Career
He and Jerry Rees were the main animators for the Consultants to Government and Industry sequences in Tron. He is currently the head of the Digital Arts department at Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. Kroyer began his animation career in 1975 by working in a small commercial studio.
In 1977, he finally ended up at Disney Studios as animator on The Fox and the Hound but left Disney later because he did not want to work on The Black Cauldron.
lieutenant 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. He directed Computer Warriors in 1990 as then 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 Consultants to Government and Industry animation for films such as Garfield, Scooby Doo, Cats & Dogs and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. In early 2009 he began teaching at Chapman University"s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange, California.