William Joyce

Rolie Polie Olie is a children's television cartoon produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce . The show centers around a little boy who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. Rolie Polie Olie...

In this article: Rolie Polie Olie, Daytime Emmy Award, Monster movie, Nelvana, Chili's, and Canada

A Day with Wilbur Robinson is a 1990 children's picture book (slightly expanded for a 2006 reissue) written and illustrated by William Joyce . A film adaptation called Meet the Robinsons was released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2007 in the...

In this article: A Day with Wilbur Robinson, Walt Disney Pictures, and United States

...Fox & Blue Sky Studios (both companies also brought us ICE AGE and ROBOTS). THE LEAF MEN is an adaptation of THIS book by William Joyce; the project's set-up process has been interesting... While at Fox... Wedge at some point got the...

In this article: Pixar, Chris Wedge, Ice Age, Disney, and John Lasseter

...so crass that it leaves us cringing. The official inspiration for the movie is "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" by children's author William Joyce. But if you didn't know that, you'd be more likely to assume that it was spun off from the "Jimmy...

In this article: Tom Selleck, Humane Society of the United States, California, Meet the Robinsons, Miami-Dade, Walt Disney, and Florida

...and animation experts who have been making remarkable visual imprints in the business. Noted author and illustrator William Joyce ("Robots," "Meet the Robinsons") and Reel FX visionary Brandon Oldenburg (clients: Pixar, Disney,...

In this article: Louisiana, Ringling College of Art and Design, Shreveport, DreamWorks, Austin, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and American Film Institute

William Joyce s Guide to Shreveport He s big in the world of animated films and remains loyal to his North Louisiana hometown. The artist is at home in his workspace at Centenary College of Louisiana. Fertitta has trademarked the term...

In this article: Shreveport, Centenary College of Louisiana, Muffuletta, Sandwich, Louis Vuitton, DreamWorks, Meet the Robinsons, and Robots

...Louisiana. Fertitta has trademarked the term Muffy for their famous deli sandwiches. It s my favorite thing when people come, William Joyce says, amid multihued, lively descriptions of his riverside home city. The delightful mom-and-pop...

In this article: Shreveport, Centenary College of Louisiana, Muffuletta, Sandwich, Louis Vuitton, DreamWorks, Meet the Robinsons, and Robots

Actually, the wacky family is the only part of the movie that is really based on the film's ostensible source material, William Joyce's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson. But the manic energy of the family sequences makes it nearly...

In this article: Stephen J. Anderson, Meet the Robinsons, A Day with Wilbur Robinson, Disney, Pixar, Meet the Robinsons, John Lasseter, and Time travel

...topiary comes to life and chases everyone, too. Oh, and frogs sing jazz. Loosely based on the book "A Day With Wilbur Robinson" by William Joyce, "Meet the Robinsons" hinges on Lewis's desire to find his mom and how he invents a "memory...

In this article: A Day with Wilbur Robinson, Stephen Hunter, Will Ferrell, Chris O'Neil, Jim Ellis, Jon Heder, and Patrick Stewart

In its Nov. 4 slot, DWA has "The Guardians," turning to a not-yet-published book series from kidlit-to-toon titan William Joyce, whose work has previously inspired Disney's "Meet the Robinsons" and "Rolie Polie Olie." With animation...

In this article: DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek Forever After, Andrew Adamson, How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks, and Ben Stiller