[2] Schure and then-Nova University President Abraham Fischler, Ed.D., formed a federation between Nova and the New York Institute of Technology.

What he hadn't realized was how time consuming and painstaking it would be to do each frame by hand, which inspired him to use modern computer technology to help with the animation process.

(In 1986, that computer-graphics group would be funded by recently fired Steve Jobs as the independent company Pixar[5] which manufactured and sold image-processing computers using the concepts first developed at NYIT, and also produced projects using them.)

Although Clark would move on to found Silicon Graphics and Netscape, the rest of the NYIT team continued to play key roles as Pixar's animation developed from its first short films in the mid-1980s onward.

It can be said that Dr. Schure's vision and support from 1975 to 1980, and the low-pressure academic research lab environment at NYIT, was an essential contributor to the development of many of the technical innovations needed to produce realistic computer generated films.