Kit Laybourne is a TV producer and educator. Laybourne was an executive producer of animation, documentary and interactive shows at Oxygen Network a company co-founded by his wife

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and Oprah Winfrey. His major production credits include '' Braingames'' for HBO, '' Eureeka's Castle'' and '' Gullah Gullah Island'' for

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, '' Liquid Television'' for MTV, and ''Media Probes'' for

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. In 2021, he became chief creative officer for The Whistle, a media company focusing on sports for kids. For a dozen years, Laybourne and partner Eli Noyes ran Noyes & Laybourne, an independent animation & branding studio in

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. Most of its major works included ID's for MTV and

, shorts for the

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, and shows for

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and

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Writings

*''The Animation Book : A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons''. New York: Three Rivers Press. The book was originally published in 1979, but upon further research into digital animation techniques, a new edition was released in 1998. *"Mediapedia", published in 2009 by Globe Pequot Press.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Laybourne, Kit Living people American television producers Year of birth missing (living people)