Eli Noyes

Eli Noyes, born as Eliot Noyes Jr. ( born 1942 in Washington, DC) is an American animator, graphic designer and director. His animated short film Clay or the Origin of Species in 1966 was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".

Life and work

Eli Noyes is the son of former IBM design director Eliot Noyes. He holds a college degree in English at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1964. He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1965 he got to know Derek Lamb, the animation at Harvard University teaching, and occasionally attend his courses. At this time, Noyes began to deal also with film animation. 1966 was his knetanimierter short film Clay or the Origin of Species, in which he takes up the subject of evolution, awarded an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.

1970 turned Noyes and his then- partner Claudia Weill a documentary about the International Design Conference in Aspen, which was also his father attended. In the 1970s he experimented with other things with sand animations. On a trick table in his New York loft, the short film Sandman was born. The characters from the movie he used subsequently in a series of short animations sand, which he for the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop ) anfertigte. They each had a letter of the alphabet on the topic and were broadcast from 1974 for many years on Sesame Street. In 1978, Noyes with Kit and Geraldine Laybourne, which specializes in children's films production company Early Bird Specials. The first customers was Nickelodeon. Geraldine Laybourne joined soon after to Nickelodeon, while her husband continued with Noyes worked together. In 1983, she founded the production company Noyes & Laybourne that produced the pilot episode of the cartoon series Brain Games in the same year.

Noyes worked as an animator for companies such as Pixar, Disney and HBO. In the 1990s he was involved with Noyes & Laybourne in the production of Nickelodeon children's series Eureeka 's Castle as well as the animated MTV series Liquid Television. He also produced numerous commercials and worked as a web designer for Oxygen Networks. In 1994 he published in the children's book series Living Books interactive CD -ROM Ruff 's Bone.

Noyes resulted in two documentaries animation director: 2008 in the film Under Our Skin, which takes up the topic of Lyme disease and was on the Oscar shortlist, and in the following year in The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, the 2010 Oscar nominated.

2011 Noyes designed the 16teilige stamp series Go Green for the United States Postal Service, which shows examples of environmentally conscious behavior in everyday life.

Together with the producer and video graphics designer Ralph Guggenheim ( born 1951 ) operates Noyes in San Francisco, which specializes in animation production company Alligator Planet LLC.

Noyes lives with his wife, the artist Augusta Talbot, in Noe Valley district of San Francisco. In 2009, she issued a joint exhibition in the garage Galery in Berkeley, were shown at the among other sculptures by Noyes.

Publications

  • Ruff 's Bone. Living Books, Random House Childrens Books, Novato, 1994, ISBN 1-57135-107-8.

Filmography

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