12 Facts About Mike Jittlov

Mike Jittlov was born on June 8,1948 and is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature-length film using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation.

Mike Jittlov is best known for the 1988 feature-length film The Wizard of Speed and Time, based on his 1979 short film of the same name.

Mike Jittlov took an animation course to satisfy his art requirement.

Mike Jittlov made a super-8 film, The Leap, enlarged to 16mm to participate in film festivals in the early 1970s.

Mike Jittlov entered a 16mm film made for his UCLA class, Good Grief, into Academy Awards competition.

In 1978, Mike Jittlov co-starred on Disney's two-hour TV extravaganza, "Mickey's 50", with the short film "Mouse Mania", creating and animating the first stop-motion Mickey Mouse, along with 1,000 other Disney toys marching around a psychiatrist's office.

Since Disney did not usually allow individual creators to receive credit on their television productions Mike Jittlov put his and partner Deven Cheregino's name on the toys in the final production number, where they could not be easily edited out.

Mike Jittlov created the inaugural short film played on the cable TV Disney Channel.

Mike Jittlov is best known for his feature film The Wizard of Speed and Time, which he directed and starred in.

Mike Jittlov later worked as a special effects technician on the film Ghost, and in fan films including Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline.

Mike Jittlov maintains a distinctive appearance at science fiction conventions by wearing his traditional green jacket and green shoes, similar to the ones seen in The Wizard of Speed and Time.

Mike Jittlov was an early Internet user, with his own website, and frequent poster to his own Usenet group, alt.