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Michael Thurmeier is a Canadian film director and animator. He is best known for directing the Blue Sky Studios animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).
Michael Thurmeier is known for Ice Age (2002), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and Spies in Disguise (2019).
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Ice Age: Collision Course: Directed by Michael Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu. With Stephanie Beatriz, Robert Cardone, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Adam Devine. When Scrat's acorn sends an asteroid to Earth, the Herd must find a way to stop the asteroid from hitting Earth with the help of a returning friend.
- Michael Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu
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Apr 22, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated animator and director Michael Thurmeier has inked with Range Media Partners. Thurmeier began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, working on special...
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Michael Thurmeier is a Canadian animator and film director. 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. 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.
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).
Michael Thurmeier is the Director of the blockbusters Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Co-Director of the global smash and BAFTA nominated Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) - which earned a combined total of over $2 billion USD.
Apr 22, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated animator and director Michael Thurmeier has inked with Range Media Partners. Thurmeier began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, working on special...
