Blue Sky Studios CGI work on Alien: Resurrection began a long and fruitful relationship with 20th Century Fox…
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Alien: Resurrectionwas Blue Skys first gig from 20thCentury Fox.
We didnt have any investors, we were building on revenue, so we did television commercials.
Thats how Fox got to know about us.
We did some movies for them.
Its an historic computer!
laughs Jean-Jacques Launier, founder and president of the Musee Ludique.
he laughs) was born.
When we started Blue Sky, the industry was very young.
VFX is a very tough business.
For him, that pride came from character animation rather than CG graphics.
That reputation-building paid off when MTV decided to develop its 1992 live-action-stop-motion shortJoes Apartmentinto a 1996 feature film.
That success was the calling card Blue Sky needed to break into CGI work for Hollywood.
The huge financial losses brought about byTitan: A.E.
(around $100 millionaccording toproducer Chris Meledandri) led to the closure of Fox Animation Studios in 2000.
It was an uncompromised example of what our ideas were, at the beginning.
Wedge laughs when we ask if compromise has been a watchword in Blue Sky projects since that early freedom.
The studios first post-purchase brief?
And the rest, as they say, is (pre)history.
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