Timothy Hittle
Timothy "Tim" Lee Hittle (born April 14, 1958 in Columbus ) is an American animator .
Life
Hittle studied at Vincennes University in Indiana until 1982 . From the late 1970s onwards, he started making Super-8 clay animation films around the character Jay Clay in his spare time. The film Fracas aired on Saturday Night Live in 1981 as part of the Home Movie series. Hittle applied for an ad looking for animators in the 1980s following a friend's tip. The ad was from Art Clokey , who hired Hittle. His first work at Clokeys Premavision Studios was the television series The All-New Gumby in 1988, which was realized in clay animation. Hittle first worked as a stop-motion animator in television and shot his independent stop-motion film The Potato Hunter in 1991 around the character Jay Clay and his dog Blue. The next two-character film, Canhead , came out in 1996 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1997.
At Walt Disney Studios , Hittle worked with Tim Burton on the films Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach from 1993 . He then came to Pixar , where he was involved as a computer animator on The Big Crawl and Toy Story 2 . Other works for Disney and Pixar were The Incredibles , Partly Cloudy , Toy Story 3 and The Monster Uni . In 2010, Hittle released his latest directorial work, The Quiet Life . The short film about the character Jay Clay was in production for ten years.
Filmography (selection)
- 1981: Fracas
- 1988: The All-New Gumby (TV series)
- 1991: The Potato Hunter
- 1993: Nightmare Before Christmas
- 1994: Bump in the Night (TV series, one episode)
- 1996: James and the Giant Peach
- 1996: Canhead
- 1998: Arthur
- 1998: A Bug's Life (A Bug's Life)
- 1999: Toy Story 2
- 2001: Monkeybone
- 2002: Phantom Investigators
- 2004: The Incredibles (The Incredibles)
- 2006: Gumby Dharma
- 2008: WALL E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL E)
- 2009: Partly Cloudy (Cloudy)
- 2010: Toy Story 3
- 2010: The Quiet Life
- 2013: The Monster Uni (Monsters University)
Awards
- 1991: Golden Space Needle Awards, Seattle International Film Festival , for The Potato Hunter
- 1997: Oscar nomination, Best Animated Short, for Canhead
- 1997: Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival , for Canhead
- 1997: WAC Award, World Animation Celebration , for Canhead
literature
- Hittle, Timothy (Tim) Lee . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's Who in Animated Cartoons . Applause Theater & Cinema Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7 , p. 142.
Web links
- Timothy Hittle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Timothy Hittles Page Jay Clay
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hittle, Timothy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hittle, Timothy Lee (full name); Hittle, Tim (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American animator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Columbus |