Ice Age

Ice Age

March 15, 2002 Theatrical Feature Films

Studio
Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Distributor
20th Century Fox

Synopsis

A group of dysfunctional Pleistocene mammals discover the first American, Roshan, and take him along on their journey south. Roshan is a toddler.

Characters

Manfred, Sid, Diego, Soto, Zeke, Rhino, Start, Saber-Tooth Tiger, Dodo, Sloth, Glypto

Credits

Directing

Director
Chris Wedge
Co-directed By
Carlos Saldanha

Producing

Producer
Lori Forte
Executive Producer
Christopher Meledandri
Associate Producer
John C. Donkin

Voices

Voice
Ray Romano (Manfred), John Leguizamo (Sid), Denis Leary (Diego), Goran Visnjic (Soto), Jack Black (Zeke), Cedric the Entertainer (Rhino), Stephen Root (Rhino, Start), Diedrich Bader (Saber-Tooth Tiger), Alan Tudyk (Saber-Tooth Tiger, Dodo, Freaky Mammal), Lorri Bagley (Female Sloth), Jane Krakowski (Female Sloth), Peter Ackerman (Dodo, Freaky Mammal), P.J. Benjamin (Dodo), Josh Hamilton (Dodo, Glypto), Chris Wedge (Dodo, Scrat), Denny Dillon (Glypto), Mitzi McCall (Glypto), Tara Strong (Start)

Music

Music
David Newman

Editing

Editor
John Carochan
Assistant Editors
Shannon Carey, Dan Madden, James Palumbo
First Assistant Editor
Anthony L. Jamison
Associate Editor
Tim Nordquist

Crew

Production Design
Brian McEntee
Preproduction Supervisor
Jerry Davis
Production Manager
Maria Criscuolo
Assistant Production Manager, Animation
Billy Foster, Lauren Prince
Assistant Production Manager, Layout/Staging
Irka B. Seng-Bloom
Assistant Production Manager, Lighting/Character Group
Samantha Berg
Assistant Production Manager, Lighting/Effects
Anthony Nisi
Assistant Production Manager, Production
Roburta Burroughs, Hugh Hitchens
Assistant Production Manager, Story/Editoral
Laura V. Perrotta
Production Coordinator, Digital Paint/Rendering
Sarah Rice
Production Coordinator, Editorial
Deanna Pizzuti
Production Coordinator, Layout/Staging
Chris Kuwata
Production Coordinator, Lighting
Vanessa M. Ross
Studio Manager
Laney Gradus, Laney Gradus
Casting Associate
Meg Morman
Casting, ADR Group
Bruce Winant
Additional Casting
Alan Filderman
Sequence Directors
Jan Carlée, Mark Baldo
Story Consultants
David Silverman, Jon Vitti
Character Designer
Peter DeSève
Environmental Designer
Peter Clarke
Set Dresser
Marcie Matsui
Storyboard Artists
Enrico Casarosa, William H. Frake III, Tony Kluck, Moroni, Kevin O'Brien, Wilbert Plijnaar, Dan Shefelman, Ilya Skorupsky
Lead Layout Artist
William H. Frake III
Color Stylists
Greg Couch, Michael Rose, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi
Color Timer
Jim Passon
Workbook Artist
Todd Winter
Production Supervisor, Technical Directors
Michael Feder
Technical Director
Kirk Garfield, Christopher M. Burrows
3-D Layout Supervisor
Robert Cardone
3-D Layout Artists
Jenifer Lee Gilchrist, Ken Lee, Kevin Thomason, Daniel Barlow, Steve Talkowski
3-D Layout Artist
Ken Lee
CG Character Animation
Tom Bisogno
Character Animator
David J. Smith
Character Materials Lead
Karl Herbst
Character Materials
Keith Cormier, Lisa Kalmanson, Inkyong Irene Kim, Eric Maurer, Sandra Singler, Kristi Hansen Walvoord
Additional Character Materials
Jodi Whitsel
Modeling Supervisor
Mike Defeo
Lead Modeler
Danny Williams
Character Modeler
Pasha Ivanov
Modeler
Frank Denota, John K. Dodelson, Jenga Zamani Mwendo, John Paine, Rachel Tiep-Daniels
Modeling TA
Ursula Wing
Character Texture Painters
Shaun Cusick, Ben Williams, Athena Xenakis
Senior Digital Artist
John Siczewicz
Digital Artist
Oktay Ahiska
Digital Compositor
Jason Galeon
Digital Effects
Keith Klohn
Digital Paint Artist
David Mei
Additional Digital Paint Artists
Athena Xenakis, Victor Banks
Effects Animator
Dan Whiting
Lead Compositor
Andrew Beddini
Lighting Sequence Supervisors
Mitch Kopelman, Jodi Whitsel
Master Lighting Lead
David Esneault
Lighting
Rafael Castelblanco, Wooksang Chang, James Gettinger, Bryan Godwin, Fran Roberts, Zach Schläppi, Haji Uesato
Matte Painter
Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi
Additional Matte Painter
Mike Knapp
Senior Technical Director, Lighting Sequence Supervisor
Clifford Bohm
Supervising Technical Assistant
Danielle Cambridge
Systems Programmer
Dan Weeks
Animation Production Supervisor
Leslie Schor-Bresnahan, David S. Peng
Animation Technical Assistant
Justin R. Rotolo
Effects Lead
Robert V. Cavaleri
Effects
Alen Lai, Adam Burr, Kirk A. Garfield, Mitch Kopelman, Tim Speltz
Effects TA
John A. Patterson
Engineer
Bill Talbott
Head Of Story
Yvette Kaplan
Head Of Systems
Andrew Siegel
Ice Age Baby
Merrick Arthur Baldo, Floyd Bishop III, Annabelle Rae Bresnahan, Joseph Domenic Cardone, Eric Daniel Cruz, Emma Eun Hee Cusick, Sophia Cullen De Moura, Paulina Sae Byul De Sève, Rachel Viola Fay, Zachary Dylan Fay, Eden Sophia Gallagher, Meghan Rose Garfield, Grace Aslinn Hitchens, Lydia Kristina Joe, Shannon Rose Keane, Peregrine Keegan Lennert, August Raphael Asch Mei, Anthony Michael Nisi III, Vincent Noh, Baby 'Ketchup' Nordquist, Yannah Elizabeth Nordquist, Sara Marie Polcari, Railyn Monét Rowley, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, Julian Riley Thomson, Nina Lim Uesato, Emma Whiting
Conductor
David Newman
Orchestrators
Gregory Jamrok, Rebecca R. Liddle
Scoring Consultant
Krystyna Newman
Scoring Contractor
Sandy DeCrescent
Vocal Contractor
Bobbi Page
Sound Designer
Sean Garnhart
Assistant Sound Editor
Bill Orrico
Apprentice Sound Editor
Mark Richelo
Dialogue Recordists
David Lucarelli, Carolyn Sauer, Chris Varekamp
Dialogue Mixers
Weldon Brown, Scott Cresswell, Bill Higley, Robert Kessler, Roy Latham, Charlene Richards, George Thompson
Music Editors
Richard A. Harrison, Joshua Winget
Orchestral Scoring Recordist
John Rodd
Scoring Mixer
John Kurlander
Supervising Foley Editor
Steven Visscher
Foley Editor
Frank Kern
Foley Artist
Marko Costanzo
Foley Mixer
George A. Lara
ADR Editors
Albert Gasser, Kenton Jakub, Marissa Littlefield, Nicholas Renbeck
Scoring Sound Designer
Marty Frasu
Sound Effects Editors
Craig Berkey, Lewis Goldstein, Paul Urmson
Sound Recordists
Tim Gomillion, Dennis Rogers
Sound Re-Recording Mixers
D. M. Hemphill, Paul Massey
Stage Engineer
Tim McColm
Post-Production Supervisor
Kendall McCarthy
Senior Developer
Trevor G. Thomson
Research And Development Director
Carl Ludwig
Senior Research Associates
Richard Hadsell, John Turner
Research Associate
Michael K. Reed
Software Development Manager
Maurice Van Swaaij
Stage Crew
Tom Steel, Damon Tedesco
Environmental Materials/Staging Lead
Michael Eringis
Environmental Materials/Staging
Erik J. Borzi, Colin Hayes Thompson, Weera Tom Wichitsripornkul
Environmental Materials/Staging TA
Alexander Adell
Supervising Technical Director
Dave Walvoord
Manager, Software Tools
Joe Higham
Managing Technical Director
Michael J. Travers
Technical Lead
Ross Scroble
Lead Technical Animator
Mark Piretti
Technical Animators
Justin Leach, Scotty Sharp
Technical Assistant
Gary Graves
Lead Composite/Render Wrangler
Aaron DiMunno
Lead Desktop Systems Administrator
Elvin Jorge
Desktop Systems Administrator
Melvin Ortiz
Audio/Video Support Engineer
John Lajvort
Chief Scientist
Eugene S. Troubetzkoy
Composite/Render Wrangler
Nicholas Carne
Unix Systems Administrators
Jack Ham, Bonnie Scott
Pro Tools Technician
Thomas Graham II
Production Executive, Ms. Forte
Stephanie Swengel
Production Programmers
Pia Miniati, Marlin Rowley
Production Programmer, Blue Sky Studios
André Mazzone
Programmer, Applications
David Tesch
Associate Programmer
Bruno Bowden
Visual Development Artist
H.B. 'Buck' Lewis
Additional Visual Development
Alexander Levenson, Mary Grandpré, Kelly Kimball, Amy Ning, Will Shefelman, Vinh Truong
Supervising Accountant
Bob Gordon
Production Accountant
Paul Ohrt
Staff, Blue Sky Studios
Laura Bellantoni, Mona Falvey, Angela Fay, Brian A. Keane, Luis Peña, Daniela Polcari, Charles Leland Richardson, Anita Roper, Mariana Suarez, Joselly A. Torres, Jason Wasserman
Marketing Coordinator
Linda Zazza
Production Assistant, Animation
Sharon Mancuso
Production Assistant, Art/Lighting/Effects
Jeremy Arambulo
Production Assistant, Production
Joseph Marcello
Production Assistant, Staging
Cresta Chamberlain
Production Assistant, Story/Editorial
Alexander Gradet
Production Assistant, Technical Direction
Cynthia Lynn Scott
Negative Cutter
Gary Burritt
Crew
Renderplex, Compaq, Title Opticals, Twentieth Century Fox Sound Department, Filmout, Riot Manhattan, Foley Recorded at, Kona Cutting, End Titles, Scarlet Letters

Companies and other credits

  • Custom Film Effects
  • Twentieth Century Fox Studios
  • Sound One Corporation
  • Cinesite Inc
  • Sound Post-Production
  • C-5 Inc
  • C-5 Inc
  • 20th Century Fox Studios

Production notes

"Ice Age" grossed $46.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend. This set a record (for its time) for the biggest opening weekend for a film released in March.

Canadian title: "The Ice Age."

Awards

Academy Award Nominee, Best Animated Feature, 2003.
Nominee, Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, Ray Romano, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, 2003.
Nominee, Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, Dennis Leary, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, 2003

Reviews

Ice Age

alecpeleNovember 21, 2003

This is a great production by 'Fox Animation Studios' and hopefully similar ones shall follow. The animation is excellent and all the characters are well designed. I especially liked the scenery, which changes while the story carries on, yet it always is impressive. The story is good and manages to couple all the characters with the saving of the human baby. The music -though- is not the expected one. Some good soundtracks could make this cartoon movie a brilliant production.

Ice Age

CatalogerJanuary 10, 2003

An exceptionally entertaining film containing breathtaking animation, superb direction, amusing performances by the voice actors, who are perfectly cast for their roles, and a touching storyline. Includes several incidents of violence.

Ice Age

SmashSpiderManDecember 31, 2002

It's the perfect film for everybody to watch.