Blur Studio
Blur Studio is an American visual effects, animation and design company. Blur produces 3D character animation, motion design and visual effects for feature films and television, game cinematics and trailers, large format films, location-based entertainment, commercials and integrated media. The company is located in Culver City, California.History
Blur Studio was founded in 1995 by David Stinnett, Tim Miller and Cat Chapman. In 2004, Blur was nominated for its first Academy Award for its original short film, Gopher Broke.
Blur has worked with several directors and writers to develop feature films. They created the "Heaven and Hell" sequence for '.
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.
Blur made several CGI animated cutscenes for games such as, Shadow The Hedgehog, CarnEvil, ', and Sonic the Hedgehog, created all the space sequences in James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar, and produced trailers for LucasArts' ' and '. They were also responsible for the cinematic trailers of ', ' and '. They remade the Halo 2 cutscenes for ' and produced the cutscenes for Halo Wars 2 after doing so for Halo Wars.
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 over at Sony Pictures until they put the project into turnaround and sold the rights to Paramount Pictures in 2017. The film was released in February 14, 2020 in collaboration with Sega and their animation studio, Marza Animation Planet, and Original Film. A sequel is currently in the works aiming for a release on April 8, 2022.
In 2019, the studio did the animation for four episodes of the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots. 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.
They also worked on , which was released on October 25, 2019.
