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Galen T. Chu

Galen T. Chu

Director and writer

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.

Works as
Director and writer
Titles
13 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 63 days to Oct 26Up 46% in 30 days

What are Galen T. Chu's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 4 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

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

Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful
5
Absurd
3
Thrilling
2
Warm
2
Hopeful
1
Other
2

How their films end

  • 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).

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)

    Animation Director

  • Ice Age: Scrat Tales(2022)

    Show 6 episodes · Story

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
  • Scrat: Spaced Out(2016)

    Co-Director

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
  • Ice Age: Collision Course(2016)

    Co-Director

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
  • Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Co-Director

  • Epic(2013)

    Animation Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • Ice Age: Continental Drift(2012)

    Visual Effects

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
  • Rio(2011)

    Animation Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs(2009)

    Animation Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Surviving Sid(2008)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Horton Hears a Who!(2008)

    Visual Effects

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown(2006)

    Animation Supervisor

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
  • Robots(2005)

    Lead Animator

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
  • Gone Nutty(2002)

    Animation · Layout · Visual Effects

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
  • Ice Age(2002)

    Additional Storyboarding · Additional Writing · Animation · Visual Effects · Writer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
  • Anubis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

Career shape

A full career of 16 titles, 14 of them dated from 2002 to 2022.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing5 of 16: 5 only directing, 0 with another roleWriting1 of 16: 1 only writing, 0 with another roleOther crew10 of 16: 10 only other crew, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score74th

By decade

2000s7 · crew2010s6 · crew2020s1 · crew

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.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

58thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Approval · how many liked their films

59thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Reach · how many have seen their films

88thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Midcredits score across 13 titles, by percentile

  • 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.

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