for the cardboard cutout by the front door advertising “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.” Behind the doors are screening rooms, sculptures, posters, piercings, computers — all the details one would expect at a modern-day animation studio that employs about 300 people.
Still, for anyone who has visited the lush creative campuses of Pixar or DreamWorks Animation, it would be hard to believe that this is the home of one of Hollywood’s most successful animation houses.
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Animation world gets competitive Studios challenging Pixar for toon throne
-Variety
The world of feature animation — once thought to be the exclusive domain of Disney and DreamWorks — is getting increasingly competitive, as studios left outside the gates of the toon kingdom are employing aggressive tactics to break in.
With the successful bow of “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who,” Fox Animation reaffirms its place in the top tier, thanks to a string of hits from its Blue Sky CGI studio, capped by “Horton.”
The Tree House
I’ve been meaning to post some pictures of our work environment for some time. My bud and fellow treehouse member beat me to it. He has a cool post on his site about it. Click the pick below to go to his blog entry. I’ll post more about it later.
Blue Sky is Moving!
We will be moving to Greenwich, CT, about 10 miles up the road. But the new office space should be great. For starters we’ll all be on one floor instead of spread out over 3 like we are now. And with the brand new renovations that are being completed this year it should feel like a real studio.
Click here for the press release from Connecticut Governor Rell that went out this afternoon.
And here’s our new digs:
Ice Age 3 and Blue Sky Studios History
Box Office Prophet has posted a very cool article detailing some Blue Sky history, check it out, definitely an interesting read. Just click on Scrat below.
You Gotta Love’em
At the risk of embarrassing myself I thought I’d share a funny prank my work mates pulled on me yesterday, for my birthday. First thing in the morning they sent out the following email to the whole Blue Sky Animation department:
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In honor of Scott Carroll’s birthday, we’ve decided to combine selected songs from his ipod (these are seriously from his ipod….we went through it early this morning) into a beautiful tapestry of love-relations on one commemorative cd.
These precious gems, plus hundreds more (we didn’t have time to write them all because he walking to his desk) are available on this “once-in-a-lifetime” 10 disc collection.
Ten Thousand Maniacs: “These Are The Days”
Abba: “Fernando”
The Bacon Brothers: “Tuesday”
Bonnie Raitt: “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”
Dido: “My Lover’s Gone”
Dixie Chicks: “Cowboy Take Me Away”
Fantasia: “I Believe”
Fleetwood Mac: “Songbird”
Liz Phair: “Sweet”
Melissa Etheridge: “I’m The Only One”
Natalie Imbruglia: “Torn”
Nora Jones: “Nightingale”
Sarah McLachlan: “Angel”
Sheryl Crow: “The First Cut Is The Deepest”
Sinead O’Connor: “Someone To Watch Over Me”
Tori Amos: “Icicle”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCOTT!!!
- Love,
Your fellow “Lost Boys”
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I work with some great people who make me laugh all day…. even if it’s at my expense. I love it. I’ll explain the “Lost Boys” bit in a follow on post.
Blue Sky Animation Department
One of the sucky things about this business is from time to time you have to watch some of your team move on to other things. Last week we said goodbye to two awesome animators, Moonsung Lee and Royce Wesley. They are heading to the next phase in their careers and I wish them luck. However, sad occasions like this do give us a reason to take pictures of the animation crew here at Blue Sky currently working on Horton Hears a Who. So here’s a pic of all 40+ of us.
Blue Sky Studios Challenge
Check out this great blog that was started here at BS about a year ago. Every monday a new challenge is posted. The participants do their “take” on the subject matter and post it.
