In this role, he developed the world's first laser scanning and recording devices for 35mm motion picture film [5] and established reliable, commercially successful methods for this process, called PixarVision.

[8][9] In 1996 the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers adopted his recommended practices for governing output of digital images to film.

The film revealed the world's fastest Zoetrope in the form of a high resolution still images taken from the Xbox game Forza Motorsport 5.

Stills from the game were printed onto panels and staged at key intervals around a Barber Motorsports Park race track to recreate the illusion of movement known as the persistence of vision.

In addition, DiFrancesco is a collector and restorer of vintage race cars and motorcycles including a 1953 Siata 208s, shown at the Concorso Italiano in 2007,[16] a 1938 Brough Superior raced in CSRG vintage in the 1980s, an SCCA NW regional winning DP 1956 AC Bristol,[17] and a brace of Yamaha factory road racers.