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    In the late 1970s, Chris Wedge worked at MAGI, an early computer technology company, where he met Eugene Troubetzkoy and helped produce animated commercials. This led to work from Disney on the film Tron. As MAGI declined, Wedge and others from MAGI, including Troubetzkoy, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, David Brown, and Alison Brown, founded Blue Sky Studios in 1987 to continue their computer animation work.

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    In the late 1970s, Chris Wedge worked at MAGI, an early computer technology company, where he met Eugene Troubetzkoy and helped produce animated commercials. This led to work from Disney on the film Tron. As MAGI declined, Wedge and others from MAGI, including Troubetzkoy, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, David Brown, and Alison Brown, founded Blue Sky Studios in 1987 to continue their computer animation work.

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    198089: Formation and early computer animation

    In the late 1970s, Chris Wedge, then an undergraduate at Purchase College studying film, was
    employed by Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. (MAGI). MAGI was an early computer
    technology company which produced SynthaVision, a software application that could replicate
    the laws of physics to measure nuclear radiation rays for U.S. government contracts.[3]:12-13 At
    MAGI, Wedge met Eugene Troubetzkoy, who held a Ph.D in theoretical physics and was one of
    the first computer animators. Using his background in character animation, Wedge helped MAGI
    produce animation for television commercials, which eventually led to an offer from Walt Disney
    Productions to produce animation for the film Tron (1982). For Tron, MAGI hired Michael
    Ferraro, a systems architect, and Carl Ludwig, an electrical engineer.[3]:13 As MAGI's success
    began to decline, the company employed David Brown from CBS/Fox Video to be a marketing
    executive and Alison Brown to be a managing producer.[3]:12-13 After MAGI shut down, the six
    individualsWedge, Troubetzkoy, Ferraro, Ludwig, David Brown, and Alison Brownfounded
    Blue Sky Studios in February 1987 to continue their work in computer animation.[3]:13[4]

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