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Mike Thurmeier | |
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| Born | Michael Thurmeier 1975 (age 47–48) [1] Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Animator, film director |
| Notable work | Ice Age: Continental Drift Ice Age: Collision Course |
Michael Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and film director. [2] He is best known for directing the films Ice Age: Continental Drift and Ice Age: Collision Course .
Thurmeier was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and went to Archbishop M.C. O'Neill High School. [3] Although he enjoyed drawing for much of his early life, he was more interested in becoming a lawyer, but he changed his mind after seeing Aladdin in his last year of high school. [3]
After he joined Blue Sky Studios, Thurmeier served as an animator for Fight Club and The Sopranos . He later served as a supervising animator for Ice Age , Robots , and Ice Age: The Meltdown .
His first directing job was in 2006, when he co-directed the short animated film No Time for Nuts , starring Scrat for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He was a co-director on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), and made his feature directing debut with Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012). Thurmeier returned to direct Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).
| Year | Title | Director | Animator | Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Fight Club | No | Yes | No | Animator: Blue Sky Studios |
| 2002 | Ice Age | No | Lead | Yes | Additional Story, Lead Animator |
| 2005 | Robots | No | Supervising | No | Supervising Animator |
| 2006 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | No | Supervising | No | Supervising Animator |
| 2008 | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who | No | Senior Supervising | No | Senior Supervising Animator |
| 2009 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Co-Director | No | No | |
| 2012 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | Yes | No | No | |
| 2016 | Ice Age: Collision Course | Yes | No | Yes | Voice of Gravedigger Beaver/Party Molehog |
| 2019 | Spies in Disguise | No | No | Yes | Senior Creative Team |
| Year | Title | Director | Animator | Layout Artist | Other | Notes |
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| 2002 | Gone Nutty | No | Yes | 3-D | No | |
| 2006 | No Time for Nuts | Yes | No | No | No | Also 4-D extended version |
| 2010 | Scrat's Continental Crack-Up | Yes | No | No | No | Act as Ice Age: Continental Drift Teaser Trailers #1 & #2 [4] [5] |
| 2011 | Scrat's Continental Crack-Up Part 2 | Yes | No | No | No | |
| 2015 | Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe | Yes | No | No | No | Acts as extended Ice Age: Collision Course Teaser Trailer [6] |
| 2016 | Scrat: Spaced Out | Uncredited | No | No | No | Ice Age: Collision Course archive and deleted footage [7] |
| 2022 | Ice Age: Scrat Tales | No | No | No | Yes | Disney+ Original Short Films; Ice Age Creative Trust; Story - Episode: "Nut the End" |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2000 | The Sopranos | animator: Blue Sky Studios | episode: "Funhouse" |
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron, shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It produced 13 feature films, the first being Ice Age, released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox, and the final one being Spies in Disguise, released in 2019.
Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to Ice Age (2002) and the second installment in the Ice Age film series. The film was directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay written by Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, and Jim Hecht, and a story by Gaulke and Swallow. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first Ice Age film, with newcomers Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah joining the cast. In the film, Manny, Sid, and Diego attempt to escape an impending flood, during which Manny finds love.
John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for directing the films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), Epic (2013), and Monster Trucks (2016). He also wrote and directed the short film Bunny (1998), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wedge co-founded the now-defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios and has voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise since 2002.
Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.
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No Time for Nuts is a 2006 American animated short film from Blue Sky Studios, starring Scrat from Ice Age. Directed by Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier, it was debuted on November 21, 2006, on the DVD and Blu-ray release of Ice Age: The Meltdown. It follows Scrat on a pursuit after his acorn, which accidentally sends forward in time by a frozen time machine. No Time for Nuts was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and also won an Annie Award.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 2009 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and the third installment in the Ice Age film series. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Mike Thurmeier, from a screenplay written by Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss, and Yoni Brenner, based on a story conceived by Jason Carter Eaton. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first two films and Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah reprise their roles from The Meltdown, with Simon Pegg joining them in the role of a weasel named Buck. The story has Manny and Ellie preparing for their baby. Sid the Sloth is kidnapped by a female Tyrannosaurus after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the herd to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs underneath the ice.
Ice Age is an American media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios. The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Chris Wedge, who were the only constant cast members for the original films.
Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and the fourth installment in the Ice Age film series. The film was directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier from a screenplay written by Michael Berg and Jason Fuchs, based on a story conceived by Berg and co-producer Lori Forte. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Queen Latifah, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from previous films, with Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Drake, and Nicki Minaj voicing new characters. The plot focuses on Scrat mistakenly sending Manny, Sid, and Diego adrift on an iceberg with Sid's Granny and causing them to face a gang of pirates led by Captain Gutt on Earth.
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