Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 2

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Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2009

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 2, we hear from the research and development team about their backgrounds, the kinds of technical challenges they face and the ways they use math and computers to solve those problems. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com; www.iceagemovie.com; www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=magic-and-the-brain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome to part two of our series of science talk interviews with the scientists and other creative members of the team at Blue Sky Studios, which brings you the Ice Age animated films.
0:45.4	Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs is just out and playing everywhere, including in 3D at some theaters.
0:55.0	The biggest event in two million years
1:01.0	is about to go to a whole new dimension.
1:07.0	Nobody move a muscle.
1:15.4	We've been living above an entire world, and we didn't even know him.
1:18.8	I feel so puny.
1:22.6	In this episode, we'll meet the Blue Sky Research and Development Team.
1:28.0	Everyone introduces him or herself, with the exception of someone you'll hear called only Maurice.
1:31.8	That's Maurice Van Suge, head of the R&D team.
1:37.5	Hearing these R&D folks should convince any kids listening that one great way to get into the movie business is to study a lot of math and science.
1:40.8	In fact, if you go to the FAQ page of their website, blue skystudios.com, you'll see
1:46.1	tips about what to study if you're interested in getting involved in this kind of work.
1:50.6	I'm Carl Ludwig. I'm one of the founders of the company. I'm chief technology officer.
1:55.4	My background is electrical engineering. And I started out in aerospace, but I always was when I was even a youngster.
2:04.2	I was a very visual person. I was very interested in art and things of that nature.
2:08.9	So I worked in aerospace for a number of years, and then from there I went and I started working
2:15.1	with a company, a friend of mine from school, actually,
2:18.3	and we developed some digital film recording stuff for NASA,
2:24.4	for the Lansat program.
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