“Ice Age” by Blue Sky Studios


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  • ©Chris Wedge Blue Sky Studios

Conference:


  • SIGGRAPH 2001
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Title:


    Ice Age

Length:


    3:10

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • Blue Sky Studios

Description:


    “Ice Age” is a fully CCI-animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Set against the onslaught of the Ice Age, the story revolves around three characters: a woolly mammoth, a sabre-tooth tiger, and a giant sloth. Together, this unlikely group of characters take an unexpected passenger, an abandoned human baby, on a journey home. Blue Sky’s proprietary renderer, CGistudio, is featured. Rendering is done on Compaq Alpha render servers. AliaslWavefront’s Maya was used for model­ing and animation. Nothing Real’s Shake software was used for compositing.

Hardware:


    Compaq Alpha render servers

Software:


    Alias|Wavefront’s Maya, Nothing Real’s Shake software

Additional Contributors:


    Producers: LORI FORTE, JOHN DONKIN, Blue Sky Studios

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