Founded in the late 1980s, Blue Sky Studio have been behind many animated feature films. They rose to prominence in 2002 with their debut feature film, the adventure-comedy ‘Ice Age’, proving popular enough to receive multiple sequels. The last major film in the franchise from the studio was Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016, and their final aired work being the mini-series Ice Age: Scrat Tales (Now streaming on Disney+). Unfortunately, in 2021, the studio was shut down, which means that no new creations in the Ice Age franchise (now owned by Disney) would come from Blue Sky Studio.
But… fans of the studio have one last animated sequence left to discover. In the opening of Ice Age (1), we are first introduced to not the main cast but Scrat, an ill-fated squirrel who, throughout all movies, fails to horde and secure a beloved acorn for the winter.
As posted on Youtube by a brand new account titled ‘Finale’ purportedly owned by someone involved with the studio, we get to see what is purportedly a video created in the studio’s final days. This video is of Scrat finally getting and choosing to consume the acorn. It is a touching, satisfying send-off from an animation studio with almost two decades of film history behind them, and harkens back to the first scene audiences ever saw from the studio in cinemas.
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.
Finale – Video description on Youtube
