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Welcome back for the third and final installment of our series of science talk interviews with the scientists and other creative members of the team at Blue Sky Studios.

Their latest venture, Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, featuring the voices of

Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Dennis Leary, and Queen Latifah, is now playing everywhere. In this

episode, we'll hear from art director Mike Knapp, head of lighting Andrew Badini, and co-director

Mike Thurmeyer. First up, Mike Knapp. Well, here at Blue Sky, the art director

works with the directors and the producers as we figure out the look of the movie. And so my

responsibility is sort of overseeing the development of the artwork for the look of the movie.

Sometimes on a good day, able to contribute some artwork as well when time allows.

But working with a team of designers and color artists whose artwork then gets passed down stream

among like modeling, layout, assembly, materials, lighting, and helps kind of explain to those

departments what we're aiming for in terms of the look of certain

sequences or the ideas behind certain sequences. So we design the sets. We, you know, come up with

the color palette for the film. I create a color script that sort of maps out how the color is

going to change from sequence to sequence to, you know, kind of help the emotional beats of each sequence. The color helps support that or time of day, things like that. We provide a lot of photo reference to different departments to kind of, you know, when we are referencing reality, we do paintings that accompany photo reference to say, okay, these are the ideas of like lichens and moss on the ground,

but then we'll do paintings of, okay,

but this is how we want to interpret them.

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