Mike Judge
Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and director best known as the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head and co-creator of King of the Hill. He studied physics at the University of California, San Diego before pivoting to animation, creating the short film Frog Baseball in 1992, which MTV developed into the full Beavis and Butt-Head series. He also created the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley and wrote and directed the films Office Space and Idiocracy.
“We would find people like Mike Judge at animation festivals... He would go to places where a lot of this young talent who had ideas in their head, and they were animators, but they didn't want to go to Hollywood and get immersed in the factory animation scene.”
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