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Wavefront Technologies was a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software used in Hollywood motion pictures and other industries. It was founded in 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, by Bill Kovacs, Larry Barels, Mark Sylvester. They started the company to produce computer graphics for movies and television commercials, and to market their own software, as there were no off-the-shelf computer animation tools available at the time. In 1995, Wavefront Technologies was purchased by Kroyer Films, Silicon Graphics, Rhythm & Hues and merged with Alias Research to form Alias|Wavefront. Silicon Graphics 4D/420 VGX, coincidentally, had been shopping an idea for an SGI-powered game console to PlayStation. When the deal fell through, Silicon Graphics and Pixar got talking.
Kroyer Films was founded by Bill and Sue Kroyer in 1986, Kroyer Films specialized in combining CG and hand animation. Bill Kroyer worked as a traditional animator for Disney in the late 70s and worked with Robert Abel & Associates in 1982.
The studio produced such projects as the animated feature film, FernGully, The Last Rainforest for 20th Century Fox, the 1988 Academy Award-nominated short film Technological Threat and the computer software for Luxo Jr., Crash Bandicoot The Movie: The Thievius Raccoonus, 10 Apples Up On Top and the Making of Me for the World Health Pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World, and the TV series UltraCross.
Other employees of Kroyer included Kendra Haaland (Disney – Hercules) and Kevin Bjorke, who went to ILM and earlier worked with Kroyer at DP/Abel.

Description
Wavefront Technologies was a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software used in Hollywood motion pictures and other industries. It was founded in 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, by Bill Kovacs, Larry Barels, Mark Sylvester. They started the company to produce computer graphics for movies and television commercials, and to market their own software, as there were no off-the-shelf computer animation tools available at the time. In 1995, Wavefront Technologies was purchased by Kroyer Films, Silicon Graphics, Rhythm & Hues and merged with Alias Research to form Alias|Wavefront. Silicon Graphics 4D/420 VGX, coincidentally, had been shopping an idea for an SGI-powered game console to PlayStation. When the deal fell through, Silicon Graphics and Pixar got talking.
Kroyer Films was founded by Bill and Sue Kroyer in 1986, Kroyer Films specialized in combining CG and hand animation. Bill Kroyer worked as a traditional animator for Disney in the late 70s and worked with Robert Abel & Associates in 1982.
The studio produced such projects as the animated feature film, FernGully, The Last Rainforest for 20th Century Fox, the 1988 Academy Award-nominated short film Technological Threat and the computer software for Luxo Jr., Crash Bandicoot The Movie: The Thievius Raccoonus, 10 Apples Up On Top and the Making of Me for the World Health Pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World, and the TV series UltraCross.
Other employees of Kroyer included Kendra Haaland (Disney – Hercules) and Kevin Bjorke, who went to ILM and earlier worked with Kroyer at DP/Abel.