Mitchell Kriegman (born June 4, 1952) is an American television writer, director, producer, consultant, story editor, and author.
[1] Kriegman holds patents for a method of hybrid animation, known as Shadowmation, which combines high-definition virtual-environments with puppets and animatronics, composited and rendered in real time.
[4] As a short story writer, his work has been published in The New Yorker, Between C & D, the National Lampoon, Glamour, George Meyer's Army Man magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
[18] He was also a contributor to Michael O'Donoghue's Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979), which included Kriegman's shorts, "Cleavage" and "This is a Man in a Dog Suit".
[19] After leaving Saturday Night Live his work turned markedly toward children's and young adult television programming.
[24] Moving to Nickelodeon, Kriegman became involved in the writing and development of Nicktoons in 1991, including Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show.
[30] Kriegman also wrote for Sesame Street characters in the feature film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999), co-written with Joey Mazzarino, and produced by The Jim Henson Company.
As of 2015, Kriegman is a novelist, instructor, and guest-lecturer, living in the Southern California area,[14][31] and an adjunct professor at the University College Dublin.
[5] Kriegman has taught webseries development and production and sitcom writing at Stony Brook Southampton,[14] lectures at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
[1][56][57] At the community level, Kriegman serves as the executive editor for the Montecito Morning Mojo,[58] he has written for the Santa Barbara Independent[59] and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
[69] Kriegman is credited with the patented design of the hybrid special-effects technique called Shadowmation, that combines live action puppets, animatronics, and computer animation utilizing video game engines and virtual environments.