Mike Jittlov (born June 8, 1948) is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature length movie using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. He is best known for the 1987 feature The Wizard of Speed and Time feature-length film, based on his 1979 short film of the same name.
Born in Los Angeles, Jittlov became a math-language major at UCLA. Jittlov took an animation c...
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Mike Jittlov (born June 8, 1948) is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature length movie using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. He is best known for the 1987 feature The Wizard of Speed and Time feature-length film, based on his 1979 short film of the same name.
Born in Los Angeles, Jittlov became a math-language major at UCLA. Jittlov took an animation course to satisfy his art requirement. He made a super-8 film, The Leap, enlarged to 16mm to participate in film festivals in the early 70s. Jittlov entered a 16mm film made for his UCLA class, Good Grief, into Academy Awards competition. That short made it to the professional finals for nomination, the first of several of his short films to do so. Afterwards, Jittlov bought his own 16mm movie camera, designed his own multi-plane animation system for $200, and began his career.
Some of his other original film shorts, including The Interview,...
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