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Eliot Fette Noyes Jr. was born on Oct. 18, 1942, in Alexandria, Va., and grew up in New Canaan, Conn. His father<\/a> was a prominent industrial designer and architect whose designs included the IBM Selectric typewriter<\/a> and round gas pumps<\/a> for Mobil. His mother, Mary (Weed) Noyes<\/a>, known as Molly, was an architect and interior designer.<\/p>\n Mr. Noyes received a bachelor\u2019s degree in English literature from Harvard in 1964. He then enrolled in the college\u2019s graduate program in architecture, but left after a year. \u201cI think he realized that following in the footsteps of his father was an overwhelming idea,\u201d his wife said in an interview.<\/p>\n He moved to California briefly before relocating to New York City to begin his career in the film industry. While working on his animated movies, he also made educational programs for children and directed or several documentaries with Claudia Weill, including \u201cThis Is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham\u201d (1970), about a poor Black family in Washington.<\/p>\n \u201cAs Noyes and Miss Weill understand it, her warm, happy, sloppy, incredibly overpopulated apartment is a kind of crowded paradise for movie making,\u201d Roger Greenspun wrote in the Times<\/a>. \u201cA lot happens in front of their camera, and they know how to let it happen, and so for them a world comes alive.\u201d<\/p>\n In 1991, Mr. Noyes and his family moved to San Francisco, where he worked on animation projects at Pixar and Disney Channel and was later the creative director at the Oxygen Network. In 2003, he founded a production company, Alligator Planet, with Ralph Guggenheim, one of the producers of \u201cToy Story\u201d (1995).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n