Galen T. Chu is a additional story artist and animator of the first Ice Age, and did animation work for the shorts Gone Nutty and No Time For Nuts, served as one of the animation supervisors on Ice Age: The Meltdown and as the supervising animator alone on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. He was also the co-director of Ice Age: Collision Course.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director and writer
- 13 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Galen T. Chu's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 4 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
Grounded 0 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 1
Gentle 4 · Charged 0 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 4
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Galen T. Chu's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 11 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Disney+ (11).
- Ice Age (2002) · writer
- Rio (2011) · animation supervisor
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) · animation supervisor
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) · animation supervisor
- Horton Hears a Who! (2008) · visual effects
- Epic (2013) · animation supervisor
- Robots (2005) · lead animator
- Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022) · writer
- Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) · visual effects
- Scrat: Spaced Out (2016) · director
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) · director
Subscription and free streaming for Galen T. Chu's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.

Ice Age: Boiling Point (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)

Ice Age: Scrat Tales(2022)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
Scrat: Spaced Out(2016)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Epic(2013)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Rio(2011)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Surviving Sid(2008)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Horton Hears a Who!(2008)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Ice Age: The Meltdown(2006)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Robots(2005)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Gone Nutty(2002)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Ice Age(2002)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all filmsAnubis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 16 titles, 14 of them dated from 2002 to 2022.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Galen T. Chu's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of all 12; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 58th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th8
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 13 titles divides audiences: 11 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser11
- Broadly Agreed1
Reviewers score the atmosphere 59/100 and the pacing 59/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Galen T. Chu work with?
People who share at least 2 of Galen T. Chu's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Chris Wedge shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Michael ThurmeierShared titles: Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Ice Age (2002)See all 4 shared titles with Michael Thurmeier

Writers
- Michael J. WilsonShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Ice Age (2002)See all 3 shared titles with Michael J. Wilson

- Yoni BrennerShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Surviving Sid (2008)See all 3 shared titles with Yoni Brenner

- Michael BergShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Ice Age (2002)See all 3 shared titles with Michael Berg

- Aubrey SolomonShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Aubrey Solomon
Actors
- Chris WedgeShared titles: Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Surviving Sid (2008), Ice Age (2002)See all 5 shared titles with Chris Wedge

- John LeguizamoShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Surviving Sid (2008), Ice Age (2002)See all 3 shared titles with John Leguizamo

- Denis LearyShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Ice Age (2002)See all 2 shared titles with Denis Leary

- Karen DisherShared titles: Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Surviving Sid (2008)See all 2 shared titles with Karen Disher

Composers and editors
- James PalumboShared titles: Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)See all 2 shared titles with James Palumbo
- Erin CrackelShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Surviving Sid (2008)See all 2 shared titles with Erin Crackel
- John DebneyShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)See all 2 shared titles with John Debney

Producers
- Lori ForteShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Surviving Sid (2008), Ice Age (2002)See all 4 shared titles with Lori Forte

- Carlos SaldanhaShared titles: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Scrat: Spaced Out (2016), Surviving Sid (2008), Ice Age (2002)See all 4 shared titles with Carlos Saldanha

- John C. DonkinShared titles: Surviving Sid (2008), Ice Age (2002)See all 2 shared titles with John C. Donkin


