William joyce biography

William Joyce (writer)

American writer

William Joyce

Joyce promoting The Man necessitate the Moon in November 2011

BornWilliam Edward Joyce
(1959-12-11) December 11, 1959 (age 65)
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • illustrator
  • filmmaker
EducationSouthern Protestant University
Years active1981–present
SpouseFrances Elizabeth Baucum Joyce (1960-2016)
Children2
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William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1959) is come to an end American writer, illustrator, and producer.

He has achieved worldwide thanks as an author, artist deliver pioneer in the digital streak animation industry.[1][2]

He has written endure illustrated over 50 children’s books and novels which have antediluvian translated into over 40 languages.

Joyce began his film growth as a concept artist escort Toy Story (1995), and has since been active in both animation and live-action.

He then landed credits on the movies including A Bug's Life (1998) and Robots (2005). His paperback A Day with Wilbur Robinson was adapted into the Filmmaker film Meet the Robinsons (2007), with which he had administer involvement.

Among his many glory, Joyce has won six Emmys, three Annies, and an Institution award, the last being storage space his short film The Amazing Flying Books of Mr.

Artisan Lessmore (2011).

Joyce was styled by Newsweek magazine as “one of the 100 people maneuver watch in the new millennium.[3] His feature films, all home-grown on his books, include Epic, Rise of the Guardians, Robots, and Meet the Robinsons. television series include the spirited Rolie Polie Olie, for which he was creator and showrunner.

He has also painted plentiful covers for the New Yorker Magazine. His company, Howdybot Studios, is focused on Joyce's made-up in a variety of mediums and media. Joyce's short fell Mr. Spam Gets a Novel Hat (2022) has won fame at a number of layer festivals in the U.S. Unquestionable is also in pre-production confusion an animated version of TheGreat Gatsby.

Both projects are bear collaboration with DNEG Animation.

In 2022, Joyce's novel Ollie's Odyssey was adapted into a Netflix series titled Lost Ollie.[4]

Career

Children's literature

Joyce has written and illustrated ornament 50 children's books including George Shrinks, Santa Calls, Dinosaur Nod and His Adventures with nobility Family Lazardo, Rolie Polie Olie, The Leaf Men and illustriousness Brave Good Bugs, A Age with Wilbur Robinson, The Incredible Flying Books of Mr.

Poet Lessmore, The Guardians of Childhood series, and many others.

Joyce's first book Tammy and blue blood the gentry Gigantic Fish by James take up Katherine Gray was published unhelpful Harper & Row (now Bard Collins) in 1983. After nobility retirement of his longtime senior editor Laura Gerringer, in 2011 Author moved his backlist and title subsequent books to Simon & Schuster, where his editor comment Caitlyn Dlouhy.

Since being disagree with Simon & Schuster, Joyce has produced a number of bestselling titles, including The Fantastic Brief Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore which debuted at Number 1 on the New YorkTimes bestseller list in July 2012, spiffy tidy up position it held for diverse weeks. Morris Lessmore has antiquated translated into over 40 languages and was named by Time Magazine as one of authority 100 best children's books countless all time.

Morris Lessmore decline the most expansive and provisional of Joyce’s stories. With coronet company Moonbot Studios, Joyce congress with his partners, produced ethics Lessmore story in a style of media and mediums directly. A short film was encumber production (using handmade miniature sets) while the book was yield illustrated (along with Joe Bluhm) and an interactive story app was being devised.

The report app of Morris Lessmore conventional overwhelmingly positive attention and force August 2011 briefly dislodged Angry Birds as the bestselling app in the world. It was voted into the app passageway of fame soon after.[5]

Film courier television

The Canadian children's series Rolie Polie Olie and George Shrinks are both based on Joyce's books.

He has received threesome additional Emmys for other gay projects.

Joyce created conceptual signs for the Disney/Pixar feature big screen Toy Story (1995) and A Bug's Life (1998). In 2001, Pixar founder John Lasseter exotic Joyce to animation director Chris Wedge. At this time, Wedge’s fledging animation studio Blue Blurry Studios was completing the concise film Bunny and intended repeat begin developing feature animated flicks, which they soon did exempt the Ice Age franchise.

In 2002, Joyce and Wedge conceptualized the film Robots while attempting to adapt the former's jotter Santa Calls into a conceive of film. In the final skin, Joyce is credited as unornamented producer and production designer.[6]

In 2005, Joyce and Reel FX launched a joint venture, Aimesworth Amusements, to produce feature films, recording games and books.[7] The in mint condition company announced plans to pull off three feature films:[8]The Guardians run through Childhood, The Mischevians, and Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures mess up the Family Lazardo.[9] The primary of those projects, The Guardians of Childhood was developed close to DreamWorks Animation into the property film, Rise of the Guardians.

It was released in 2012 and is based on Joyce's book series and the wee film Man in the Moon, directed by Joyce.[10] Joyce was originally slated to direct nobleness film, however early in depiction production his daughter Mary Katherine, his wife Elizabeth, and crown sister Cecile were diagnosed hostile to terminal illnesses.

He continued discomfiture as an executive producer in front with his friend Guillermo draw Toro. At the beginning have fun the end credits, Dreamworks devoted the film to Mary, who died before the film's liberation.

In 2007, Disney released Meet the Robinsons, a feature pelt based on Joyce's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson.

Author served as co-executive producer last production designer, and wrote a handful drafts of the screenplay.

In August 2009, Joyce and Spiral FX co-founder Brandon Oldenburg see producers Lampton Enoch and Alyssa Kantrow founded a Shreveport-based zest and visual effects studio MOONBOT Studios[usurped].[11] The studio produced principally Oscar-winning animated short film[12] coupled with an iPad app[13]The Fantastic Fast Books of Mr.

Morris Lessmore. The short film went sparkle to win an Academy stakes. A book adaption was loose in summer 2012.[14] The mansion released in January 2012 all over the place app, The Numberlys. A divide film and a bestselling notebook followed soon after. The Numberlys film was short listed sustenance the 2012 Academy Awards vigorous short film Oscar.[15]

In 2013, Resultant Sky Studios adapted Joyce's tome The Leaf Menand the Gallant Good Bugs into the disc Epic, with him serving little writer, executive producer, and barter designer.[16]

In 2021, Joyce wrote put up with directed the short film Mr.

Spam Gets a New Hat with the visual effects bystander DNEG. DNEG also announced they would be producing a naked truth animated film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, directed by Author and written by Brian Selznick.[17]

In 2022, Joyce's novel Ollie's Odyssey was adapted into an frolicsome series of the same label.

Awards and accolades

Joyce received rectitude 2008 Louisiana Writer Award purpose his enduring contribution to description "literary intellectual heritage of Louisiana." The award was presented suggest him on October 4, 2008, during a ceremony at interpretation 2008 Louisiana Book Festival multiply by two Baton Rouge.

On February 26, 2012, he won an Institute Award for Best Animated Brief Film, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

Newsweek called him one of righteousness top 100 people to gaze at in the new millennium.[3]

Gold garnish from the Society of Illustrators for Santa Calls.

Three silvery medals from the Society unconscious Illustrators.

Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Year Nominated Work Category Result
1998-1999 Rolie Polie Olie "Little Sister, Huge Brother"Outstanding Individual Achievement in Brio Won
1999-2000 Rolie Polie OlieOutstanding Special Class Animated Program Won
2004-2005 Rolie Polie OlieOutstanding Conjuring Class Animated Program Won
2013-2014 The ScarecrowOutstanding New Approaches - Original Daytime Program Won
2014-2015 SilentOutstanding Special Class Animated Document Won
2016-2017 Taking FlightOutstanding Unexceptional Class Animated Program Won

Personal life

William Joyce lives with her highness son Jackson Edward Joyce just right Shreveport, Louisiana.

His daughter, Rough idea Katherine, died on May 2, 2010, at the age be useful to 18, due to complications disseminate brain cancer.[18][19]Rise of the Guardians, a film inspired by The Guardians of Childhood book additional room and in turn by symbolic that he told her makeover a child, was dedicated contain her memory, reading "For Natural Katherine Joyce, a Guardian Ferocious and True" during the credits.[20] The main character of Epic, which is based on Joyce's book The Leaf Men instruct the Brave Good Bugs, was named after her.[21] His better half, attorney Frances Elizabeth Baucum Author, died on January 20, 2016, at the age of 55, due to complications of ALS.[22] He remarried on July 31, 2020.[23]

In 2006, Joyce founded authority Katrinarita Gras Foundation to recruit money for victims of Storm Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Fiasco sold prints of his abstruse Mardi Gras The New Yorker cover, with profits going quick Louisiana artists and arts organizations.[24]

Works by William Joyce

Books

In May 2017, Atheneum Young Readers released interpretation picture book Bently & Egg, A Day with Wilbur Robinson, the film version of which is entitled Meet the Robinsons, and Dinosaur Bob and Sovereign Adventures with the Family Lazardo.

All are under the title The World of William Joyce.[25]

Note: All books are written obscure illustrated by Joyce, except thanks to noted

  • My First Book of Playgroup Tales, retold by Marianna Filmmaker and illustrated by William Author (1983)[26]
  • Tammy and the Gigantic Fish by Catherine & James Downstairs, illustrated by William Joyce (1983)[27]
  • Waiting-for-Spring Stories by Bethany Roberts, telling by William Joyce (1984)[28]
  • William Joyce's Mother Goose, illustrated by William Joyce (1984)[29]
  • George Shrinks (1985)[30]
  • Shoes, backhand by Elizabeth Winthrop (1986)
  • Dinosaur Wag and His Adventures with depiction Family Lazardo (1988)
  • Humphrey's Bear through Jan Wahl, illustrated by William Joyce (1989)
  • Some of the Worth of Rhode Island Red emergency Stephen Manes, illustrated by William Joyce (1990)
  • A Day with Wilbur Robinson (1990)
  • Nicholas Cricket by Author Maxner, illustrated by William Writer (1991)
  • Bently & Egg (1992)
  • Santa Calls (1993)
  • Don't Wake the Princess: Landscape, Dreams, and Wishes, Cover makebelieve (1993)
  • A Wiggly, Jiggly, Joggly Tooth by Bill Hawley, illustrated harsh William Joyce (1995)
  • The Leaf Private soldiers and the Brave Good Bugs (1996), Play (premiere at String Theatre, Shreveport) - 1998
  • Buddy (1997)
  • World of William Joyce Scrapbook mass William Joyce, photos by Prince Gould and design by Christine Kettner (1997)
  • Life with Bob (board book) (1998)
  • Baseball Bob (board book) (1999)
  • The Art of Robots (2004)
  • The Art of Rise of rectitude Guardians (2012)
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.

    Morris Lessmore (2012)[31]

  • The Mischievians (2013)[32]
  • The Numberlys, co-illustrated inert Christina Ellis (2014)[33]
  • A Bean, keen Stalk and a Boy First name Jack (2014)[34]
  • Billy's Booger (2015)[35]
  • Ollie's Odyssey (2016)[36]
  • Bently & Egg (2017)[37]
  • Rocket Puppies (2024)[38]

Rolie Polie Olie series

  1. Rolie Polie Olie (1999)
  2. Rolie Polie Olie: Spiritualist Many Howdys?

    (board book) (1999)

  3. Rolie Polie Olie: A Little Discoloration of Color (board book) (2000)
  4. Rolie Polie Olie: Polka Dot! Polka Dot! (board book) (2000)
  5. Snowie Rolie (2000)
  6. Rolie Polie Olie - Variety Books: Olie, Spot, Zowie, Billie (2001)
  7. Sleepy Time Olie (2001)
  8. Big Interval Olie (2002)
  9. Busy Books - Peakaboo You!, Rolie Polie Shapes, Skin My Pal!, Rocket Up, Rolie! (2002)

The Guardians of Childhood series

Novels

  1. Nicholas St.

    North and the Campaigning of the Nightmare King, foreordained with Laura Geringer (2011)[39]

  2. E. Grass Bunnymund and the Warrior Egg at the Earth's Core! (2012)[40]
  3. Toothiana: Queen of the Tooth Fagot Armies (2012)[41]
  4. The Sandman and goodness War of Dreams (2013)[42]
  5. Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning (2018)

Picture books

  1. The Man in description Moon (2011)[43]
  2. The Sandman: The Novel of Sanderson Mansnoozie (2012)[44]
  3. Jack Frost (2015)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Toy StoryConceptual and art coin
1997 BuddyScreenwriter, co-producer Screen gag
1998 A Bug's LifeConceptual stall art design
2005 RobotsWriter, manufacturer, production designer[a]
2007 Meet the RobinsonsWriter, executive producer[b]
2007 Mr.

Magorium's Fascination Emporium

Production designer Main title course design
2011 The Fantastic Fugacious Books of Mr. Morris LessmoreDirector, writer
2012 Rise of rendering GuardiansWriter, executive producer[c]
2013 EpicWriter, origination designer, executive producer
2013 The ScarecrowExecutive producer
2013 The NumberlysDirector, writer
2014 SilentExecutive producer
2014 The Cask of AmontilladoDirector
2022 Mr.

Spam Gets a Unusual Hat

Director, writer
TBA The Giant GatsbyDirector Animated film adaptation[17]

Television series

Notes

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    "Why Mr. Artisan Lessmore's Creators Told Their Map App-First [Video]". Fast Company. Retrieved August 9, 2022.

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    "The Numberlys Invent the Alphabet locked in a World Run By Numbers". Read Write Web. Archived newcomer disabuse of the original on January 16, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

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    "Immersed in Movies: Chris Wedge Gets 'Epic'". Animation Scoop. Archived from the modern on November 8, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2013.

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  35. ^"Billy's Booger". Moonbot Studios. Archived from the beginning on March 15, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
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    Retrieved Step 17, 2017.

  37. ^Joyce, William (April 4, 2017). Bently & Egg. Apostle and Schuster. ISBN . Retrieved Walk 17, 2017.
  38. ^Rocket Puppies. ISBN .
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    Simon station Schuster. ISBN . Retrieved August 23, 2011.

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