![]() When you decided to pitch a new idea to the studios, did you think it would be immediately embraced? How did people respond to the idea, when you brought it to them? I know that sounds long, but that was the easiest four years of it. Once I got the green light for the movie, it took about four years to make. It can take a long time, for different reasons. It took longer than I was hoping, but we got it done. In 1998, he won an Academy Award for the short animated film, Bunny.Collider: When you decided to move away from comedy and tell this big action-adventure story, could you ever have imagined the journey would have taken as long as it did, to get it out there for people?ĬHRIS WEDGE: Well, I’ve got a pretty vivid imagination. Wedge is co-founder and Vice President of Creative Development at Blue Sky Studios, one of the premier computer animation studios and producer of Wedge"s films. Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger are set to write the film, Wedge is set to direct the animated film which will be produced by Mary Parent. In August 2013 Paramount Animation announced that they will create a new live action/animated franchise with its first film titled Monster Trucks with $100 million budget. In 2009, it was reported that Wedge would direct an animated feature film adaptation of Will Wright"s Spore, but since then there has been no further news about the film. In 2013 followed Epic, loosely based on Joyce"s book, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. ![]() He also voiced Scrat in the film and its following sequels, performing the character"s "squeaks and squeals." In 2005, Wedge directed Robots, based on a story he created with William Joyce. In 2002, Wedge directed Blue Sky Studios" first computer-animated film, Ice Age. He is the owner of WedgeWorks, a film production company founded by Wedge. Some of his other works include Where the Wild Things Are (1983), Dinosaur Bob, George Shrinks, and Santa Calls. lieutenant was so simple, effective and magical in outcome and I stuck with creating things throughout my childhood, teenage years and then college." In 1982, Wedge worked for MAGI/SynthaVision, where he was a principal animator on the Disney film Tron, credited as a scene programmer. He became interested in animation when he was 12 years old: "Back then, there was a television special about kids making cut-out animation in a workshop-as I recall it was Yellow Ball Workshop-it was a clear technique to follow and I followed lieutenant That fascinated me and it got me started. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from State University of New York at Purchase in Purchase, New York in 1981, and subsequently earned his Master of Arts in computer graphics and art education at the Ohio State University. He attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School, graduating in 1975. Wedge was born in Binghamton, New New York John Christian "Chris" Wedge is an American director, producer and voice actor of animation, best known for the films Ice Age, Robots and Epic. ![]() In 1982, Wedge worked for MAGI/SynthaVision, where he was a principal animator on the Disney film Tron, credited as a scene programmer. lieutenant was so simple, effective and magical in outcome and I stuck with creating things throughout my childhood, teenage years and then college." ![]() Binghamton, Broome County, United States of America ![]()
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