Eli Noyes & Kit Laybourne, directors & producers.
It’s been many years, but I used to do a lot of stop motion animation with Broadcast Arts (precursor Curious Pictures) and Olive Jar. And with Noyes & Laybourne we did a lot of different kinds of animation, including hundreds spots in this campaign for Nick-at-Nite in the mid-80s.
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Eli Noyes is one of the unsung greats that came out of the 60s New York underground film scene. Kit Laybourne literally wrote the first book many animation professional read (including Mike Judge, who used it to create Beavis & Butthead). They had a production company together and we made a lot of stuff for MTV, Nickelodeon, and Nick-at-Nite. This series is the first of three, featuring a male lead, which took as it’s starting point the repetitive first half of the famous “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” and melded it with the first chord of A Hard Day’s Night.
–Fred
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On September 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Ha ha! Working at Broadcast Arts was my first animation job! I worked there while they were doing Pee Wee’s Playhouse, the main titles from Madonna’s Who’s That Girl and The Bud Bowl if you remember that stuff from so long ago. Gotta be like 17 or 18 years ago! I also animated and inbetweened a few commercials for them. Boy Fred, you are bringing back memories these last few days! Thanks!
On October 27th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I was impressed to see these again. I can remember back in ‘86 when these came on and they felt so weird to see at the opening of each show the network had. I remember seeing one of the other versions as well that were seen a year or so later. The 80’s was a big time for this sort of thing.