In bankruptcy? Disney closes one of its animation studios

It seems that unfortunately the health crisis is hitting the media conglomerate quite hard Walt Disney, As they recently announced that they have closed the doors of one of their animation studios.

It’s like this, Blue sky, Who is responsible for films such as “The Ice Age” and “River”, will unfortunately close its doors after 34 years.

The mouse company continues on its path of change and cleanliness within its preferences, as will soon happen with Fox TV channels, which will be renamed “Star”, and there are already commercials announcing .

And this time, the American media Deadline announced and confirmed that the Disney company will close Blue Sky Studios, former animation division of 20th Century Fox.

It is worth mentioning that the animation studio, founded in 1987, raised about $ 6 billion, produced a total of 13 films and won three Oscar nominations: The Era of Ice “(5 movies),” Robots “,” Horton and the Whose World “,” River “(2 movies),” Epic “,” Charlie Brown: Peanuts “,” Olé: The Journey of Ferdinand “and” Hidden Spies “.

And is that as reported by Deadline, since the purchase of Fox by Disney that Blue Sky hung from a wire, but its closure was delayed due to the pand3mia of the Cor0navirus, as with the closures of parks themed and cruise lines unfortunately lost money, and could not keep a third film animation studio, especially because of the current economic situation.

Unfortunately, the closure will affect a total of 450 workers who will be forced to leave their jobs next April.

It has also been reported that Disney will work with Greenwich-based studio employees to explore vacancies in other in-house studios of the company.

After much consideration and evaluation, we have made the difficult decision to close the filming operations at Blue Sky Studios, ”an official spokesman said.

However, Blue Sky’s library and intellectual property will remain part of Disney, even as the company no longer operates, and there are also rumors that other studios will absorb employees.

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In addition, they are working on a series of “Ice Age” for the streaming service Disney +, A saga that manages to raise more than $ 3.2 billion at the box office worldwide.

The truth is that the news does not take anyone by surprise, as from the outset it was assumed that Disney would end Blu Sky sooner or later and finally it has been the current situation that has led in the studio not to wait any longer.

On the other hand, Blue Sky Studios was a CGI animation studio specializing in computer-generated character animation based in Greenwich, Connecticut, owned by The Walt Disney Company, following the agreement reached on March 20. of 2019.

The studio was founded in 1987 by Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, Chris Wedge and Eugene Troubetzkoy, after the company for which they worked at MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron, close.

Through its internal rendering software, the studio had worked on visual effects for commercials and films before devoting itself entirely to the production of an animated film in 2002 with the release of Ice Age.

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Of ten studio films to date, Ice Age and River are his most successful franchises, and The Peanuts Movie his most critically acclaimed film, in fact Scratt (Ice Age) is the mascot of the company.