Michael Thurmeier

Michael "Mike" Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and director at Blue Sky Studios.[2] He is most famous for co-directing Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Thurmeier was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and went to Archbishop M.C. O'Neill High School.[3] Although he liked to draw, he wanted to become a lawyer, but he changed his mind when Aladdin came out in the last year of high school.[3]
After he joined Blue Sky Studios, he 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 a short animated film, No Time for Nuts, starring Scrat for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) was his feature directing debut, followed in 2012 by Ice Age: Continental Drift. Thurmeier returned to direct Ice Age: Collision Course along with Galen T. Chu. It is the fifth film in the franchise, and was released to theaters on July 22, 2016.
== Filmography ==
=== FilmEdit ===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1999	Fight Club 	animator: Blue Sky Studios 	
2002	Ice Age 	writer: additional story/lead animator	
2002	Gone Nutty 	animator/3-D layout artist 	short film
2005	Robots 	supervising animator 	
2005	Summer Belongs Movie 	supervising animator 	
2006	Ice Age: The Meltdown 	supervising animator 	
2006	No Time for Nuts 	director (with Chris Renaud) 	short film
2008	Horton Hears a Who! 	senior supervising animator 	
2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	co-director (with Carlos Saldanha) 	
2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift 	director (with Steve Martino) 	
2016	Ice Age: Collision Course 	director (with Galen Thu Chu) 	
=== Television ===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
2000	The Sopranos	animator: Blue Sky Studios	episode: "Funhouse"