Whilst working with Disney, John Lasseter (January 12, 1957), American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios had watched a film called 'Tron' 1982, a film mixed with live action and CGI which really grabbed John Lasseter's eye and inspired his imagination. After watching this John Lasseter was very keen to make a computer animated feature film, I believe was called 'The Brave Little Toaster' (1987) and decided to pitch this idea to his employers. After being asked how much it will cost to make this film and was told ''The only reason to do computer animation is if we can do it faster or cheaper'' (Lasseter's words) John Lasseter was pretty thrown back by this. However, after 5 minutes Ed Hansen (30 January 1937–16 December 2005) had called Lasseter and wanted to meet him. From there John Lasseter was told ''your project is now complete, so your employment with Disney Studios is now terminated'' (Lasseter's reaction above :))After this dreadful news, John Lasseter joined with Ed Catmull (1945), computer scientist and George Lucas ( May 14, 1944), Star Wars supremo. Unfortunately George Lucas couldn't progress forward with this so he then decided to sell his graphics division. With computer animation going through the stages of development, it was all handed over to Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) where he brought Pixar in 1986.
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