How world's top brands got started

Image Computer (1986)

Founders - Edwin Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, Steve Job- First location - Richmond, CA

Pixar was founded as The Graphics Group, which is one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm that was launched in 1979 with the hiring of Dr. Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), where he was in charge of the Computer Graphics Lab (CGL). At NYIT, the researchers pioneered many of the CG foundation techniques—in particular the invention of the "alpha channel.".