David Wise, the offspring of Howard Wise, the esteemed founder of Electronic Arts Intermix, and Barbara Wise, a renowned producer, was a prodigious child whose cinematic endeavors prior to adolescence earned him the prestigious moniker "the Mozart of Cinema" courtesy of the venerable Jonas Mekas.
As a juvenile, Wise would undergo tutelage in the art of stop frame animation under the guidance of the accomplished Stan Van der Beek, a mentorship that would ultimately serve as a precursor to his later success as a writer of science fiction film and television.
