BottleCap is executing its five-year over-all deal with Twentieth Century Fox. MARESA PULLMAN began working as Vice President with Carlos Saldanha at his company BottleCap Productions in the Spring of 2013. Following this achievement, his latest sequel “Rio 2” hit the theaters and continues its exceptional run around the world. Earlier this year, Carlos received the CinemaCon International Filmmaker of the Year Award. In 2011 he created and directed “Rio”, a love letter to his hometown, which became a worldwide success. Next came the even more successful “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” which became one of biggest grossing animated films of all time, grossing over $887 million worldwide.
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In 2002 Saldanha directed the animated short film “Gone Nutty,” which was nominated for an Oscar in 2004.Īfter the success of “Ice Age,” Saldanha took the directorial reins on “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006), the third computer-animated feature film from Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, which was the most profitable animated movie of the year. “Ice Age” was nominated for an Oscar in 2003. Soon thereafter, he teamed up with Chris Wedge to co-direct Blue Sky’s first animated features, “Ice Age” (2002) and “Robots” (2005). He was also the director of animation for the computer- generated characters in “Fight Club” (1999). After three years, he was the supervising animator for the talking and dancing roaches in the feature film “Joe’s Apartment” (1996). His shorts have been screened at animation festivals around the world.Ĭarlos was one of the very first animators to join the Blue Sky Studios team of artists. He attended the MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where he graduated with honors in 1993, after completing two animated shorts, “The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew” (1992) and “Time For Love” (1993). With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and left his hometown in 1991 to follow his artistic instinct and passion for animation. Wedge taught animation at The School of Visual Arts (NY) at the MFA Computer Lab.CARLOS SALDANHA (Director) has been one of the principal creative forces at Blue Sky Studios since 1993. He also directed the character animation sequences for the Warner Bros./Geffen Films Production Joe's Apartment, and he was a Creative Supervisor on the feature films Alien Resurrection, A Simple Wish, Star Trek Insurrection, as well as numerous commercials.īeginning his career as a stop-motion animator, Wedge later joined MAGI/SynthaVision, where he was one of the principal animators for the groundbreaking Disney movie Tron. Next, Wedge directed the studio's first all computer-animated feature film, ICE AGE, a critical and audience hit which Twentieth Century Fox released in March 2002. Its warm, cinematic style showcases Wedge's strong filmic sensibility and sets new cinematic standards for the CGI community. Wedge's release Bunny, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, was the first film to use radiosity, a complex computer application that recreates the most subtle properties of natural and ambient light. The studio's commitment to research and development has brought Blue Sky Studios to prominence as one of the top computer animation studios in the world. He is the driving force behind the company's high standard of character animation. Chris Wedge is an Oscar winning Director, and co-founder and VP of Creative Development at Blue Sky Studios.
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