Mike Thurmeier

Michael "Mike" Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and director at Blue Sky Studios. 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. 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.
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==
===Film===
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 	
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 T. Chu) 	
===Television===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
2000	The Sopranos	animator: Blue Sky Studios	episode: "Funhouse"
Category:1965 births
Category:Blue Sky Studios people
Category:Canadian animators
Category:Canadian animated film directors
Category:People from Regina, Saskatchewan