The Fall of Blue Sky Studios...

Blue Sky Studios is probably the biggest animation studio to no longer be with us. At one point, it was the THIRD biggest contender in the race! With only DreamWorks and Pixar as their rival, these guys had some of the biggest successes of the early-2000s. So what went wrong? What is the full history of the Ice Age Studio? And is it possible to pinpoint the company's eventual fate early? Was there a singular point, one mistake, that led the studio down to where it ended? Come see our video essay dissection of all things Blue Sky. This is The Fall of Blue Sky Studios...
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...Man, I just wish there was a Robot 2..

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

No matter what the cause or fate this studio heads into, the first three Ice Ages, Robots or Rio will always have a place in my heart. All classics in my eyes.

[@deathmetal271]

No Peanuts Movie?

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

@@deathmetal271 Never knew they made it TBH.

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

@@deathmetal271peak

[@CaptainCat101]

Disney had the audacity to shut down BlueSky but make more Ice Age projects after Nimona

[@SamPerry-f5g]

Ice Age 6 and also Rio 3 are coming

[@UltimateDragonX99999]

without blue sky :(

[@bensonjarvis5025]

@@SamPerry-f5g I’m not watching those movies unless BlueSky is reestablish and makes those movies

[@manoftheusajones5147]

On the Bright Side, Nimona was POPULAR!

[@BigLightning4360]

And as their swan song, even if the studio closed down?

[@Oscar95451]

Yep, for MGM

[@Scrat351]

@@manoftheusajones5147 yeah, but not popular and great compared to there real swan song that swan song is Ice Age: Scrat Tales!

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

Thank god Netflix rescued that movie

[@Princess_-gp3ep]

Nimona is very underrated.

[@SashaThomas954]

Blue Sky will never die. It may have its peaks and valleys, but it will always be a memory. My fondest memory of the studio was when I saw The Peanuts Movie in theaters in 2015 (same year Inside Out and Minions came out and I saw them in theaters also).

[@Scrat351]

speaking of which, why didn't he talk about The Peanuts Movie?

[@SashaThomas954]

@ he did briefly, But Copyright

[@toonitedytp4194]

One positive, Blue Sky Studios in a way brought The Amazing Digital Circus to life. With an animator, Kevin Temmer, eventually became lead animator for The Amazing Digital Circus.

[@desastrnarrations]

Oh wow that is a really fun fact! Like a phoenix rising from its ashes!

[@chobies5383]

Nah he's just GLITCH's general lead animator

[@SMario_SonicB]

Since 1987…. Wait a second, I have a theory 🐻

[@ewnot.sophie]

LMAO

[@Supercooldude-7]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@SashaThomas954]

A year after Pixar was born

[@chad9186]

My theory is that Ice age is a spin off of The Land Before Time because it was originally gonna be a Don Bluth movie

[@JaviSocas2My2ndChannel]

So it was The Land Before Times fault we had so many Ice Age Movies? But hey, that's just a Theory... A FILM THEORY!

[@genericfriend2568]

So, Magi were the creators of CGI, Synthavision Sampler was the first CGI animation, in 1974, so that means that (in some form) they lasted for nearly 50 years, minimum, and that makes me respect them more.

[@SamPerry-f5g]

Rest in peace Blue Sky Studios (1987-2021)

[@KaijuGameplayTv6592]

my childhood movie studio, the movies i grew up with was the ice age, Rio, robots, Horton, Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie to just the peanuts movie. that's all my childhood from blue sky I was born in 2007 maybe that's just nostalgia idk but I love these movies so much same for Rango, wall-e, coraline, and movie called 9. that I miss them, but from my tv movies that my tv shows is Rio, ice age, and that's it.

[@Orion_Mr.Starlight]

0:59 WAS THAT THE VFX SHOWCASE OF 87!?

[@europ_everi_nice]

I heard from somewhere that either in the last Ice age movie or in the Buck movie the scrat ate the acorn in a psot credit scene. Symbolically ending the franchise

[@emperortethysusdacertified8175]

Neither, it was a little animation that was posted on social media as a sort of farewell from the studio.

[@thecoolereraserii6082]

@@emperortethysusdacertified8175 Can anyone find a link? I really wanna see

[@jasimawwad9612]

You know, Disney is making Ice Age 6 without Blue Sky Studios, right?

[@superstitch5618]

Fox back then really liked to drag out their animated series/franchises quite a lot, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Ice Age, you name it. Also, those Chris Meledandri connections are quite funny in hindsight.

[@youraveragedrawer2690]

6:24 this unlocked a core memory for me bro, i used to watch that short film when i was 4 years old 😭

[@chad9186]

Blue Sky is such an underrated studio in my opinion but I think they ended on a good note with Spies in Disguise. I like the cop mom at the beginning. Sad that she died with no real explanation. And when it became Blue Sky's last movie and the only released under Disney, it made it even sadder. I think a cop that cool would go by Officer Wendy. Blue Sky is better than DreamWorks, fight me

[@SethLyons-wc3wd]

Sad, but Blue Sky Studios has lost their touch with Ice Age a long time ago.

[@HawkknightXC88]

Now Disney bears the torch of Ice Age now with rumors of Ice Age continuing.

[@superstitch5618]

@@HawkknightXC88 It’s no longer rumored, it’s now a fact that Disney will now continue the Ice Age movies, with an ACTUAL Ice Age 6 coming out in 2026.

[@bensonjarvis5025]

@@HawkknightXC88Disney made a short story of ice age and it was bad. This was after blue sky was shut down

[@DriverHenryWho3245]

Love the constant use of the Super Mario Maker 2 horror sound for stuff like Chris Meladandri. Very niche but I like it! 😊

[@cutelittlepuppi_]

Nowadays bluesky is known as the Twitter clone

[@Oscar95451]

And a good Twitter clone. Since X is now very toxic and lot of misinformation

[@cutelittlepuppi_]

@Oscar95451 although bluesky has no polls and gifs don't work on that site

[@Scrat351]

@@Oscar95451 really? Misinformation? Give an example of it!

[@deathmetal271]

@Oscar95451 so basically just more of the same

[@harleaarmstrong7659]

I feel like Ice Age should've ended with Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Continental Drift and Collision Course felt pretty forced out - I keep mixing those up with each other.

[@ewnot.sophie]

The ice age movies were so good until the fourth which was okay but boring, and the ones after that were kinda js plain😭

[@SashaThomas954]

A shame Rio 2 wasn’t great

[@ewnot.sophie]

@@SashaThomas954 trueee

[@JaviSocas2My2ndChannel]

Congrats Dazz! This is "What Runied Blue Sky Studios? Part 2" if it was continuing by Saberspark.

[@berengerdietiker22]

Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Rio were some of my favorite childhood animated films.

[@Azuli-Studios]

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs will always be near and dear to my heart. I also liked Ice Age 1 & 2, Rio 1 & 2, Epic, and Spies in Disguise. A great studio lost to time.

[@Dashiell777]

I think bluesky was going To stop Making ice age for a while. Because they had other movies coming out but then Disney destroy the studio

[@HawkknightXC88]

Since Disney brought out Blue Sky Studios now they have the torch of creating more Ice Age Movies the curse of why the Studio was shutdown in the first place.

[@AD-fl6vj]

Spies in the disguise was a great movie!!! I hope more watch it!!!

[@DariusRoman-p6x]

Wow, what a coincidence that you drop a new video on the same day the new Smurfs trailer dropped 😂

[@michaelm8852]

13:15 Every once in a while, I'll hear music from Friday Night Funkin'. Makes me want to get back into it again.

[@starz_mikou]

love the haircut, idk if its new but love it 0:11

[@shifazalatheef2235]

I dont think the ive heard the words blue sky studios i always thought of it as the iceage guys

[@SSYX336]

day 53 of every time dazz uploads asking him to review "Meet the robinsons"

[@LittleDarkLies]

The Good Dinasour tried to follow the same plot but they forgot to create half the cast

[@Lucky_9705]

Disney should have sold the IPs to Dreamworks or Sony and brought the workers over there instead of laying them off entirely

[@PinkNinjanerd]

I do agree that Ice Age should've stopped at Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It's my favorite of the trilogy, and the next few installments after it aren't all that great

[@liquor-pinata9770]

And ofcourse the slap to the face is that Disney is releasing Ice Age 6 December 2026 😂

[@BlueHair0]

13:14 DadBattle (Friday Night Funkin' OST Vol.1)

[@teamtaranaph]

HOLD UP 🔥🔥🔥 DISNEY IS MAKING A NEW ICE AGE MOVIE 6🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀

[@dashawnhines9612]

Hey love your videos and it gave me an idea for a video you could do it's just a thought but I heard Blue sky was working on a movie called the Anubis tapestry not sure if you already made a video on it but there's a lot of history behind this movie and its book PS I believe it's based on a book just wanted to bring that up before watching the video here and if you talk about it here then I guess that's egg on my face 😳

[@mintow544]

I just remember seeing the peanuts movie in 2015. I remember going to the pictures, I was 7 yrs old. Such a good studio ❤

[@Supercooldude-7]

0:59 The Downfall of 87

[@TheSpecialBuck2015]

Ice Age 4 has Louis.

[@WandererofArts456]

Hi, about cancelled movies there's one you might me curious at, *The Twits* (Conrad Vernon's version), made alongside working title and vanguard animation, with a stated budget of 50 millions dollars according to some fonts.

[@ScoutingAhead]

Whats the background tune are 12:20? It’s so familiar but can’t quite place it.

[@exotic2shoot942]

They made a good social media name in the end of it all...

[@BombasticTom492]

Sonic Heroes mentioned

[@P1n34ppl]

I love your videos your my favorite youtuber

[@tempest6027]

1:06 the studio was WHAT?

[@Justrenzoh]

after blue sky was being bought out by disney the last ice age films were legit terrible

[@generalhorse493]

Let’s not forget y’all that Blu is bestest boi

[@sparkbark7640]

Can't wait for: "The Fall of Disney Studios"!

[@silverchameleon8848]

This might put a target on my back but Ice age 4 was my favorite

[@KEERNG]

it's funny because there almost all good movies, like say what you want about continental drift but i think it's pretty good and enjoy it. Crazy to see they just slipped audience's minds and such and thats probably the reason they didnt stay for longer, real shame tbh

[@Arkoudo]

rio my beloved

[@Ludi_Chris]

They really where a one trick pony

[@Jaylin-c2u]

How dare youtube hide this from me for 50 seconds😠

[@andrewcavender8443]

I loved Horton Hears a Who when I was a kid

[@ricardosmuts]

This studio fall from the sky

[@蓝色小樽]

Will Spies In Disguise and Nimona get any sequels?

[@seafoamlupus]

i can’t take this seriously with the Danganronpa music in the background 😔✊

[@Leeutjie]

How is it going with Anthony, Ian??

[@lovelaceackah216]

It’s so sad that blue sky studios It’s sad we will never films like Anubis, Foster or even a X-men and fantastic four movies they could have made

[@ricktorres745]

You know it all made sense Fox didn't realize The reason they got purchased by disney back in late 2018! Was because of Chris Melendardri he was A Disney worker who worked on Cool Runnings that Olympic based Sport film!

[@Jmangamer14]

Bros probably making a smurfs vid reaction to the trailer rn 😂

[@SO_v-y2b]

Have you seen the new smurfs movie trailer?

[@StephenWanstall-b8s]

Hello dazz review if it's not a problem can you review dragon prince and promote the petition that is working to greenlight arc 3 of the dragon prince please.

[@coachcherokee1488]

They messed up with the fourth one

[@Dashiell777]

I don't think it was that bad. It's still had some moments. I liked it. The fifth ice age movie. What's absolutely pointless And didn't need to be made?

[@touhoutrash2436]

I really miss blue sky anyone?

[@circusbabyandfriends-ly9ct]

Cool Vid Dazz. Btw I'm Only Saying This In The Comment Cause Idk

[@dillonsukram9381]

What's your favorite Ice Age or Blue sky movie? I'm excited for Ice Age 6. My favorite is lce Age 3 for it's cinematography, animation and balanced characters. lce Age 1 is simple, funny and emotional and 2 has fun characters and action, they're 2nd and 3rd. lce age 5 is 4th, it looks the most beautiful and has heart buy having the characters together instead of seperate like in part 4. Diego, Sheera, Crash and Eddie felt sidelined in Ice Age 5. Ice Age 4 is 5th because even though it has fun moments like with granny, looks beautiful and has exhilarating action, the characters barely have arcs. Captain Gut was a fun villain though.

[@EliRobGaming]

3:30 portal 2 soundtrack

[@maryann533]

Dogman vid when...? 👀

[@FlubbedsodaGamingOfficial]

I have arrived in 18

[@ricktorres745]

Iutside the original blu sky 1.Spies In Disguise 2.Ron's Gone Wrong 3.Diary of a wimpy kid the Animated one and it' sequels 4.Ice Age Buck Wild Spinoff 5.Nimona!

[@rat7465]

danganronpa class trail music

[@ricktorres745]

P.s Don bluth was Originally behind The Idea of Ice Age! Hold the phone Joey king was the scientist in Horton 2008 okay i gonna say this this Film is the Introduction of His own Studio which will be known as Illumination Entertainment!

[@briannabeal788]

Camarion cartoon movie

[@Dashiell777]

I'm really like his video. But I don't think it's Ice Age that killed the studio I think it's Disney disney's always acquiring crap and shutting it down. Hack, they had a whole gaming division. They had and shutdown. Don't forget they had touched, Stone pictures? They shut it down. I believe it was in 2016. And now It looks like Hulu Might be going. too They just don't care about their products. If they don't know what to do😢 with them they'll just shut them down.

[@adilmyrat3210]

Dude, WTF is wrong with you? Why are you always freaking out everywhere?

[@TeruteruBozusama]

I always found the Ice Age character designs somewhat creepy so I avoided the whole franchise 😅

[@Tighemoloch]

yooooooooooooo

[@amberwilliams6999]

I love rio the dr.susses movie and rio 2 and the peanuts movie 🎬 🎞 spys in disguise 🥸