Blue Sky Studios/Summary

Background : Blue Sky Studios was founded in February 1987 by Chris Wedge, Carl Ludwig, and four other artists and technicians who had previously worked on the 1982 Disney film Tron while employed at MAGI/Synthavision. Blue Sky produced the famous Nicktoons Blob commercial bumper which aired on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1997. Blue Sky has also produced full-length animated movies beginning with Ice Age. Currently, Blue Sky Studios is a unit of 20th Century Fox and a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc. On January 5, 2009, the studio was moved from White Plains, New York to Greenwich, Connecticut. Blue Sky also animated 20th Century Fox's current logo for the studio's 75th anniversary.

1st Logo (1998)

Logo : On a black background, the words "Blue Sky Studios", in a white font, fade in, and "presents", in the same font, fades in under the words.

FX/SFX : The fading...

Cheesy Factor : ...which is WAY TOO simple for an animation studio, even for the time. It could have easily passed off for an in-credits logo.

Music/Sounds : The opening theme of the short.

Availability : Seen only on the short Bunny.  Scare Factor : None.

2nd Logo (2002?)

Nickname : "The Blue Paintstroke"

Logo : TBA

FX/SFX : TBA

Music/Sounds : TBA

Availability : Unknown. It is believed to come off a studio promo tape of Ice Age.

Scare Factor : TBA

3rd Logo (March 11, 2005-July 4, 2009) Nicknames : "The Blue Sky Shield", "Blue Sky Studios Outline"

Logo : On a plain blue background, we see a plain white shield with a blue outline rotating over the gray words "Blue Sky", in the same font as the previous logo. Then the word "studios", in plain white, fades in underneath. Sometimes, the background is plain white and "studios" is in grey.

Variant : A still version appears on the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs video game.

FX/SFX : The circle rotating, fading in of the word.

Music/Sounds : None or the opening theme of the movie.

Availability : Uncommon. Can be seen on Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, ''Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! and the 2-D version of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.

Scare Factor : None.

4th Logo (July 1, 2009-July 13, 2012) Nickname : "The Blue Sky Shield II"

Logo : Same as before, except that the words and outline zoom in slowly and have a drop shadow effect.

Variant : On Rio, the background is black and the text below the logo is white.

FX/SFX : The zooming in of the words and drop shadow effects, fading in of the word below the logo.

Music/Sounds : Same as the previous logo.

Availability : Common. Seen on the 3-D version of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio and I'ce Age': Continental Drift. Also seen at the end of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (TV airings only). Also appears on video games based on Blue Sky properties. It was last seen on trailers and some TV spots for Epic. Scare Factor : None.

5th logo (May 24, 2013- ) Logo : On a white background, we see Scrat from the Ice Age films hopping along a solid blue surface towards an acorn turned on its side. When he reaches the acorn and embraces it, the surface suddenly tips to the right, so Scrat runs to the left and closer to the screen, causing the surface to tip towards the left, becoming increasingly vertical. Scrat scrambles in vain to tip the surface back to the right, but ends up clinging to the vertical surface while his acorn falls off-screen. The camera then zooms out to reveal the vertical surface is the left side of the "B" in "Blue Sky" (the word "Blue" is in cyan while "Sky" is in dark blue), with "STUDIOS" seen below. Scrat then leaps from the "B" after his acorn, and dives off-screen.

Variant : On trailers, Scrat is holding on to the "B".

FX/SFX : Excellent CGI animation.

Music/Sounds : Just the sounds of the surface tipping back and forth, a "whoosh" noise as the camera zooms out, and Scrat making his little noises; he does his trademark scream at the end as he dives off-screen.

Availability : Brand new. Seen on Epic and Rio 2.

Scare Factor : None.