![]() And because the industry has matured, we wanted to make sure that we were right there. ![]() I think the audience has matured since the time of the first Ice Age, and we wanted to give them some fresh elements. At first, I didnt think we could have all these shots, but we kept fighting the schedule and kept making them. So we had to face all those challenges with the constraints of money and time. We wanted to make the fur better and we wanted to have interaction, so we wanted to use the fur almost like another character. ![]() We had a more complex story in terms of the effects because of the meltdown, so we had to work harder on the elements and the fur. In a way, I wanted to embrace that on this one because its still about the characters. We embraced the fact that the movie could look simpler and the characters and story could stand out, Saldanha suggests. Fortunately, there were 60 animators on this movie compared to 35 on the first Ice Age. That was less time than it had on Ice Age with proportionally the same budget. And, by the way, theres much more Scrat in this one too.) However, because of new constraints, Blue Sky had eight months to complete The Meltdown. Along the way, Manny, whos convinced hes extinct, meets his match in Ellie, a Mammoth, voiced by Queen Latifah, who thinks shes a possum. (This time, Manny, Sid and Diego confront pre-historic global warming and flee for the other side of the valley before the great glacial dam breaks. As co-director of both Ice Age and Robots, Saldanha offered a more physical approach to the comedy and animation, especially given the environmental jeopardy inherent in the sequel. With Wedge following up with last years Robots, Carlos Saldanha took over as director of The Meltdown. But now, four years later, with 3D animation becoming such a booming industry and technology improving so resoundingly, New York-based Blue Sky Studios, already known for its ray tracing prowess, was ready for a more ambitious technical challenge with Ice Age: The Meltdown (a Twentieth Century Fox Animation production opening March 31). In fact, because of budgetary constraints, director Chris Wedge had virtually no money for environment and effects for Blue Skys first feature. Part of the great charm and success of Ice Age was its simplicity, including the animation. If you have the QuickTime plug-in, you can view a clip from the film by simply clicking the image. Unless noted otherwise, photo credit: Blue Sky Studios. All images & © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Like all Glyptodons, Stu had a large green shell which he could retract in like a turtle, along with four stubby feet, a club tail and a shelled head on a short neck, with a stubby nose and buck teeth.This time around the comedy gets more physical in Ice Age 2 when Scrat finds himself in a precarious position. As he rowed on Stu's empty shell, Fast Tony spoke to it, happy proclaiming that they'd both survive before rephrasing that at least Fast Tony would.Īlthough Stu was killed off, his shell makes a brief appearance in Dawn of the Dinosaurs as Manny was carrying it with water inside it for Ellie to give birth.Ī simple-minded Glyptodon, Stu was the thoughtless assistant of Fast Tony, usually used as a guinea pig in demonstrating Fast Tony's items. Not long after, Fast Tony used Stu's empty shell as a podium to stand on and a raft during the flood. Shocked only for a moment, Fast Tony forgot about his dismay as he ran off with Stu's shell, referring to it as a "mobile home". Just then, Fast Tony, who was looking for Stu so that they could leave, was caught by surprise as Stu's empty shell was blasted out of the water, empty. Chuckling at James running away screaming, Stu swam through the waters, the reed in his nose, unknowing that he was being followed until a pair of large sea reptiles named Cretaceous and Maelstrom took him down below the water, devouring Stu alive.įast Tony shell-shocked by the remains of Stu. Stu decided, while swimming, to frighten a young aardvark named James away, as the youngster was by the waterside blowing bubbles with his trunk. ![]() ![]() Later on, the other animals left the waterpark behind in droves, leaving Stu, who had been swimming in the lakes, alone. Disgusted, Fast Tony snatched the reed away and jammed it into Stu's mouth, then forcing his head in the water, claiming that Stu would have air for "eons to come", ignoring the Glyptodon lifting his head back up, gasping for air. Stu, however, put the reed in his nose, snorting in air. While at the waterpark, Fast Tony was trying to sell river reeds to the other animals, claiming that they could "pull air right out of the sky", under the pretenses of preparing the other animals for an oncoming flood. The Armadillo Fast Tony's unintelligent assistant, Stu was often used by Fast Tony to demonstrate various items that the armadillo tried to sell off in exchange for food. ![]()
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