Chris Wedge
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Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American animated film producer and writer whose films include Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), Epic (2013), and Monster Trucks (2016).
He is a co-founder of Blue Sky Studios and created Scrat, the animated version of the Ice Age comic book.
Early life
In Binghamton, New York, Wedge was born. Wedge spent his youth in Watertown, New York, which was rumored to be the inspiration for his film "Robots" in the town where his film "Robots" takes place, but he later denied this in an interview. He became interested in animation at the age of 12. "Back then, a TV special about kids making cut-out animation in a workshop was on display in a classroom; as I recall it was Yellow Ball Workshop—it was a simple strategy to follow and I followed it." That intrigued me, and it got me started. It was so simple, convenient, and magical in end, and I continued to make things throughout my childhood, teenage years, and then college."
He attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School, graduating in 1975. He earned his BFA in Film from Purchase in New York in 1981 and then received his MA in computer graphics and art education at the Ohio State University. He has taught animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he met Carlos Saldanha, his future film directing partner.
Personal life
Wedge and his partner, Jeanne Markel, live in Katonah, New York. Sarah and Jack have a daughter and a son.
Career
Wedge, who was credited as a scene programmer on the Disney film Tron in 1982, worked for MAGi/SynthaVision, where he was a principal animator on the Disney film Tron. The Brave Little Toaster is one of his other creations.
Wedge is the co-founder of the now defunct Blue Sky Studios, once one of the top computer animation studios, and was also the Vice President of Creative Development until the Walt Disney Company's closing of the studio in 2021. He is the director of WedgeWorks, a film production company founded by Wedge.
He and his studio worked on CGI effects for Alien Resurrection and Titan A.E. in the 1990s.
He received an Academy Award for his short animated film Bunny in 1998. Wedge later supervised Blue Sky Studios' first computer-animated film, 2002's Ice Age, and worked as a producer for the sequels. Scrat appears in the film version as well as acting in the character's "squeaks and squeals." In 2005, Wedge directed Robots, based on a tale he co-created with William Joyce. The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, a Epic that was loosely based on Joyce's book, were released in 2013.
In 2007, it was announced that Wedge would order Hugo, but Martin Scorsese replaced him. It was announced in 2009 that Wedge would produce an animated feature film version of Will Wright's Spore, but there has been no further information about the film since then.
In 2016, Wedge directed Monster Trucks, a science fiction/action film. Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger wrote the script for the film, which was produced by Mary Parent.
In addition to being an executive producer, Wedge retold Scrat in a series of shorts titled Ice Age: Scrat Tales. On April 13, 2022, the shorts premiered on the streaming platform.