Blue Sky Studios is an American
computer animation film studio based in
Greenwich, Connecticut. The studio was founded in 1987 by Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, Chris Wedge and Eugene Troubetzkoy after the company they worked in, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind
Tron, shut down. Blue Sky Studios has been owned by
20th Century Fox since 1997. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio had worked on visual effects for commercials and films before completely dedicating itself to animated film production in 2002 with the release of
Ice Age. Of the studio's ten animated films to date,
Ice Age and
Rio are its most successful film franchises, and
The Peanuts Movie its most critically acclaimed film.