1979
• Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar, is hired by George Lucas to head the Lucasfilm Computer Division. The division begins work to deliver a digital video editing system, a digital audio system, and a digital film printer.
• The group that would eventually become Pixar collaborates at Lucasfilm to write REYES (Renders Everything You Ever Saw), an algorithm for rendering a scene. REYES eventually evolves into RenderMan, the dominant standard for digital work in Hollywood.
1984
• Disney-trained animator John Lasseter joins the Lucasfilm Computer Division. His first computer-animated work for Pixar, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premieres at SIGGRAPH.
• The Pixar Image Computer, designed to handle all techniques necessary to recreate analog photographic effects in digital form, is introduced. It is of…
