John Lasseter is animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and the chief creative of Pixar studio.
He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. His first job was working at The Walt Disney Company, where animator. Then, he was expelled from the Walt Disney and began working Lucasfilm, where he worked on the then ground breaking use of CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986.