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June 1, 2025
The Animation Hall of Fames 2025 Inductees!
The Animation Hall of Fame is proud to announce animations highest honor, the 2025 Animation Hall of Fames Inductees. They are:
Johan Louis “Joop” Geesink
Stop Motion Animation Pioneer, Studio Founder/Owner, & Entrepreneur
Robert Emerson “Bob” Clampett Sr.
Animator, Animation Producer, Director, & Studio Founder/Owner
Emily Laverne Hardy
Animator, Legendary Animation Character Designer, & Cartoonist
Myron “Grim” Natwick
Animator, Director, & Legendary Animation Character Designer
Richard James “Dick” Lundy
Pioneering Character Personality Animator, & Director
March 2, 2025
And The Winners Are!
The Animation Hall of Fame is proud to announce and congratulate this year's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar winners for Best Animated Film and Best Animated Short Film. The winner for Best Animated Film was awarded to
Flow, which was directed by Gints Zilbalodis and produced by Gints Zilbalodis and Matiss Kaza. The winner for Best Animated Short Film was awarded to
In the Shadow of the Cypress which was produced and directed by Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. Once again congratulations!
January 5, 2025
Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis'
Flow Wins The Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film!
The Animation Hall of Fame is extremely happy to announce that the 82nd Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film has gone to director Gints Zilbalodi for
Flow.
July 11, 2024
AHOF's
Journey Into IMAGIMATION Traveling Exhibition Opens at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama!
We are proud to announce that AHOF's traveling exhibition
Journey Into IMAGIMATION: Over a Hundred Years of Animation Art From Around The World has officially opened at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama! It will run from July 11, 2024 to September 29, 2024. More information on the exhibition can be found by visiting the Huntsville Museum of Art’s website at
https://hsvmuseum.org/ . We would like to thank the Huntsville Museum of Art for allowing AHOF's first world class traveling exhibition to be displayed at another one of the United States distinguished art museum venues.
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May 4, 2024
The Animation Hall of Fames 2024 Inductees!
The Animation Hall of Fame is proud to announce animations highest honor, the 2024 Animation Hall of Fames Inductees. They are:
Pete Peterson (Svend Aage Pedersen)
Stop Motion Animator & Special Effects Technician
John Randolph Bray
AAnimation Producer, Director, & Studio Founder/Owner
Elizabeth “Bessie” Mae Kelley
First Woman Animator & Director
Hugh Harman
Animation Producer, Director, & Studio Founder/Owner
Rudolf Carl Ising
Animation Producer, Director, & Studio Founder/Owner
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March 25, 2024
Animation, Film, and Media Creator Eliot "Eli" Fette Noyes Jr. has Passed Away!
The Animation Hall Of Fame family is sad to acknowledge the passing of Animation, Film, and Media Creator Eliot "Eli" Fette Noyes Jr. He died on March 23, 2024, he was 81.
Eliot Fette Noyes, Jr. was born on October 18, 1942, in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of noted "Harvard Five" architect Eliot Noyes, interior designer Molly Duncan Weed Noyes, and the brother of Fred Noyes. During his youth he grew up in an environment imbued with art and music.
For his high school studies he attended the independent Putney School in Putney, Vermont. During his time at Putney he started creating animated images in short experiments, which led to creating extremely short films in clay animation, making him one of the early animators to do so.
After graduating from Putney in 1960, he was accepted into Harvard University. During his time at there, Noyes was mentored by National Film Board of Canada animator Derek Lamb. For his senior project he created the eight-minute animated film
Clay or the Origin of Species which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and remains a classic of stop-motion filmmaking. He graduated from Harvard University in 1964.
After graduating he started to establish himself not only as an animation filmmaker, but also a documentarian filmmaker as well. Throughout the 1960's and into the 1970's, Noyes worked on numerous productions. He filmed documentaries with Claudia Weil, including
This Is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham, a cinéma vérité film of the life of a Black family in Washington, D.C., and
Aspen: 1970, which concerned a "generational clash of architects". Noyes also used sand for his animations, including in his 1973 work
Sandman and the 1976 pixelated stop motion
Peanut Butter and Jelly. He also designed animated sand pinwheels for the Nickelodeon show
Pinwheel and created the sand alphabet for
Sesame Street.
In 1983, Noyes partnered with Kit Laybourne and together they established Noyes and Laybourne Enterprises and opened their studio in New York City. One of their first cable tv series was
Braingames on HBO, after which they created
Eureeka's Castle and
Gullah Gullah Island for Nickelodeon. They then created ten-second channel IDs for Nickelodeon that were rotoscoped live action mixed with various forms of experimental animation techniques.
Also, during this time Noyes would marry Augusta Talbot and they would eventually have two children, Isaac and Abigail.
In January 1989, Noyes & Laybourne where purchased and merged with extremely successful San Francisco animation company Colossal Pictures, officially becoming their East Coast division. During this time Noyes produced and directed animation and network graphics for MTV's
Liquid Television, as well as commercials for several major brands. Also, in association with Colossal, Noyes directed and illustrated the 1994 interactive CD-ROM
Ruff's Bone for Living Books, a project of Broderbund and Random House. He also directed and developed
The Blockheads, a series of two-minute animations.
In 1991, Colossal Pictures and Noyes had decided to close the New York City facility down and produce all productions at the San Francisco facility. So that same year he and his family moved to San Francisco, where he lived from that point on.
Always early to embrace technology, Eli created
Ruff's Bone (1994) at Colossal, a groundbreaking interactive CD-ROM product for Broderbund Software. He moved on to work on interactive projects at Pixar, and with programmers at the Disney Channel and The Disney Imagineers to create one of the first program blocks that combined TV and the internet, ZOOG Disney. Eli subsequently brought that experience to the first "convergence network" Oxygen, as creative director in the late 90's.
Noyes partnered with
Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim in 2003, forming Alligator Planet, where he created film, print and media works including short films, and animated segments for documentary films including Oscar nominee
The Most Dangerous Man in America (2003). His 2011
Go Green stamps for the US Postal Service featured simple actions everyone can take to conserve natural resources and promote the health of the environment.
Throughout his career Noyes loved music, mastering the oboe, accordion and – most of all – Jazz piano, which he continued to play almost until the end of his life.
Noyes died in San Francisco on March 23, 2024, at the age of 81, owing to complications from prostate cancer.
He is survived by his wife Augusta Talbot, son Isaac, daughter Abigail and granddaughter Esme.
Thank you so very much Eli Noyes for allowing us to enjoy your great talent over so many decades!
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