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In 1974, an eccentric millionaire by the name of Alexander Schure founded the New York Inistitute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab. Housed in a 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 lay their hands on, this is the story of the forbidden pink house in Long Island.
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00:00How did you start out at the lab?
00:02Actually, I started out modeling.
00:05I did some designs for robots
00:10for this project they were working on called The Works.
00:14I read Lance's script.
00:16The whole idea of the robots basically repopulating the Earth with themselves
00:23I thought was kind of a cool conceit
00:25until Ned Green did a calculation.
00:29It determined that in order to render the works, it would take seven years.
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