Alvy Ray SmithAlvy Ray Smith worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), from where Steve Jobs bought the computer system that made the Mac famous. For a long time he was one of the souls of Lucasfilm, where in the early 1980s he formed the technology division responsible for creating digital animations. Above all, Alvy Ray Smith, born in 1943, was the founder of Pixar together with Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter in 1986.