Chris Wedge
John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for directing the films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), Epic (2013), and Monster Trucks (2016), with the former being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Bunny (1998). He co-founded the animation studio Blue Sky Studios in 1987, prior the studio's parent company 20th Century Fox acquired by Disney in 2019, later its closure in 2021. Wedge has also voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise since the year of 2002.