Inside The Works: Pioneering Computer Animation in a Long Island Mansion

In 1974, an eccentric millionaire by the name of Alexander Schure founded the New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab. Housed in an one hundred year old pink mansion in Long Island, the lab made large advances in digital paint, animation, and attempted to create the first computer animated film twice in its lifetime. Kickstarting Pixar, creating the alpha channel, and creating 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