I’ve already processed my emotions. First and foremost, the silver lining is that the studio and staff are being recommended to other studios within the overall situation, but considering how hard it is to move from one state to another is difficult, it still sucks for the staff. Very difficult. Especially since it’s the only major studio in the East Coast.

Quite frankly, the worst part of is, I had a feeling this would happen *sooner* than later, in fact I was surprised it wasn’t considered a redundancy during the worst of the layoff period. I was also desperately hoping that Blue Sky would finish Nimona before the inevitable, but alas, it wasn’t to be.

The thing that frustrates me the most that after YEARS being crapped on by the animation “community”, NOW people are gonna miss what Blue Sky produced. You only appreciate what you have only when it’s taken away from you, never realizing what Blue Sky provided for us. Before Sony, they pushed for unconventional artstyles and cartoonier animation.

I wished they could have kept it on as their own, streaming-exclusive animation studio in their ecosystem, but considering that Pixar and Disney Animation is already making their own television series on Disneyplus, it was a sign that the writing’s on the wall… Doubly-still they are shifting focus to 20th Century Studios and 20th Century Animation, studios with FAR more brand flexibility than the main brand.

To make it all worse, the Pandemic simply hastened the situation.

Just wished people wouldn’t be the casualty to all this.

RIP Blue Sky, and all you did.