John C. Donkin: John C. Donkin. Producer: Robots. John earned an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as the producer of Gone Nutty, an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular Scrat character from the "Ice Age" films. Donkin came to Blue Sky Studios in 1998 as the managing technical director. One of his first projects was to help complete the Academy Award winning short film Bunny. He developed the production...