http://www.totalfilm.com/features/interview-john-lasseter/page:5
John Lasseter, Gorge Lucas and Ed Catmull, described in this interview as a band of revolutionaries talking about Lucasfilm and how he came into the world of CGI.
So you were like a little band of revolutionaries.
Well, we were a very small group, led by Ed with a visionary – George Lucas – funding it. It was remarkable. I’m the very first traditionally trained animator in the world who worked with computer animation. And I just blossomed!
After my experience at the Disney Studio of just being squelched, Ed had gathered together the world’s greatest young minds in computer animation. I asked him, ‘How did you get all these amazing people?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s easy, I just try to hire people who are smarter than myself.’
