Stop Animation Pioneer Was 81

Eli Noyes, the Oscar-nominated animator that reinvented stop-motion filmmaking with his cutting-edge use clay and sand, has actually passed away. He was 81.

Noyes passed away Saturday of difficulties from prostate cancer cells at his home in San Francisco, Plaything Tale manufacturer Ralph Guggenheim revealed. Both developed Alligator Earth in 2003 to produce movie, print and media jobs.

As an undergraduate pupil at Harvard College, Noyes obtained his Oscar election for his 8-minute computer animated movie Clay or the Beginning of Types (1965 ), which developed clay stop animation as a style and would certainly affect the job of Wallace and Gromit designers Peter Lord and David Sproxton.

For 2 various other brief movies, he used sand animation for Sandman (1973) and pixelated freeze frame for Peanut Butter and Jelly (1976 ).

Noyes later on formed the appearance and spirit of kids’s shows in the very early days of cable, specifically for Nickelodeon. The rebranded network’s initial program, Pinwheel, included his computer animated pinwheels made with sand.

In 1983, he and animation manufacturer Package Laybourne introduced Noyes & & Laybourne Enterprises, an independent workshop situated in Soho in New York City City. Their firm added lively network IDs to Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite while developing animation for such programs as Eureeka’s Castle and Gullah Gullah Island.

And for MTV, they generated network graphics and animation for Fluid Tv, a display collection that introduced Mike Court’s Beavis and Butt-head and Peter Chung’s Aeon Change.

Eliot Fette Noyes Jr. was born upon Oct. 18, 1942, in Amherst, Massachusetts. His moms and dads were modernist engineer Eliot Noyes (among the “Harvard Five”) and indoor developer Molly Duncan Weed.

After leaving university, he and Claudia Weil co-directed (non-animated) docudramas, consisting of 2 in 1970: This Is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham, a movie theater verité take a look at a Black family members’s life in a shanty town home in Washington, D.C., and Aspen: 1970, which focused on a generational clash of engineers.

In 1988, Noyes and Laybourne signed up with Colossal Photo, understood for its unique results and animation strategies. Noyes produced Ruff’s Bone, an innovative interactive CD-ROM item for Broderbund Software program, at Colossal in 1994.

Noyes and his family members had actually transferred to San Francisco in 1991, and he would certainly work with interactive tasks at Pixar and with Disney Network and Imagineers developers to produce Zoog Disney, a mid-day shows block for youngsters that integrated television and the web.

He after that brought that experience to the supposed “convergence network” Oxygen as innovative supervisor in the late 1990s. (Package Laybourne’s better half, Geraldine Laybourne, co-created Oxygen Media.)

At Alligator Earth, Noyes was animation supervisor on the Oscar-nominated docudrama One of the most Harmful Guy in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Government Documents (2009 ). And his “Go Green” stamps for the united state Post office, produced in 2011, included straightforward activities every person can require to save natural deposits and advertise the wellness of the atmosphere.

Survivors include his better half, Augusta; kids Isaac and Abigail; and granddaughter Esme. Contributions in his memory can be made to International Rivers or the Union of Natives and Allies.