Morris Lessmoreīill Joyce lives with his son Jackson Edward Joyce in Shreveport, Louisiana. Newsweek called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the new millennium. On February 26, 2012, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, " The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Joyce received the 2008 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the "literary intellectual heritage of Louisiana." The award was presented to him on October 4, 2008, during a ceremony at the 2008 Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge. Morris Lessmore during a parade in his and Brandon Oldenburg's honor held in downtown Shreveport. Joyce in March 2012 holding an Oscar for his short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Awards and accolades File:William Joyce Oscar Parade Shreveport Louisiana.jpg He is selling prints of his unpublished Mardi Gras The New Yorker cover through the foundation with all profit going to Louisiana artists and arts organizations. In 2006, Joyce founded the Katrinarita Gras Foundation to raise money for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He has helped bring a Peter Pan Centennial exhibit, an Art of Robots exhibit, and Faces of Katrina. It began in 1998 and is currently still traveling nationally.Īrtspace is a gallery located in Shreveport that is run under the guidance of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. This exhibition is run by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature. In both 19 Joyce’s Santa Calls books were inspiration for the Christmas displays for Saks Fifth Avenue on 5th Avenue. His book The Leaf Men was adapted by Blue Sky Studios into a 2013 computer-animated feature film titled Epic, with Joyce as writer, executive producer, and production designer. The studio released in January 2012 another app, Numberlys, with a short film and a book announced to come later. A book adaption was released in summer 2012.
The studio produced an Oscar-winning animated short film and an iPad app The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
In August 2009, Joyce and Reel FX co-founder Brandon Oldenburg founded a Shreveport-based animation and visual effects studio MOONBOT Studios. In 2007, Disney released Meet the Robinsons, a movie based on his book A Day with Wilbur Robinson, to which Joyce served as one of the executive producers of the film along with John Lasseter and Clark Spencer.
Was the numberlys an influence for the movie robots series#
It was released in 2012 and is based on Joyce's book series and the short film Man in the Moon, directed by Joyce. The first of those projects, The Guardians of Childhood was developed by DreamWorks Animation into the feature film, Rise of the Guardians. The new company announced plans to make three feature films: The Guardians of Childhood, The Mischevians, and Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures With the Family Lazardo. In 2005 Joyce and Reel FX launched a joint venture, Aimesworth Amusements, to produce feature films, video games and books. Besides being one of the creators, Joyce also served as a producer and production designer. In 2001, after Joyce and Ice Age director Chris Wedge failed to adapt one of Joyce's books to the screen, Santa Calls, they both came up with the idea for the animated film Robots (2005). Joyce created conceptual characters for Disney/ Pixar's feature films Toy Story (1995) and A Bug's Life (1998). His second television series, George Shrinks, used to air daily on PBS stations. Joyce has received three Emmys for Rolie Polie Olie, an animated series based on his series of children's books that aired on the Disney Channel.
Īlso, he is a descendant of James Joyce, one of Ireland's most prominent writers. Joyce is currently working on a series of novels and picture books, The Guardians of Childhood, consisting of a total of 13 books. He has written and illustrated over fifty children's books including George Shrinks, Santa Calls, Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo, Rolie Polie Olie, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs and A Day with Wilbur Robinson. 7.1.2 The Guardians of Childhood series.
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