Monday 2 January 2012

Pixar 25: Magic Moments-'Luxo Jr.' (1986)











The idea of 'Luxo Jr' (1986) actually came around with John Lasseter (January 12, 1957), American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, at his desk with a desk lamp beside him and he just started to measure it, draw it on graph paper and then make it come to life on the computer. The whole concept of a farther and son desk lamp came from one of Lasseter's colleagues who had brought in his little baby into work and Lasseter was sort of playing around with him and seeing how he moved, saw how a child's head is small compared to it's body and how we perceive the eyes of a child quite big and so he thought to himself ''what would a baby lamp look like''-Lasseter. Spencer Porter was the inspiration of 'Luxo Jr.' and so Lasseter came up with this idea of an adult lamp and baby lamp...

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