Timothy Reckart

Timothy Reckart is an American animator and director based in New York City specializing in puppet stop motion He is best known for his 2012 film Head Over Heels nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013 Reckart grew up in Tucson Arizona where he attended University High School He studied history and literature at Harvard University where he graduated in 2009 He later attended the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire UK where he graduated in 2012 from the Directing Animation course Reckart is currently based in New York City where he also does work in multiplane collage animation digital2D animation and pixilation