The Ice Age franchise broadened this week– on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar– with the shorts series Ice Age: Scrat Tales, but it’s the swansong for its creator and animation outfit Blue Sky Studios. Less than 2 years under its brand-new owner Disney as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Blue Sky was shuttered last April with Disney mentioning impacts of the continuous COVID-19 pandemic. With Ice Age: Scrat Tales, Blue Sky provides its last piece in the Ice Age folklore: a series of 6 shorts starring hapless saber-toothed squirrel Scrat and his lovable, mischievous Baby Scrat as they fight for the Acorn. Mentioning the Acorn, Blue Sky has actually revealed a (possibly non-canonical) video on YouTube that includes Scrat finally consuming what he’s been chasing after permanently. Yep, it really took place.
“In the last days of Blue Sky Studios, a little group of artists came together to do one last shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms,” the Connecticut, US-based animation movie studio wrote in the description of an unlisted YouTube video titled “Completion”. In it, Scrat leaps onto the screen in the background, sniffing for the Acorn. Spotting it in the foreground, the squirrel leaps towards it, grabs it, fondly rubs it, and then raises it over his head like he’s won a significant prize. Then, taking a look around himself, Scrat does what he’s never ever done before. He bites into the Acorn with the full force of his saber teeth– he glances up for a short while to see if anybody’s enjoying him– and then continues to chomp through the rest of the Acorn.
“The End” is only 34 seconds long, and does not have the very same polish as more current productions, likely due to the fact that Blue Sky animators dealt with this brief in their own time. The two-line description, including the words “a send-off on our own terms”, seems like a parting shot at Disney, as the entertainment giant will no doubt capture whatever out of the franchise despite the fact that it’s laid off those who were at the heart of all of it. Disney might be in the crosshairs these days for its errors with Florida’s “Do not Say Gay” bill, but it has previously been berated internally for its negotiations too. Pixar employees have revealed their frustration with how their current releases, consisting of Soul, Luca, and Turning Red, have avoided theatres and been transferred to Disney+.
While Blue Sky may be bidding farewell to Glacial epoch, fans do not require to. If you desire to see more of the unhurt Acorn and Acorn-chasing Scrat, tune into Glacial Epoch: Scrat Tales— on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar any place readily available. The 6 shorts find Baby Scrat seeing the Acorn for the very first time (“Nuts About You”), Scrat attempting to get Baby Scrat to sleep (“LoFi Scrat Beats to Sleep/Chill to”), Scrat revealing Child Scrat how to plan the Acorn (“X’s and Uh-O’s”), Scrat and Infant Scrat chasing the Acorn in a dark cavern that resembles a weird funhouse hall of mirrors (“Nutty Reflections”), the duo having experiences with a dodo bird (“Teeter Young Child”), and the Acorn flying off a cliff (“Nut The End”).
The entire Glacial epoch franchise– including Glacial epoch, Glacial epoch: The Disaster, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Glacial Epoch: Accident Course, and the spin-off movie The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild— is now streaming on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar.Published at Thu, 14
Apr 2022 09:55:43 +0000