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Quantums entertainment was first known as Blue Sky Studios until 1987 and later entered into a collaboration with 20th Century Fox production house. It was founded by V.Gopalakrishnan and Chris Wedge.It is a CGI-animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. In addition to their feature-length animated films, including Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Blue Sky has worked on many high-profile movies, primarily in the integration of live-action with computer-generated animation. As of Monday, January 5, 2009, the studio moved from White Plains, New York to Greenwich, Connecticut.

Board of Directors 1) Aswin Gopalakrishnan 2) Revathi Gopalakrishnan 3) Sean Wedge 4) Alison Wedge

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Technology 3 Filmography 3.1 Feature Films 3.2 Upcoming films 3.3 Short films 3.4 Contributions 4 See also 5 References 6 External links [edit]History

Blue Sky was founded in February, 1987 by a number of artists and technicians who had previously worked on the Disney film Tron while employed at MAGI/Synthavision. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, the studio concentrated on the production of television commercials and visual effects for film. Some of the more memorable commercials that Blue Sky worked on during this time period were a Chock Full O' Nuts spot with a talking coffee bean, and a series of IDs for the Nicktoons block that featured the channel's mascot, Nick Boy, realized as human-shaped orange goo. Using their proprietary animation pipeline, the studio produced over 200 spots for clients such as Chrysler, M&M/Mars, General Foods, Texaco, and the United States Marines.[1] After their acquisition by 20th Century Fox in 1997, Blue Sky was merged with Los Angeles-based VFX house, VIFX. Eventually, VIFX was sold to Rhythm & Hues Studios, and Blue Sky was re-purposed to focus solely on animated features. For 20th Century Fox's 75th anniversary, Blue Sky did a new 20th Century Fox logo for them with an extra searchlight and Palm trees. This logo was first seen on Avatar. [edit]Technology

The studio is notable for its proprietary Renderer CGI Studio. Initially developed by Eugene Troubetzkoy, Carl Ludwig, Tom Bisogno and Michael Ferraro[1], CGI Studio was notable for its use of ray tracing as opposed to REYES-like scanline rendering prevalent throughout the CG industry. [edit]Filmography

[edit]Feature Films Film	Release Date	Worldwide Gross	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic Ice Age	March 15, 2002	$383,257,136	77%[2]	60[3] Robots	March 11, 2005	$260,718,330	64%[4]	64[5] Ice Age: The Meltdown	March 31, 2006	$651,899,282	58%[6]	58[7] Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! March 14, 2008	$367,679,954	78%[8]	71[9] Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	July 1, 2009	$884,490,567	45%[10]	50[11] [edit]Upcoming films Rio (April 8, 2011)[12] Ice Age: Continental Drift (July 13, 2012)[13] The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs (TBA)[14] Spore (TBA)[15] [edit]Short films Bunny (1998, Academy Award winner) Gone Nutty (2002, Academy Award nominee) Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty (2005) No Time for Nuts (2006, Academy Award nominee) Surviving Sid (2008) [edit]Contributions Titan A.E. (2000) – the final "genesis" scene1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – numerous martial arts sequences Fight Club (1999) – the "sliding" penguin1 Jesus' Son (1999) – sacred heart, "liquid" glass, and screaming cotton ball effects The Sopranos (1999) – the "talking fish" Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – several alien creatures A Simple Wish (1997) – numerous characters and special effects Alien Resurrection (1997) – the aliens1 Joe's Apartment (1996) – dancing and singing cockroaches [edit]See also

Fox Animation Studios Chris Wedge Pixar DreamWorks Animation Walt Disney Animation Studios Sony Pictures Animation [edit]References

^ a b Ohmer, Susan. Ray Tracers: Blue Sky Studios. May 1, 1997. Accessed September 29, 2006. ^ Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Ice Age ^ Ice Age Metascore at Metacritic ^ Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Robots ^ Robots Metascore at Metacritic ^ Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Ice Age: The Meltdown ^ Ice Age: The Meltdown Metascore at Metacritic ^ Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! ^ Horton Hears a Who Metascore at Metacritic ^ Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinousaurs ^ Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Metascore at Metacritic ^ Blue Sky's next feature "Rio" on its way in April of 2011 ^ "Ice Age: Continental Drift Announced for 2012" ^ "Taking Aim at the Big Names in Animated Film" ^ "EA sets up 'Spore' at Fox" [edit]External links

Blue Sky Studios Blue Sky Studios at IMDB Blue Sky Studios at the Big Cartoon DataBase