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Blue Sky Studios
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Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Industry
- Visual effects Computer animation Motion pictures
- Predecessors
- MAGI Fox Animation Studios
- Founded
- February 22, 1987 ; , 39 years ago ( 1987-02-22 )
- Founders
- Chris Wedge Carl Ludwig Eugene Troubetzkoy Alison Brown David Brown Michael Ferraro
- Defunct
- April 10, 2021 ;, 5 years ago ( 2021-04-10 )
- Fate
- Closed
- Successor
- 20th Century Animation
- Headquarters
- Greenwich American Center, Greenwich, Connecticut , US
- Key people
- Robert Baird (co- president ) Andrew Millstein (co-president) Brian Keane ( COO )
- Products
- Animated films Animated shorts
- Number of employees
- 450 (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 .com )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film production company
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Chris Wedge
- Headquarters
- Greenwich
- Owned by
- The Walt Disney Company
- Parent organization
- Walt Disney Studios
- Industry
- film industry
- Legal form
- incorporation
- Official website
- www.blueskystudios.com
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- Commons category
- Blue Sky Studios
- inception
- 1987-02-22
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011168
- social media followers
- 35041
- location of formation
- Greenwich
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2021-04-07
- replaced by
- 20th Century Animation
- replaces
- Fox Animation Studios
- different from
- Bluesky
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation studio, which was based 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).
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue Sky Studios” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.