Three men are responsible for making Pixar who it is today. Ed Catmull, the president, Steve Jobs, the deceased CEO, and John Lasseter the Chief Creative Officer, original member of the Pixar team, and the single person most responsible for creating the Pixar stories. Lasseter had one dream in high school: he wanted to be a Disney Animator. He was hired by Disney after graduating from California School of the Arts but drew disapproval from his boss when he grew enthusiastic about combining 3D computer animation, an unknown artform at the time, with traditional hand drawn animation. After pressing the issue he was unexpectedly and uncermounsly fired. Lasseter firmly believed in the art of storytelling, as his coworker said “The story is first and foremost. That has always been the mantra John Lasseter preached”. He believed that every artistic medium was only a tool for telling a compelling story. Lasseter was trained as classical cartoonist, and he was the first person to apply classical animation characterization techniques to computer animated films (Pixar touch 896). He saw computer animated film as a new and exciting extension of traditional hand draw animation. After being hired in the early 1980s to work for Pixar, then an unknown branch of Lucas Film(The Pixar Touch), he created short and eventually feature length films that starred inhuman objects or animals as characters with compelling emotions and storylines. In his own words he wanted to create characters that were “More human than humans are”. (The Story of Pixar). His now iconic short film Luxo, where a parent and child lamp play ball, is signature of his style, creating nonhuman characters dealing with human emotions