At the time, in the 1990s, desktop publishing was just starting to trend. Gini recalled: "I remember encouraging the owner and say, 'Hey we should start getting computers.' And so after 5 years, I decided I needed to go back to school and I said, I should study about computer art. So there was a computer art course in the School of Visual Arts. And so I ended up entering that, it was an MFA, major in computer art and they had computer animation, which I had never seen. So I joined that, I made a student reel, and then sent it to Pixar when Toy Story came out."