Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation studio, which was active from 1987 to 2021. Headquartered 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 due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations.

''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. Provided by Wikipedia