![]() ![]() Peter drew some saber teeth on it so now it looked like a prehistoric creature. “He had reams of drawings,” says Wedge, “and one that we hadn’t used was this little squirrel. The director scoured animal designs that character designer Peter de Sève had made so far during production. OK, if it’s a huge glacier let’s have it chasing the smallest animal we can think of!” So I thought, let’s come up with a way to use the ice age as a character itself – let’s make a glacier a character that is chasing another character down a hill. ![]() “The story started in the autumn at the turn of seasons while animals are migrating. So all those ingredients were going to mix in a certain way and we had fun writing that.”īuilding on the relationships between Manny, Sid and Diego made the movie more fun, but Wedge soon realized that despite the title being ‘Ice Age’, there wasn’t actually gong to be any ice seen until about half way through the film. And we have this saber-toothed cat Diego (Denis Leary) who has malevolent intentions. We have this guy who is striving for attention in Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo), so they make a fun pair. “He wants to isolate himself from society. “We have this reluctant hero Manny the mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) who turns out has a dark past,” outlines Wedge. So when the project came to Blue Sky Studios, the director looked to help infuse it with more fun and detail, starting with the main characters. “There was no comedy in this first draft, I promise you,” says Wedge. Ice Age has become one of the most popular CG animated comedies of all time, but the film, about a prehistoric mammoth, sloth and saber-toothed cat who find a human baby, was not always intended to be in that genre. With Ice Age now celebrating its two-decade anniversary, befores & afters went back to a past interview with Wedge about the film to present to you now. It was more driven by the look and the feeling I wanted than any story – in fact I didn’t really have a story until we were half way through on it.” ![]() “I thought if we can make the shadows soft enough,” says Wedge, “if we can put enough detail into the scenes, it would look like a dream or a memory – that’s what I wanted Bunny to be. Wedge’s Bunny, a film about an elderly rabbit living alone in a cabin, would capitalize on Blue Sky’s ray tracing rendering technology and its ability to deliver a realistic but also painterly look. This period was still early days in the history of CG, with Blue Sky making its name working in commercials and later film VFX, before transitioning into a powerhouse animated features studio. But Blue Sky had, in fact, been operating since 1987 when a team of computer graphics and visual effects artists who had earlier worked on the seminal effects film Tron established the studio and quickly developed advanced rendering software (CGIStudio). When director Chris Wedge’s Bunny won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998, it seemed as though the director and the studio he co-founded, Blue Sky Studios, had only just then burst onto the animation scene. His best showing so far in 2023 was fourth place at the Phoenix Open in Arizona back in February.Looking back at Blue Sky’s first feature film and the art and tech behind it. So bad was his lie that he had to hit back towards the tee for a bogey in order to set up another approach to the green.įans had plenty of sympathy for the struggling star. His struggles on the 18th were a reflection of how the entire round had been for the American star, chunking his first shot out of the final hole sandtrap directly onto another one opposite. WOW: Cameron Smith's admission about Greg Norman in fresh dramaīEAUTIFUL: US Open champ's emotional family message after triumph Having missed the cut in three of his last four starts, Thomas faces an uphill battle to make it at The Open, after getting off to an inauspicious start by chipping into the bunker on the first hole. While it was hometown hero Tommy Fleetwood who set the early running with a five-under-par 66, Thomas was left in utter despair after becoming trapped in the 18th hole bunkers, a miserable end to what had already been an difficult day. The nightmare outing, which featured four bogeys, two double-bogeys and a cringe-inducing quadruple bogey on the 18th hole at Royal Liverpool, left fans in utter disbelief at the 30-year-old's struggles. Justin Thomas could be forgiven if he felt like snapping his sand wedge in half at the British Open overnight, after the World No.20 turned in an 11-over round of 82 on the opening day. Justin Thomas was already enduring a nightmare first day at the British Open when he quadruple-bogeyed the 18th hole at Royal Liverpool. ![]()
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