The process of animation exhibition launch at Blue Sky Studios

"Ice Age" of the digital age: 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios, reach the Katonah Museum of art here in September, and since then, Chris wedge, the founder of the studio, and it creative director of one already in hand several meetings and visits.

Every time he does so, he said, the sky is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., in a recent telephone interview, he observed a couple things.

One, "Many times people come in, they're thinking about something, someone took the camera and lens, and then it just landed on your screen animated film," he said. , "Because that is what it looks like." Process-oriented show in Katonah "to open their eyes, everything into it," he added, "all the unsung heroes of the work behind the scenes."

The other thing is that this exhibition through Jan. 20 - Mr. wedge will be in the December 15 visit again, and scheduled for seminars and workshops and other Blue Sky artists - mainly to attract young families.

This is not surprising. In addition to the four "Ice Age" movies, blue sky, with 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the child-friendly 2005 blockbuster "robot" and last year's colorful "Rio." Despite a relatively small The staff of 500, and the box office receipts may prefer Disney Pixar and DreamWorks Animation SKG power studio.

However, even if the 3 - 10 year-olds are the most familiar with characters such as Scrat's wisecrack dialogue population, said Mr. squirrel cage mouse wedge, the screen lights up "Ice Age" adults arrive unaccompanied children may find that their participation was surprised artwork and objects on the display 184.

There may be some of the nearly 25-year-old studio doing.

"One of the things about the great blue sky, it is the only successful animation company Fleischer brothers on the East Coast since the 1930s, said:" Mr. mouth, aged 55, Katonah, Fleischer work Room in Manhattan before the production of "Betty" and "Popeye" and former rival Disney. "We never in LA, from the creation of a certain amount of autonomy. Something you see a lot directly from me around Katonah and Norwich, New York, where he grew up.

If you is not immediately apparent in the whimsical faces of the characters, including Blu-ray, vivid macaw from "Rio" or Manny, a huge "Ice Age," the framework of digital printing and storyboard Museum gallery, it came to pass in the works to the finished product, because their sensibility, wedge said Mr..

The best example may be a small screening room in the museum, "rabbit," Mr. wedge 1998 Academy Award winning seven minutes short, I believe that more important things to promote blue sky, while on a cycle more educational video animation principle.

"Bunny", an elderly rabbit disturbed caterpillar, bake a cake. Its mood is melancholy.

"My tastes tend to go a little bit dark Oder the" than buyers animation movie tickets in Los Angeles, is usually seen wedge said Mr..

Walk through the museum's galleries, with framework pencil in paper storyboards, sculptures and other objects, for the assembly of functional membrane unsunny prospects, he attributed to his East Coast address is often detected, he said.

"There are kind of some deep, dark emotional stuff," Ice Age "," wedge Mr. said. It is implied in the show through the of several designer Peter de Seve movie intense character drawings. "Robot" in a to ectopic world. "Wedge." It is based on a city, this is a bit of wear and tear than LA "

Cases filled with the inspiration of the "real world, such as antique tanks and tarnished teapot backup, anti-utopian vision. So do rusty, 1950s motor for boat Mr. wedge grandfather. Rodney Copperbottom, star of the "robot" from it, and use it the shape and other characteristics. Resultant Rodney hanging near the motor similarities are obvious.

"Ice Age" digital age "traveled Katonah debut after the opening, in June 2011, the Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Atlanta, Massachusetts, United States, and it landed in the wedge Mr. hometown is a coincidence, "he said.

However, he was very pleased, "he said, the show gave a sense of his neighbors, to enter all their stuff, and how these things actually, rigging, lighting and sound technology. Museum of a series of follow-up along the boards, wanderers from basic sketching 3D effect to track the animation process.

Emphasis interactive animation aspiring designers and computer animation experiment just curious also sit down to the computer station.

If those up - and - to those who shared Mr. wedge of the native language, not entirely cheerful the children's film, they may be found-drawn settings similar to the of his work now Greenwich governance, the title of "epic. "movie to be released in May 2013. (The film is based on the writings of William Joyce "leaves good men and brave errors.") "Epic" "definitely occurred in the woods around here, wedge said Mr." movie with the blue sky, "I just go out walk around my campus, my inspiration. "