Kroyer Films

Kroyer Films, Inc. was a pioneering animation studio formed in 1986 by animator Bill Kroyer and his wife Susan Kroyer and is one of the earliest studios to combine computer and hand-drawn animation.^[1]

Productions[]

Kroyer Films produced the Oscar-nominated short film Technological Threat and the 20th Century Fox feature film FernGully: The Last Rainforest.^[2] It also produced the animation for the 1994 video game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure.^[3][4]

Legacy[]

The Academy Film Archive preserved Technological Threat in 2013.^[5]

Filmography[]

Films

• Technological Threat (1988) (Oscar nomination)^[6][7]
• Troop Beverly Hills (1989) (title animation with Spümcø)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) (title animation)
• The Making of Me (1989) (animation on the sperm with Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• Christmas Vacation (1989) (title animation)
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (vehicle animation)
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) (computer animation)
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) (additional animation)
• Son of the Pink Panther (1993) (title animation)
• Asterix Conquers America (1994) (additional animation)

TV Series

• Bobby's World (1990) (title animation)
• Widget the World Watcher (1990) (character designs)
• Computer Warriors (1990) (TV pilot)

Video Game

• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (1994) (original animation)

External links[]

• Kroyer Films at IMDb
• Selected Art of the Title articles about Bill Kroyer's title sequences

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