California Institute of the Arts On man who played a relatively large role in the history of animation is John Lasseter. Lasseter has directed many computer animated films, his most famous being Toy Story. This is partially due to the fact that Toy Story was the first feature length film that was fully computer animated. More importantly Lasseter was one of the driving forces behind the creation of PIXAR and the computer animated movie industry as a whole. John Lasseter was born on January 12, 1957. After he had graduated high school he went to the California Institute of the Arts to take the newly offered animation courses that were being taught by retired Disney animators. Soon after he graduated from CILA in 1979 he received a job at Disney's animation studio. During his career at Disney he worked on The Fox and the Hound and Mickey's Christmas Carol. However, he and his superiors did not agree on the computerized direction that Lasseter thought animation should take. T...