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Warren Sparks A Conversation
September 4, 2013 kicked off the SPARK Animation festival which was held in Vancouver, Canada. SPARK’s three-day conference brought together a wide variety of studios to share their extraordinary and unique work behind the scenes. Some of the larger studios included were Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Laika and Blue Sky. Our very own Warren Leonhardt was invited to speak at the conference and talk about developing the story and ensemble cast in EPIC. His talk included examples from story, design and animation.
Introducing: Umbrellacorn!
Blue Sky has done plenty of shorts over the years, but Umbrellacorn is unique (to say the least).
Unlike our usual productions, the short's creator, Stephen Neary, animated the whole thing himself. Stephen (a story artist on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Epic, and Rio 2) developed Umbrellacorn with Fox after winning our Pitchfest, and has been ...
Over the River and Through the Woods
The 33 mile drive north takes about 40 minutes and takes me across the Whitestone bridge and up the Hutchinson River Parkway. The drives are mostly non-eventful but occasionally you get to see a sad tractor trailer stuck under a low over-pass; the top of its crumpled trailer peeled open like sardines. 20 minutes into the drive and any semblance of the city with ...
Blue Sky forest