“Ice Age” by Blue Sky Studios
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2001 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2001:


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