A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. A photograph from her wedding day is on her wall. But it is the ineffable life of Wedge's characters-their economy of movement, their expressiveness - that truly sets them apart. Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. Blue Sky has also created programs that rust the worn-down robots. The most important techniques are "ray tracing," in which light paths from virtual cameras inside the computer create realistic light effects, and "radiosity," the subtle reflection you get when you put a buttercup under your chin. That software, over the past thirteen years, has taken on brilliant idiosyncrasies, quirks that make Blue Sky's animation unique. Since then, Rodney has been gestating inside Blue Sky's software. He directed 2 other shorts over ten years earlier already, but his big breakthrough came with 'Bunny' and you may know him today because of his prolific work with the 'Ice Age' franchise.
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"When we started creating Robots," he says, "I thought, You know what? Our main character should be that motor - utilitarian, good-looking but not fancy, doesn't complain." 'Bunny' is a 1998 7-minute movie that won an Academy Award in the 'Best Animated Short Film' category. Wedge chose robots and thought back to an Evinrude motor from his grandfather's boat. Make that kind of money and you could do your next movie about wicker furniture. After that, he found himself in business with Fox making Ice Age, which was produced for a CGI-paltry $58 million and took in more than $800 million. Wedge's 1998 brainchild, a seven-minute short called Bunny, won him an Oscar. Blue Sky Studios a list of 25 titles created. It's based in White Plains, New York, with, at most, a third the employees of its competitors, but with equally, if not more, stunning effects. Academy Awards, USA 1999 Winner Oscar: Best Short Film, Animated Chris Wedge: Drama Short Film Festival 1999 Winner Special Prize for Animation: Chris Wedge. His company is the mom-and-pop version of Pixar (Finding Nemo) - well, as mom-and-pop as a multimillion-dollar animation studio can be. That robot - Rodney - was born in the mind of Chris Wedge, the droopy-eyed cofounder of Blue Sky Studios. can we use the word artistic when fast-food tie-ins are involved? Let's just say it'll look really fucking cool. And inside thousands of movie theaters, they will gaze upon a computer-animated robot so realistic, so visually innovative, so. They will wear overpriced turquoise robot Halloween costumes. They will slurp red liquids from plastic cups shaped like robots.
It was featured on the original 2-Disc Special Edition DVD release of Ice Age from 2002 and the 2006 'Super-Cool Edition' re-release to coincide with the release of Ice Age: The Meltdown. Some 11 th hour reshuffling let “Epic” stay at Blue Sky, but it reiterates the fact that he’s itchy to move on.JUST OVER a year from now, kids across America will have an obsession with robots. Bunny is a 1998 American computer-animated short film by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios. After Fox started to hem and haw about the project, Wedge briefly set it up at Pixar, a company run by Wedge’s old friend John Lasseter. Even “Epic,” his visually stunning animated feature released earlier this summer, almost wasn’t a Blue Sky movie. (Jesus.) Wedge has been wanting to do other projects for a while, though: in 2008, he was attached to direct what would eventually become “ Hugo,” and last year he signed on to do “ Cardboard” with Tobey Maguire‘s production company, an adaptation of a graphic novel by noted homophobe Doug TenNapel. Wedge, who got his start in computer animation as one of the original programmers on Disney‘s breakthrough “ Tron,” won an Academy Award in 1998 for his short film “ Bunny,” and soon co-founded Blue Sky Studios (currently housed in a nondescript office building in Greenwich, Connecticut) and began work on “Ice Age,” a movie that would spawn the 11 th highest grossing franchise of all time. Josh Cooley to Follow ‘Toy Story 4’ Oscar Win With Animated ‘Transformers’ Prequel
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