Michael Thurmeier
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Michael Thurmeier is a Canadian film director and animator.[2] He is best known for directing the Blue Sky Studios animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), which are the fourth and fifth installments in the Ice Age franchise. Along with Chris Renaud, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the Ice Age short film No Time for Nuts (2006).
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Born | 1975 (age 49–50)[1] Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Years active | 1999–present |
Employer | Blue Sky Studios (1999–2021) |
Early life and education
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]
Career
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).
Filmography
Feature films
Year | Title | Director | Animator | Other | Notes |
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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 |
Short films
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" |
Television
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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2000 | The Sopranos | animator: Blue Sky Studios | episode: "Funhouse" |
References
External links
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