Company type | Private |
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Industry | CGI Animation, VFX, animation |
Founded | September 1994 |
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Headquarters | Culver City, California |
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Products | Films Television series Video games |
Website | blur |
Blur Studio is an American production company which specialises in CGI visual effects, CGI animation and CGI design. Located in Culver City, California, [1] the studio has produced CGI-animated films, teasers and ad spots for television, as well as video-game CGI cinematics.
Founded in March 1995 [2] by David Stinnett, Tim Miller and Cat Chapman. [3] Blur has worked on numerous projects earning critical acclaim.[ citation needed ] Blue produced Xbox demo video Two to Tango for console's mascots Raven and Robot. [4] [5] [6] Sometime between 2001 to 2003, the studio took interest in The Lego Group's Bionicle theme and produced a short test pitch, under the title "Tahu Nuva vs Kohrak", but Lego had ultimately passed on the project. [7]
The studio worked on the 2004 short film Gopher Broke which was nominated for 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [8]
In 2009, they assisted with the creation of CGI environments in the Academy Award-winning film Avatar .
In 2011, Blur created the opening title sequence for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , based on the first book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and directed by David Fincher. [9] [10]
They created the "Heaven and Hell" sequence for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut . [11]
Blur Studio produced a cinematic trailer for the video game PlanetSide 2 titled "Death is No Excuse." [12] [13] They were also responsible for the cinematic trailers of Batman: Arkham City , Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Knight . They remade the Halo 2 cutscenes for Halo: The Master Chief Collection (2014) [14] and produced the cutscenes for Halo Wars 2 (2017) [15] after doing so for Halo Wars (2009). [16]
In 2016, Miller and the studio returned to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and were involved with the film adaptation of the series which was in development at Sony Pictures until they put the project into turnaround and sold the rights to Paramount Pictures in 2017. [17] The film was released on February 14, 2020 in collaboration with Sega and their animation studio, Marza Animation Planet, and Original Film. A sequel was released on April 8, 2022. [18] [19]
In 2017, Blur created another opening title sequence for the Netflix psychological thriller, Mindhunter based on the 1995 true-crime book, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, produced and directed by David Fincher. [20] [21]
In 2019, the studio produced the animation for the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots , created by Tim Miller, and also produced the second volume of the series. On May 16, 2019, it was announced that Blur Studio's film The Goon, based on the 1999 comic of the same name by Eric Powell, secured a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment. [22]
Year | Title |
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1999 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut |
2004 | Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas |
2009 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron |
2017 | Mindhunter |
2019 | Love, Death & Robots |
2020 | Sonic the Hedgehog |
2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 |
2024 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 |
Year | Title |
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1998 | CarnEvil |
2001 | Quake III Revolution |
2001 | Grand Theft Auto III |
2001 | Return to Castle Wolfenstein |
2002 | Spider-Man |
2002 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
2003 | Midnight Club II |
2003 | Need for Speed: Underground |
2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
2004 | Spider-Man 2 |
2005 | Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition |
2005 | Shadow the Hedgehog |
2006 | Sonic the Hedgehog |
2006 | Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends |
2009 | Halo Wars |
2009 | Prototype |
2010 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 |
2011 | Star Wars: The Old Republic |
2014 | Dark Souls II |
2014 | Halo 2 Anniversary |
2017 | Halo Wars 2 |
2019 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare |
2020 | Valorant |
2022 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II |
2023 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III |
Year | Title |
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2003 | SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D |
2008 | The Simpsons Ride |
Year | Title |
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2009 | Goldfish |
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