 After being honorably discharged from the Army in 2005, Dyer attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, CA where he earned a BA in Visual Journalism.Dyer's film, "The Other Way Out", won the 2009 Best Animation award at New England Film.com film festival and, that same year, the film won an Alliance for Community Media award for best non-professional animation.A year later, he was awarded a fellowship with Operation In Their Boots, a production of Brave New Foundation, to make a film about Iraq/Afghanistan Veterans and substance abuse.