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The History of Blue Sky Studios (Part 3) | Animation Lookback (Patreon)

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2026-04-22 19:00:10
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As Blue Sky Studios was at their peak after Dawn of the Dinosaurs, our story continues as the two previous directors of the Ice Age films, Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, branch out to create familiar worlds, but seen in a whole new way with Epic and Rio respectively. At the same time, when moved to their new location in Greenwich, Connecticut, they brought Ice Age beyond a trilogy by bringing in pirates to plunger the herd in Continental Drift.

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Justin Grant

It does seem like this was the part of Blue Sky's history where they were really branching out with what they could do with their animation and storytelling and such. I remember enjoying Epic when I saw it some time ago, but I plan on rewatching it this evening to see how I would feel about it now. Also, first comment!!!

Hugo Segal

It was also during the early 2010s when Chris Wedge tried to branch out as a filmmaker independent of Blue Sky via his studio, WedgeWorks.

Hunter O'Laughlin

Sorry, I’m late to this, but I had a busy day today. Now that I’m home and able to see this, this definitely did not disappoint. Glad to see that Blu-Ray of Rio really came in handy to help you with the making of the film. Regardless of the quality of the writing, I do find Rio an underrated film and I hope really does find more appreciation as time goes on. Especially since this year would mark its 15th anniversary, and as you told me in answer to one of my questions in an episode of the new What’s in the Box? series, this film definitely can qualify in the nostalgia category. So hopefully there’ll be plenty of people who were kids when watched the film looking fondly on it. I was a teen when it came out, but I still have nostalgic memories of the film. Also, I know during the next part, we’re going to get into the studio’s worse sequels with Rio 2 and Ice Age: Collision Course, so the next part is definitely going to hyped. But on a brighter note, you’ll also look into another underrated film with The Peanuts Movie.

Kenneth Stoddard

My thoughts on part three of Blue Sky Studios movies: Rio: I actually saw Rio in theaters when I was on a school field trip and I thought it was good. It had beautiful animation, fun voice acting, decent music and songs, good characters, the world building and portrayal of Rio de Janeiro, and solid directing from Saldanha in wanting to bring his love for Brazil comes to life. The rest was so so with the story and writing but it a good movie overall. It sucks to see the real Spix’s macaws have become in real life however but I wish for the best for the birds to at least be protected and survive as I’m writing this. It is also nice that a rare animated film like Rio to have it take place in Brazil since no animated film has ever take place in Brazil especially it came out at the right time when Brazil was considered the go destination to visit, filmed locations at, and even have a World Cup there in 2014. Sure this country has went through up and down in terms of politics, but at least they’re free from dictatorship after what they went through in recent years especially movies like I’m Still Here and The Secret Agent have talked about those issues. For Rio, it a good fun movie that I think kids should get the idea of what Brazil looks like in a positive light upon seeing it for the first time. One more thing, since Jeff Garcia was in this movie as one of the henchmen, all I can say is rest in peace. Ice Age: Continental Drift: I didn’t see that movie when it came out in theaters but saw it on Blu-ray after getting the five movies collection for the first time right around what happened to the shut down of Blue Sky Studios. I thought it was a bad. This movie was definitely running out of steam as the formula was getting repetitive along with some unfunny gags except some moments with Scrat, too many characters especially when you bring in the Nicki Minaj and Drake in this which makes the movie aged poorly, weak writing, more inaccurate when you add climate change that led to what this planet has become, and dumb moments too. Yeah the animation looks good, some good voice acting including Peter Dinklage, and some action scenes too, but I started to feel fed up at this point. So yeah, I didn’t like but boy do I have a say about the fifth installment for Part Four of Blue Sky Studios history. Epic: I find this movie okay at best. I think I watched it on streaming like several years ago but I only watched it once and it fine. While I do forget that this is Blue Sky Studios’s second time to tackle on a William Joyce novel into an animated film, I don’t think I find it memorable compared to what they did with Robots or even what Disney did with Meets the Robinson. I get the ambitions with the animation and serious storytelling, I ended up walking away kinda forgettable due to the story, writing, and characters were weak and lackluster. Again, good animation along with some action scenes and the ambitious take they want to present but this movie just doesn’t work for me. I see this as Blue Sky’s underrated film since no one talk about this movie much in the veins of Ice Age, Rio, Peanuts Movie, and Horton for example after it came out and I for one would placed it in the middle of the ranking. It not good nor bad either, but it just fine at best. Besides that, Part Four will definitely take a turn to see the company in the mid 2010s of them tackling on Peanuts franchise while returning to old favorites which Ice Age 5 will later make company’s downfall not just with the Ice Age franchise but in general with them.