Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio 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, 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. With a total of 17 feature films, it produced 13 feature films have distributed by 20th Century Studios, beginning with Ice Age in 2002. Its final feature film was Spies in Disguise in 2019. And now it produced 4 theatrical feature films have distributed by Buddy Studios, beginning with Ice Age: Portal Rift in 2022.

20th Century Studios distributed the films produced by Blue Sky Studios in theatrical markets, until its closure on April 10, 2021. On April 15, 2022, Buddy Studios distributed the films produced by Buddy Animation and Blue Sky Studios in theatrical markets alongside Buddy+ in streaming.

Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by Disney, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. In February 2021, Disney announced that Blue Sky would be shut down in April 2021 citing the economic impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on its business operations. The studio ceased all operations on April 10, 2021.

Ice Age and Rio were the studio's most commercially successful franchises, while Robots (2005), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), The Peanuts Movie (2015), and the aforementioned Spies in Disguise were among its most critically praised films. Scrat, a character from the Ice Age franchise, was the studio's mascot.

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Streaming films
Every streaming films has distributed by Buddy+.

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