birth_place birth_date notable_works birthname article_title name occupation
regina , saskatchewan , canada 1975 '' , '' ice age : continental drift '' ice age : dawn of the dinosaurs '' michael thurmeier mike thurmeier
 mike thurmeier director , animator
mike thurmeier

michael `` mike '' thurmeier is a canadian-american animator and director at blue sky studios .
he is most famous for co-directing ' and ' .
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 '' '' .
his first directing job was in 2006 when he co-directed a short animated film , `` no time for nuts '' , starring scrat . '
-lrb- 2009 -rrb- was his feature directing debut , followed in 2012 by ' .
