John Donkin

John Donkin received an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as producer of Gone Nutty an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular character Scrat from the Ice Age films Donkin joined Blue Sky Studios in 1998 as a technical and administrative director One of his first projects was helping to complete the Oscarwinning short film Bunny He developed the production line for Blue Skys first featurelength animated film project Ice Age before becoming an associate producer on the film Donkin went on to produce several other Blue Sky Studios projects including Rio and Rio 2 which became a globally successful franchise Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs which grossed over 887 million worldwide Ice Age Continental Drift Robots and the Oscarnominated short Blue Sky No Time for Nuts Donkin began his career in computer animation in 1983 where he studied with the worldrenowned CGRG Computer Graphics Research Group at Ohio State University He went on to become a senior animator at the pioneering computer graphics company CranstonCsuri Productions