![]() In 2009, he co-founded Moonbot Studios a multimedia storytelling company exploring books, apps, films and video games. The studio’s projects have won numerous awards and accolades, including an Annie Award, multiple Webby Awards and inclusion in the iTunes App Store Hall of Fame. Since beginning his career as children’s book author/illustrator, Joyce has written or illustrated nearly 50 books including kid favorites George Shrinks, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, A Day With Wilbur Robinson, The Leafmen and the Brave Good Bugs, Rolie Polie Olie and his 13-book series, The Guardians of Childhood. He continues to publish bestselling books through Moonbot’s imprint with Simon and Schuster, including The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. ![]() DUST have just released their latest sci-fi short film. ![]() Morris Lessmore, an animated short film about the curative powers of story. Morris Lessmore, The Mischievians and The Numberlys. Number 13 is based on the Dark Horse comic by Robert Love and David Walker. In this animated short, Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. Dark Horse use the phrase A heart of gold and a fist of laser cannons to describe the series. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice 'Rocket' Richard and wore his number 9 Canadiens hockey jersey, the boy was mistakenly sent a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey from Eatons. Unable to convince his mother to send it back, he must face his. interactive iOS Apps, Morris Lessmore and The Numberlys. His latest book, Ollie’s Odyssey, was released in 2017. Moonbot Studios first introduced The Numberlys as a Webby Award-winning app in 2012, followed by a bestselling picture book and festival favorite short film in 2014. Named by Newsweek magazine as “one of the 100 people to watch in the new millennium,” he has worked on projects with nearly every major film studio, including BlueSky, Disney, Dreamworks Animation, Twentieth Century Fox and Pixar. The property is Moonbot’s second multi-platform story, crafted after the success of the studio’s Academy Award winning The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. His feature films include Epic, Rise of the Guardians, Robots and Meet the Robinsons. His television series include George Shrinks and Rolie Polie Olie, for which he won three Emmy Awards. Heres an awesome live-action short film called The Secret Number with a solid story that doesnt rely on special effects. PROJECT OVERVIEW: The Numberlys Pilot was part of Amazon Primes Pick Your. Joyce’s latest films are animated shorts: The Numberlys, co-directed with Brandon Oldenburg, and The Cask of Amontillado, co-directed with Joe Bluhm and based on the Edgar Allan Poe story. It was created over a period of two years by a team of young filmmakers from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Exactly what our heroes didn’t even know they were missing.Īnd when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen…Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!īased on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot’s Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray.It was directed by Colin Levy, and its based on the short story by Igor Teper. Twenty-six letters-and they were beautiful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers… Morris Lessmore comes an alphabet tale extraordinaire! From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
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