Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios, Inc. is an American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded in 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron, shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. Its first feature, Ice Age, was released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox. It produced 13 feature films, its most recent being Me and My Shadow, released on May 6, 2021.

Blue Sky Studios is a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Animation, part of Fox Studios, a division of 21st Century Fox. Its films are distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Contributions

 * Nickelodeon (1991) – Blob ident
 * Joe's Apartment (1996) – dancing and singing cockroaches
 * Alien Resurrection (1997) – the aliens
 * A Simple Wish (1997) – numerous characters and special effects
 * MouseHunt (1997) – several mice and household effects
 * Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – several alien creatures
 * Jesus' Son (1999) – sacred heart, "liquid" glass, and screaming cotton ball effects
 * Fight Club (1999) – the "sliding" penguin
 * The Sopranos (2000) – the "talking fish" in the episode "Funhouse"
 * Titan A.E. (2000) – 3D animation: creation of the new world in the final "Genesis" sequence