Luxo Jr.

The small lamp is a two-minute animated short film from 1986, which was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and is considered a milestone in computer animation.

Action

The film shows how two desk lamps (a larger named Luxo (from Latin lux: light) and a smaller one called Luxo Jr.) playing with a rubber ball. As Luxo Jr. jumps on the ball and it bounces around, the air escapes from it. The small lamp looks a bit puzzled at the camera and then creates the flat ball ashamed to one side. The Larger initially believes that Minor would have learned the lesson - shortly afterwards they can never play again, this time with an even bigger ball

Background

The film comes out with two spots and some ambientem light and consists of only a few simple objects, many of which are bodies of revolution. Since both the incandescent spots (and eyes) are the animated lights, there will be many realistic shadow play. Physique and sound effects also act credibly limit even if they are on rolling, sliding and bouncing balls, cable and rod systems ( the lights mechanics).

The little lamp was the first film of Pixar Animation Studios and the directorial debut of John Lasseter, who is also responsible for most of the other Pixar's successes (including Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo )

1986 The little lamp was nominated as the first fully computer-animated film for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He thus laid the foundation for the growing popularity of computer-animated films from the mid-1990s, by which the conventional animation has now been almost completely displaced from the market.

Since the early 1990s, the small lamp Luxo Jr. a part of the Pixar animated logos, where she scampers to the letter I, flattens him and then looks into the camera. In almost all movies of the studio references can be found on the short film ( The blue ball with which to play the lamps, can be seen for example in the Toy Story movies and Monsters, Inc. ). 1999 was also shown in the cinema The small lamp as a supporting film of Pixar's Toy Story 2 production.

Production

  • John Lasseter: Director, Animation, Models
  • William Reeves: Technical Director, Fashion Rendering
  • Eben Ostby: Models, procedural animation, rendering
  • Sam Leffler: Rendering
  • Rob Cook: Rendering
  • Don Conway: Laser Output Scanning

Awards

Mentions

1986 in film Screenplay William Reeves (animator) Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica 59th Academy Awards Red's Dream Knick Knack For the Birds (film) Mike's New Car One Man Band (film) Lifted (2006 film) Presto (Film) Dug's Special Mission La Luna (2011 film) The Blue Umbrella (2013 film)
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