Inside The Works

Before Pixar, There Was The Computer Graphics Lab Inside the Works is a feature length documentary about the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, a facility that attempted to create the first computer animated movie. Housed in an one hundred year old pink mansion in Long Island, the lab made large advances in digital paint and animation. Kickstarting Pixar, creating the alpha channel, and making art with every new tool they could muster, this is the story of the forbidden pink house in Long Island.  What survives and has been digitized of the lab's work is currently being uploaded to the Internet Archive. A link will be added here when available. CREDITS: Director and Producer: Jacob "Ziggy Cashmere" Pruitt Featuring: Ed Catmull Alvy Ray Smith Carter Burwell Tom Sito Dick Lundin Amber Denker Garland Stern Wm. Maher Hank Grebe Paul Heckbert Robert Stuhmer David Lubell Mike Chou Voice Acting: Jakob Bottoms Charlie Pollard Ko Laluna Editing: Jacob "Ziggy" Pruitt  Music: Chris Tobey Animators: Ubern Maximized Animation Dooble158 Sound Design: Tamar Feiner Additional Interviews: Oliver Levine  Additional Research: Fortis Arbor Max Meyer D. Gleyzer  Additional Compositing: Ike Henderson  Tape Digitization: Isiah F. Richard Carter Matthew Harris SharpSilver77 Tanks  Paper Digitization: Oliver Levine Richard Carter Lawrence Basso Animation Obsessive Special Thanks: Louis Schure CEPHRI Norm Cox Maxx JoshIsDED Ariel Lee Ike Henderson Conner Japikse pinkoctopede64 Suzan D. Prince Daemon