Welcome to the prehistoric world of ICE AGE, a smart, character-based comedy and all-digital animated feature film from Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Academy Award®-winning director Chris Wedge.
They become the weirdest herd of this, or any, age.Īs for Scrat … He is probably still trying to retrieve that cursed acorn. They narrowly escape avalanches, battle over food with a hapless flock of doomsday dodos, explore the mysteries of a diaper, careen through a prehistoric roller coaster of ice funnels and traverse ice bridges over lakes of volcanic lava. While Scrat wages war with the Ice Age itself over his precious nut, Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan embark on an incredible journey. They are joined by Diego, a sinister saber-toothed tiger who befriends Sid and Manny, all the while seeing the infant as a tasty treat.Īs Sid, Manny and Diego make their way across the vast, ice-covered landscape, another creature, a prehistoric squirrel / rat known as Scrat, tries desperately to carry out his mission in life - to bury an acorn - which, alas, triggers calamitous events. But that's only the beginning of his frustrations: Manny has been roped by Sid into helping reunite an abandoned human baby named Roshan with his family. When Sid "adopts" Manfred as his protector, the mammoth tries everything he can to unload his newfound baggage. The exceptions are a woolly mammoth named Manfred, a high plains drifter who does things his own way and a terminally lazy sloth named Sid, who enjoys doing nothing, his own way. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet's majestic creatures - and a few small, slothful ones - begin migrating south.
The Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Ice Age.
This passion project is the one closest to his heart as it allowed him to share the beauty and excitement of his culture and home country.Twenty-thousand years ago. Saldanha most recently directed the feature, Rio. His following project, a short called Gone Nutty (2004) also garnered him an Oscar™ nomination.Īs a Director, Saldanha’s continued success came with building the franchise of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) followed by Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), the fourth highest grossing international film of all time. With Wedge, Carlos co-directed Blue Sky’s first animated feature, the Oscar™ nominated Ice Age (2002). Since joining Blue Sky in 1993, Saldanha served as Director of Animation for the films A Simple Wish (1997), Fight Club (1999), and has had a hand in creating Blue Sky’s most critically acclaimed projects. Saldanha was the supervising animator of the group of singing and dancing roaches. One of the earliest films Saldanha worked on for Blue Sky Studios was the cult 1993 MTV short Joe’s Apartment, about a group of mischievous cockroaches who “sabotage” a young man’s plans for a romantic dinner date at home. At SVA, Carlos met Chris Wedge, one of the founders of Blue Sky Studios, who invited him to join their growing team of artists. He graduated with honors in 1993 after finishing two animated shorts, The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew (1992) and Time For Love (1993) which have been screened at animation festivals around the world. All rights reserved.īlue Sky Studios animator Carlos Saldanha, who will be joining us for our Rio Festival Day on Saturday, October 15, began his filmmaking career in 1991 upon leaving his hometown of Rio de Janeiro to attend the MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Blue Sky Studios Animation Director Carlos Saldanha and characters from "Rio." Courtesy 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.
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