Eli Noyes

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

Live and act

Eli Noyes is the son of former IBM design director Eliot Noyes . He completed a degree in English from Harvard University , which he graduated in 1964. He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1965 he met Derek Lamb , who taught animation at Harvard University, and took occasional classes. At this time Noyes also began to work with film animation. In 1966, his clay- animated short film Clay or the Origin of Species , in which he takes up the subject of evolution , was awarded an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.

In 1970 Noyes and his then partner Claudia Weill made a documentary about the International Design Conference in Aspen , in which his father also took part. In the 1970s, he experimented with sand animation, among other things . The short film Sandman was made at a trick table in his New York loft . He then used the characters from the film in a series of short sand animations that he made for the Children's Television Workshop (now the Sesame Workshop ). They each had a letter of the alphabet on the topic and were broadcast on Sesame Street for many years from 1974 . In 1978 Noyes founded the children's film production company Early Bird Specials with Kit and Geraldine Laybourne . Nickelodeon was one of the first clients . Geraldine Laybourne moved to Nickelodeon soon after, while her husband continued to work with Noyes. In 1983 they founded the production company Noyes & Laybourne , which produced the pilot episode of the animated film series Braingames in the same year .

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

Noyes directed two animated documentaries: In 2008 the film Under Our Skin , which took up the subject of Lyme disease and made it onto the Oscar shortlist, and the following year The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers , which was awarded in 2010 for was nominated for an Oscar.

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

Together with the producer and video graphic designer Ralph Guggenheim (* 1951), Noyes runs the animation production company Alligator Planet LLC in San Francisco .

Noyes lives in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife, artist Augusta Talbot . In 2009 they gave a joint exhibition at the Garage Gallery in Berkeley , where sculptures by Noyes were shown, among other things.

Publications

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

Filmography

• 1965: Clay or the Origin of Species
• 1966: alphabet
• 1970: Aspen: 70
• 1973: In a box
• 1973: Sandman
• from 1974: Sand Alphabet in Sesame Street
• 1976: Peanut butter & jelly
• 1977: Glove Story
• 1980: Worm Dance
• 1983: Braingames
• 1986: The Great Ape Activity Tape
• 1986: Clifford's sing along adventure
• 1991: Liquid Television
• 2008: Under Our Skin
• 2009: The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers ( The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers )

Web links

• Literature by and about Eli Noyes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Eli Noyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage
• Biography and photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eliot Noyes Jr. explore.bfi.org.uk, accessed January 5, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alice Twemlow: A Look Back at Aspen, 1970 ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Design Observer Group, accessed January 5, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Eli Noyes ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. beyondtheperf.com, accessed January 5, 2013.  
4. ↑ Tribute to Derek Lamb ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. awn.com, accessed January 5, 2013.  
5. ↑ Animating Under the Camera awn.com, accessed January 5, 2013.
6. ↑ Geraldine Laybourne ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. shemadeit.org, accessed January 5, 2013.  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Nellie Bowles: Artist draws on SF living for 'Go Green' stamps In: San Francisco Chronicle April 11, 2011.
8. ↑ About Us alligatorplanet.com, accessed January 5, 2013.
9. ↑ Eli Noyes, Augusta Talbot, Counts & Constructs happenstand.com, accessed January 5, 2013.