![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Luxo Jr’ got a standing ovation the first time it was shown at the SIGGRAPH conference and was the first CGI film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Thus he decided to turn the Luxo into an animated lifelike character, adding in Luxo Jr and turning it into a short story that told the tale of a parent lamp and a child lamp pushing a ball back and forth. ‘Luxo Jr’ – the Pixar 1986 short filmĪn early animated lamp short film was the result of an internal brief to show off Pixar’s then focus – the hardware and software – at the 1986 computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH.Ī Luxo L-1 lamp was sitting on Lasseter’s desk at the time and being used as a model for a graphic rendering. The animation division grew largely out of Jobs and Lasseter’s shared passion for graphic design and humanising technology. Steve Jobs love of combining creativity and technology meant that when Pixar, then very much a sideline, came up for sale (a necessity partly due to Lucas’s divorce), Jobs put up a large investment and took control together with two of its head honchos. Coincidentally, I was reading the brilliantly written Steve Jobs biography recently and it shed a lot of light (no pun intended) on the subject of said lamp – the ‘Pixar Luxo lamp’.īack in the mid 80s George Lucas’s film studio Lucasfilms had a computer division named Pixar with a team of digital animators making short films – led by a cartoon-crazy executive called John Lasseter (who had started out at Disney). It stands out a mile from all the dull, corporate-looking big-name logo sequences that herald the start of a movie. The scampish animated task lamp in the Pixar ident has always tickled me. ![]() By Film and Furniture founder, Paula Benson. ![]() Updated 6 July 2017 in celebration of the Pixar Luxo lamp’s 80th anniversary. The legend of Lasseter and the Pixar Luxo lamp ![]()
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