The root of Pixar stretch back to 1975 with the founding of a vocational school in old Westbury, New York Institute of Technology. It was there that Edwin E. Catmull, a straitlaced Mormon from sail Lake city who loved animation but couldn’t draw, teamed up with the people who would later from the core of Pixar “ it was artists and technologists from the very start,” recalled Alvy Ray Smith Who worked with Catmull during those years. “It was like a fairy tale.”