![]() During this period, we had been developing a script at Fox Animation called Ice Age. It was a beautiful test, but we could never crack the adaptation of the book’s story. We all agreed to take a section from his book, Santa Calls, and create a visual reel that combined storyboards, color and some rendered imagery. Bill and I had been exploring ideas and it struck me that this might be the right medium for his work. ![]() I introduced them to a brilliant author and illustrator named William Joyce. The more people I met at Blue Sky Studios, the more I was convinced that I had to find a way to collaborate with them. The characters had soul and the team had an uncanny ability to achieve realism with their caricatured designs. I was relatively new to animation and had even less knowledge about computer science, but loved the imagery they were creating. Among the founders were the boyish creative visionary Chris Wedge the 80-year-old nuclear physicist Eugene Troubetzkoy, who wrote the company’s proprietary rendering software and electrical engineer Carl Ludwig, who was rebuilding a Russian MIG fighter jet in his spare time. So I traveled to Harrison, NY and discovered a group of 40 people hunkered down in a loft space. In a move highly uncharacteristic for someone in Hollywood, John said that while he would love to take credit for the scenes, the real credit belonged to a small animation studio based in Westchester County, NY named Blue Sky Studios. I marveled at these cockroaches performing Busby Berkeley-like dance numbers. He shared scenes of dancing cockroaches from his upcoming MTV-produced film Joe’s Apartment. We were in production on Don Bluth’s Anastasia when a director named John Payson came in for a general meeting. It was 1996 and I was running the animation division at Fox. Hearing the sad news of the closing of Blue Sky Studios brings back the memories of our journey together. The Horton series (Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches the Egg) are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles.Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios, Fox's Once-Dominant Animation House Behind 'Ice Age' Franchise Horton Hears a Who is based on the book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. The executive producers are Audrey Geisel, Chris Wedge and Chris Meledandri, and the producer is Bob Gordon. The script adaptation is written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino will direct. To be released on March 14, 2008, Horton Hears a Who is from Twentieth Century Fox Animation's Blue Sky Studios. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and, despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. The animated film centers on an elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. The animated comedy will also feature the talents of Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehle, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly, and Jonah Hill. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, the new CG animated feature from Twentieth Century Fox Animation. Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett are among the voice cast of Dr. : Horton Hears a Who : Voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett star in Dr.
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