Pixar wasn't founded by Jobs, it was spun out of ILM. Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull both worked at ILM and were responsible for some of the ground-breaking digi

Pixar wasn't founded by Jobs, it was spun out of ILM. Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull both worked at ILM and were responsible for some of the ground-breaking digital effects in movies in the early 80s, including the Genesis Device simulation in The Wrath of Khan. They also built the PIXAR computer for rendering. Catmull brought in John Lasseter to make animated shorts. Lucas had no interest in producing "cartoons," so once he had usable hardware, he spun out the ILM digital graphics group and as Pixar with investment capital from Steve Jobs. Lucas then hired more digital graphics artists who were more interested in supporting special effects using the rendering tools that had already been developed. Steve had an interesting relationship with Pixar. He was somewhat hands on as chairman of the board, but still had a lot of the aggro tendencies that everyone knew from his first stint at Apple. Sometimes he would go "street bully," including a heated argument over the use of a whiteboard with Alvy Ray Smith, an actual founder of Pixar, that resulted in Smith's departure. That said, Steve provided the financing and executive deal-making that resulted in Toy Story and the subsequent string of the best animated feature films ever made.