Alvy Ray SmithAlvy Ray Smith worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Steve Jobs purchased the computer system that made the Mac famous. For a long time, he was one of the driving forces behind 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 along with Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter in 1986.