#Ice Age Scrat Tales

[puccafangirl]

I swear nothing screams Scrat saying "MIIIINE." more than this image right here! XD

[iceagearchive]

Ice age : iced in comic book by kaboom!

Released February 21, 2012

Happy National comic book day !

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[wayward-delver]

Happy Anniversary to Scrat getting his nut.

As a final goodbye, Blue Sky Studios came together and gave Scrat a send off on their own terms.

He finally got his nut.

[disneybuddy]

thoughts on scrat tales

I haven't seen a single episode.

[red-pencil]

Today's #AniMonday master-plan!

From Scrat Tales, when we went into Scrat 's head, it was all 2D. We tried to do it in the art style of one of Blue Sky studios's OG artists, Bill Frake, who designed and storyboarded on the original Ice Age movie.

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2023

This is my copy of the Ice Age Essential Guide (featuring 1, 2 & 3).

It is a movie guide book written by Glenn Dakin. It was published by Dorling Kindersley (DK books) in 2009 following the release of the third film. The book features 64 pages.

In this post I will talk about the two menacing aquatic dinosaurs from Ice Age 2 The Meltdown, Cretaceous (an Ichthyosaur) and Maelstrom (a Pliosaur).

Cretaceous and Maelstrom are first seen frozen in a block of ice during the waterpark migration scene. These two have spent millions of years trapped in an ice berg since the Mesozoic era, but due to the warming weather they're beginning to thaw out and are very hungry. Along with the vultures they are seeking to eat all the mammals they can during the flood. Stu (a Glyptodon) becomes their first victim.

They work together as a team to bring down their prey. Both reptiles split up to try and hunt the herd in the movie and Scrat in the games. They can also defend each other for example If either Cretaceous or Maelstrom get hurt the other stands in to attack. Cretaceous is shown to have more strength and courage to take on Manny the Mammoth, whilst Maelstrom tries to take on the rest of the herd.

Their fate at the end of the Meltdown involves a fight with Manny who is trying to save Ellie from the cave. As they attempt to attack him, Manny wedges the tree trunk into the rock. He quickly gets out of the way as they bite onto it instead and are then taken down by the rocks as they crumble down saving Ellie in the process. Both reptiles are then sucked into a whirlpool as the ice dam breaks open thanks to Scrat. As a result, these two reptiles end up becoming a snack for the Mini Sloths (in the essential guide) and the Lone Gunslinger Vultures (in the movie storybook).

Cretaceous and Maelstrom also appear in the video game adaption of Ice Age 2 and are featured in Scrats Nutty Adventure (2019) as bosses. 3D rendered models which were used for the Scrat's Nutty Adventure videogame can be found here:

https://aaronhumphreys35.artstation.com/projects/w8gWa5

In the videogame of Ice Age 2, Scrat navigates through Maelstrom's digestive system to escape when he is eaten along with his acorn.

Cretaceous and Maelstrom's sound effects were a mixture of whales, tigers growling and human voices, which was used to give an eerie quality. In an early script, both reptiles could talk but this was removed from the movie as the studio didn't want too many characters with speaking roles.

The Art of Ice Age book published by Titan Books and co-written by Tara Bennet, features an early concept of Cretaceous and Maelstrom revealing that they were going to be alongside another character known as a Axolotl. All three characters are called 'The Villainous Trio' in the art book. The 3D sculptures were created by Michael Defeo and character drawings were done by Peter De Sève.

A Axolotl is only featured in the videogame of the second movie. Here is a screenshot featuring an Axloti in the Mud Bog stage alongside Scrat. Image from Sierra Chest.

Read more about the removed material from 'The Meltdown' here:

https://iceage.fandom.com/wiki/Ice_Age/Deleted_Material#Ice_Age:_The_Meltdown

See links below for more information:

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Cretaceous_and_Maelstrom

https://iceage.fandom.com/wiki/Cretaceous

More recently, Cretaceous and Maelstrom are depicted chasing the herd in cave paintings in the opening sequence of the sixth Ice Age spin-off movie called 'The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild' which was created and released by Walt Disney Studios in January 2022.

Disney's 'The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild' was followed later by 'Ice Age: Scrat Tales', a collection of short films produced by Disney with the help of a small team of Blue Sky Studios animators. Scrat Tales was Blue Sky Studios final farewell production following the studios closure.

© All Ice Age material is owned by the Walt Disney company under the Walt Disney Studios division. Walt Disney acquired Blue Sky Studios & 20th Century Fox in 2019.

See the Ice Age movies website here:

https://iceage.disney.com/

The images underneath show an artist's impression of an Ichthyosaur (Cymbospondylus) and a Pliosaur (Pliosauroidea).

[bookishnewt]

I about died when I saw it.

…Disney+ did not just do this.

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Also, apparently this... Something that raises questions...

John Leguizamo apparently confirms a new ICE AGE movie is in the works...

That's merely a kernel of a possible announcement. It could all be moot, but... I do wanna talk about what the future of ICE AGE could be...

I wouldn't put it past Disney to barrel ahead with another ICE AGE movie, despite the fact that they shut down the studio that originated the franchise, Blue Sky Studios.

And suppose a new ICE AGE movie comes out a few years from now, as a 20th Century Studios Animation film WITHOUT any Blue Sky logo or mention, because they no longer exist as a studio... Well, that'll certainly sting, for sure.

Interestingly though, ICE AGE did not begin life at Blue Sky. It was originally going to be a 2D animated film that Don Bluth and Gary Goldman would've been involved with, and it was going to be made at the long-defunct Fox Animation Studios. The studio where Bluth and Goldman made ANASTASIA and TITAN A.E in 1997 and 2000 respectively. The latter feature's flopping put the nail in the Fox Animation Studios coffin by the end of 2000, but before that movie came out, ICE AGE was shifted over to Blue Sky once 20th Century Fox acquired them. So, if we do see an ICE AGE 6, it'll certainly suck remembering what Disney did to Blue Sky, but at the same time I understand that ICE AGE could continue either way with or without the studio where the first movie was made. Sad animation facts-of-life things, you know?

When Disney acquired Blue Sky as part of the Fox package from the Murdochs, it was made clear that Iger and all of them saw potential in future ICE AGE and RIO stuff. RIO's the only other Blue Sky picture to have gotten a sequel. HORTON HEARS A WHO!, EPIC, FERDINAND, etc. didn't. THE PEANUTS MOVIE curiously has a sequel happening at WildBrain, but that's because... It's PEANUTS. I just find it neat that the new PEANUTS movie coming out is using the same style and look of THE PEANUTS MOVIE, so it's basically the sequel to that. Albeit, from another studio. Some of the same crew involved.

That BUCK WILD thing will probably be brought up, but I always saw that as what it is: Some direct-to-video/TV caliber thing like RETURN OF JAFAR. It was first envisioned as a TV series anyways, and Blue Sky had no involvement. Blue Sky's final ICE AGE media was that fun little series SCRAT TALES, that was on Disney+. A fitting send-off to a pioneering studio that did not need to be shut down.

The spirit of Blue Sky, I feel, lives on in Annapurna Animation, who got Blue Sky's NIMONA - which was deep in the works when Disney pulled the plug on Blue Sky - and got it to the finish line. ICE AGE and RIO director Chris Wedge, among other notables, are at Annapurna right now working on some neat-sounding stuff.

But no, Disney likes money, many of the ICE AGE movies are among the highest-grossing animated movies. DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS and CONTINENTAL DRIFT each made over $870m worldwide. COLLISION COURSE saw something of a good-sized dip in 2016 ($408m worldwide, half of what the last two took in), suggesting that maybe the juice was running low... But, ICE AGE is now a 22-year-old movie, soon to be 23 in March 2025... Enough time has supposed, Disney probably could ride the sorta SHREK 5 approach with nostalgic late '90s/early '00s kids who grew up on the ICE AGE movies. Boom, instant big buckeroos.

And who would make it? Well, it'd be a 20th Century Studios release I reckon, with animation services provided by like a DNEG-type studio (they finished NIMONA for Annapurna). I doubt they'd have Disney Animation do it, ditto Pixar.

The only animated 20th Century Studios movies that went to theaters, post-Disney buyout, were pictures that were already in the works prior to that... RON'S GONE WRONG, THE BOB'S BURGERS MOVIE. All waylaid by COVID, no less. What else? Nothing, and nothing on the horizon, either.

With Blue Sky's shutdown in February 2021 also came the kibosh of everything they and 20th Century Fox Animation had lined up. Disney also jettisoned their deal with Locksmith, the studio that did RON'S GONE WRONG (which DNEG also provided animation services for), sooo their future pics are either with Netflix (the upcoming THAT CHRISTMAS) or Warner Bros. (BAD FAIRIES, THE LUNAR CHRONICLES, et al.)

The only post-2019 animated features to come out of 20th Century were Disney+ titles, those DIARY OF A WIMPY KID movies, the BUCK WILD thing, and the animated NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM pic. Since Disney has always had Disney Animation and Pixar, and not only shut down Blue Sky, but also Disneytoon Studios back in mid-2018, it just seems like they're not interested in having a third animation studio. But I can see occasional animated movies coming out of 20th Century Studios every now and then, but only if they're from a well-established franchise.

ICE AGE, obviously, is that. So is RIO. And of course a second SIMPSONS movie is inevitable, probably a FAMILY GUY movie at some point. But that's about it... So, if ICE AGE 6 even happens... I suppose that's how it'll happen.

I find it funny how this all came up... A few days after someone did fanart of the original ICE AGE, with the three friends reuniting with the human baby all grown up... Legacy sequels are a big deal now, sooooo... Uhhhh, maybe that could happen? I don't know lol.

Also funnily enough, to go off on a tangent... I've been listening to this song lately...

You might be thinking... What does that have to do with ICE AGE?

That song above is by a group called Rusted Root, off of their first album - CRUEL SUN, released in 1992. CRUEL SUN also had a song on it called 'Send Me On My Way', which Rusted Root remade in 1994 for their album WHEN I WOKE. That version of the song is the one that became a hit single, and the very version that you hear in the mid-movie montage in the first ICE AGE... An iconic folky worldly-sounding '90s song... and ICE AGE was where I - at age 9 1/2 - first heard it...

I just thought that was kind of a fun coincidence, really.

That was THE era of putting pop songs like that into animated movies, or having the hired musicians write songs like that in lieu of theatre-style musical numbers (think Randy Newman on the TOY STORY movies). ICE AGE used 'Send Me On My Way' in the same way the SHREK soundtrack used its more eccentric song choices, the year prior. And by the end of the 2000s, it became a real norm for these kinds of films... Needledrops, as the cool folk say...

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Bart And Lisa Watching Ice Age: Scrat Tales

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[thelonewandererknight]

Today marks one year since the release of Scrat Tales (Blue Sky’s last finished project before they shut down).

And I want to celebrate this occasion with one of my favorite pieces from the soundtrack created by Batu Sener for the shorts and also one of my favorite songs from the Ice Age franchise in general.

[puccafangirl]

Another parallel I've noticed lmao.

[fanvisionstudios2004]

Buck Wild: Legend of the Lost World is an American computer-animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by 20th Century Animation and distributed by 20th Century Studios. The film is a spin-off/prequel, the second installment in the trilogy of Buck Wild films after The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), and the eighth installment overall in the Ice Age franchise. It is directed by Donnie Long, who also directed Ice Age: Scrat Tales, written by Michael Berg, Yoni Brenner and Edgar Wright, and produced by John C. Donkin. The music for the film was composed by James Newton Howard.

In the film’s ensemble voice cast, Simon Pegg and Justina Machado reprise their respective roles as the titular character and Zee, while they are joined by Nick Frost and Andy Serkis, who voices new characters introduced in this film.

The film’s plot follows the origin story of Buck Wild on his adventures in the Lost World years before the events of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Accompanied by his ambitious recruits Zee, his grandfather Lloyd, and his brother Ray, they must learn to work together as a team to escape the rouge albino Baryonyx Rudy, who’s planning to hunt down Buck, while going through dangerous obstacles and encountering vicious dinosaurs as they embark on their toughest mission yet.

The computer animation for the film was provided by DNEG, who had also provided animation for 2021’s Ron’s Gone Wrong and 2023’s Nimona.

Originally planned to be a sequel to The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, it was later scrapped in favour of a spin-off prequel that mainly focuses on Buck, due to the film’s poor critical reception and audience viewership and how it lacked the primary focus on the titular character.

The film was released on the Disney+ streaming service and received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with Rotten Tomatoes calling it “an Ice Age spin-off centered on Buck done right”. Many praised the animation, Pegg and Machado’s performance, action sequences, and musical score, and deemed it a significant improvement over the 2022 film.

Cast

Simon Pegg as Buck “Buckminster” Wild, a one-eyed fearless weasel who is daring, adventurous and a little eccentric.

Justina Machado as Zee, a sarcastic yet compassionate zorilla who is Buck’s love interest.

Nick Frost as Ray “Raymond” Wild, a dimwitted yet optimistic weasel who is Buck’s brother. He previously voiced Flynn in Ice Age: Continental Drift.

Andy Serkis as Lloyd Wild, an elderly cranky yet goodhearted weasel who is Buck's grandfather.

Eric Bana as Buck's father who is killed by Rudy.

Karen Disher as Buck's mother who is killed by Rudy.

Frank Welker as Momma, a female Tyrannosaurus, and Rudy, a rouge albino Baryonyx.

Dee Bradley Baker as Poppa, a Tyrannosaurus and Momma’s husband, and Juniper, a Compsognathus and Zee’s canine companion.

[iceagearchive]

This image of baby scrat looking oh so silly

That's It that's the post.

[precious-ketchup]

Scrat:

Us:

[disneytva]

In the final days of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms ------ Blue Sky Studios 🌰