Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
By day, the men and women of Blue Sky Studios animate blockbuster movies like ICE AGE, ROBOTS and HORTON HEARS A WHO! But the stories they tell in those films aren't their own; those they have saved for OUT OF PICTURE: ART FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN — VOLUME 1. This oversized, themeless, anything-goes anthology [...]
mackenzie art (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
It seems like it was only yesterday that I had the chance to make a book with my friends at Blue Sky Studios. It is hard to believe that we started working on the book that became "Out of Picture" four years ago. When I look at all of the projects that I've worked on, O.O.P. has a very special place in my heart. It reminds me of my first few months of living in New York, coming into a dynamic new creative...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Dice Tsutsumi works for Blue Sky Studios as a visual development/color key artist on their blockbuster film projects such as Ice Age, Robots and upcoming Horton Hears A Who.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Angstrom Technologies Corp. (OTCBB: ANGS), a green computing solutions company, announces today that Blue Sky Studios, a Fox(TM) Entertainment company has continued deployment of Angstrom Titan64 SuperBlade(TM) rendering blades for the creation of the hit animation movie "Horton Hears a Who." Angstrom blades are energy efficient computers powered by AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron(TM)...
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Book adaptation may be their way of moving out of the preschool demographic.
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Out of Picture Vol. 1Out of Picture Vol. 1: Art from the Outside Looking In Villard, 160 pages, $19.95 This book has actually been available in hardcover format for awhile; a self-published effort from a group of animators who worked together at Blue Sky Studios (responsible for the Ice Age movies among other things). I picked up [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Blue Sky Studios has made quite a formidable dent in the animation genre since they arrived on the scene in 2002. Their first big feature, Ice Age, was a huge success and they've since followed it up with two more Ice Age sequels, Robots, and Horton Hears a Who. Peter over at SlashFilm has picked [...]
Daily Titan (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The CGI animated film from Blue Sky Studios ("Ice Age") takes a different approach to one of Dr. Seuss' books. The live-action versions of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and "The Cat in the Hat" failed to honorably bring the books' illustrations to life.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Michael Knapp . He's working at Blue Sky Studios as the Art Director on the third Ice Age movie. He previously worked as a designer on the animated films Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Horton Hears A Who and spent a few months art directing the Academy Award nominated short No Time For Nuts. His work can be found in Spectrum 12 and 13 as well as the Society of Illustrators Annuals 48 and 49.
Animated News (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
CGSociety has an excellent in-depth article where they talk to the the crew at Blue Sky Studios who worked on Horton Hears a Who! to find out what went into creating the unique look of the Who-world and its characters. The piece delves into the programming of the Seussian logic of exaggeration required to get [...]
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs , to be fully produced in 3-D, is the third installment to the Ice Age franchise. This time around, dinosaurs burst onto the scene. Mammoth versus T-Rex? Someone seems to have their evolution upside down. Note to Fox and Blue Sky Studios: Dinosaurs come before the ice age, not afterward.
Frederator Studios (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Nick Bruno is an animator at Blue Sky Studios , the makers of hit movies including the Ice Age series, Robots and the recently released Horton Hears a Who . Bruno is responsible for a lot of the colorful animation found in Horton, as well as being one of the lead animators of the Whos. Aside from his work at Blue Sky, he is also a teacher at the online animation school Animation Mentor . Not to mention...
KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell in an adaptation of the beloved storybook about an elephant defending a microscopic community from destruction, "Horton Hears a Who" is the latest computer-animated film from Blue Sky Studios, the outfit behind the "Ice Age" flicks.
The Colour Plouffe (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Been a little busy with work lately. Heres something i just sketched out for fun this morning. On an other note, Go watch Horton hears a who!!! it looked really nice! I did some early Viz dev work on it for Blue Sky studios back in 2005 and also most recently painted all the bg's in the 2d sequence that House of Cool produced for it. Go check it out!
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Horton Hears a Who enjoys an energetic Friday, gathering in $13.3 million at the Friday box office . As Variety tells us : "Horton" posted the third best opening day for both a pre-summer animated pic and a Twentieth Century Fox-Blue Sky Studios production, ranking behind 2006's "Ice Age: Meltdown" ($21.8 million) and 2002's "Ice Age" ($13.5 million). "Horton" will likely follow a similar B.O. path...
