Bill Kroyer

William Kroyer
Occupation	Visual Effects Animator Animator Film director Writer
Years active	1975-present
Known for	animation/visual effects
Spouse	Susan Kroyer (unknown)

William "Bill" Kroyer is an award-winning director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles and theatrical films. He and Jerry Rees were the main animators for the CGI sequences in Tron. He currently the head of the Digital Arts department at Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University .

Career

Kroyer began his animation career in 1975 by working in a small commercial studio. In 1977 he finally ended up at Disney Studios but left Disney because he did not want to work on The Black Cauldron. It was then he met future Tron director Steven Lisberger, who was working on Animalympics. After Animalympics was completed, Lisberger developed Tron and sold it to Disney.

After Tron was finished, Kroyer decided to stay with computer animation instead of traditional animation and worked at Robert Abel and Associates and Digital Productions. In 1986, he and his wife, Sue, started Kroyer Films to combine computer animation with hand-drawn animation. They made a short film titled, Technological Threat and it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988.

He directed Computer Warriors in 1990 as well as directed Ferngully: The Last Rainforest in 1993. He was originally set to direct Quest for Camelot but he was replaced with Frederik Du Chau.

Soon after he joined Rhythm and Hues Studios as Senior Animation Director and supervised the CGI animation for films such as Garfield, Scooby Doo, Cats & Dogs and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

Filmography

• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (director)
• Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins (writer, director)
• Technological Threat (writer, director, producer)

External links

• Bill Kroyer at the Internet Movie Database
• Creating the Memories by William Kroyer