Thirty years ago today, Pixar changed the face of animation forever with its landmark short film Luxo Jr.. The groundbreaking short was simple enough: it simply featured two living Luxo LS desk lamps, ...

Pixar Animation Studios has gone too far. Bloomberg.com reports that the Norwegian manufacturer of lamps, Luxo AS, is suing Pixar for infringing upon the brand. The squeaky swivel lamp Luxo Jr. made ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Luxo Jr.,’ the squeaky desk-lamp character created by John Lasseter ...

People can toss around the phrase “game-changer” with perhaps a little to much ease these days but the two-minute short animated film “Luxo Jr'” released in 1986 by Pixar could be argued invented the ...

An animatronic table lamp that has come to symbolize the animation studio it helped form finally stands atop the Pixar Pier marquee arch in Disney California Adventure four months after the ...

Thinkway Toys’s Pixar desk accessory/lamp/toy/thingamabob has a Luxo Jr. that moves and illuminates exactly like in the movie. As you can see in the video, you can ...

It was in 1979 when George Lucas recruited Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology to head Lucasfilm’s computer division, a group charged with developing state-of-the-art technology for ...

Walt Disney famously said, “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.” For the Pixar artists, it was all started by a lamp. Twenty-five years ago (Aug. 17 ...

An animatronic table lamp that has come to symbolize the animation studio it helped form finally stands atop the Pixar Pier marquee arch in Disney California Adventure four months after the ...