Kroyer Films
{{Short description|American animation studio}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Kroyer Films, Inc.
| logo =
| foundation = 1986
| founder = Bill Kroyer and Susan Kroyer
| defunct = January 7, 2022
| location = Hollywood, California, United States
| industry = Animation
Computer animation
| revenue =
| products = Animated feature films
| fate = Dissolved
}}
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.[https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/william-kroyer William Kroyer|Faculty Profile|Chapman University] Kroyer Films became dormant after 1994 and was ultimately dissolved on January 7, 2022.
Productions
Kroyer Films produced the Oscar-nominated short film Technological Threat and the 20th Century Fox feature film FernGully: The Last Rainforest.{{cite web |url=https://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/bill-kroyer |title=Bill Kroyer |website=Art of the Title |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405023812/https://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/bill-kroyer |archive-date=April 5, 2024 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/16/robin-williamss-best-role |title=Robin Williams’s Best Role |first=Chantel |last=Tattoli |date=July 16, 2018 |website=The Paris Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405025814/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/16/robin-williamss-best-role |archive-date=April 5, 2024 |url-status=live}} It also produced the animation for the 1994 video game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure.{{cite interview |last=Kroyer |first=Bill |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-retro-what-links-tron-and-pitfall-the-mayan-adventure |title=What links, classic Disney animation and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure? |website=Eurogamer |interviewer=John Linneman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405023316/https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2019-retro-what-links-tron-and-pitfall-the-mayan-adventure |archive-date=April 5, 2024 |url-status=live}}
Legacy
The Academy Film Archive preserved Technological Threat in 2013.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=technological+threat&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119112255/https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=technological+threat&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All |archive-date=January 19, 2024 |url-status=live}}
Filmography
Films
- Technological Threat (1988) (Oscar nomination)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H74Vk5-X74w Short Film Winners: 1989 Oscars]{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |title=The 61st Academy Awards – 1989 |website=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311021415/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |url-status=live}}
- 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)
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/company/co0023229/ Kroyer Films at IMDb]
- [https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/national-lampoons-christmas-vacation/ Selected] [https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/troop-beverly-hills/ Art of the Title articles] [https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/honey-i-shrunk-the-kids/ about Bill Kroyer's title sequences]
{{Animation industry in the United States}}
{{Silicon Graphics}}
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Category:American animation studios
Category:Mass media companies established in 1986
Category:American companies established in 1986
Category:Film and television title designers