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6 unusual facts about Blue Sky Studios


Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky was founded in February 1987 by Chris Wedge, Carl Ludwig, Dr. Eugene Troubetzkoy, Alison Brown, David Brown and Michael Ferraro, who had previously worked on the Disney film Tron while employed at MAGI/Synthavision.

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.

Carlos Saldanha

Carlos Saldanha (born January 24, 1965) is a Brazilian director of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios.

Enrico Casarosa

Before joining Pixar, Casarosa also worked as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age and Robots.

Mike Thurmeier

Michael "Mike" Thurmeier is a Canadian-American animator and director at Blue Sky Studios.

Pierdavide Carone

The song was taken from the concept album dedicated to Rio, an 2011 animated film by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.


Paperman

In an interview with Animation World Network, director John Kahrs revealed that Paperman first materialized when he was working as an animator at Blue Sky Studios during the 1990s.


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