Today marks the 31st birthday of the first Pixar animated short, Luxo Jr. The silent two-minute film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and its August 17, 1986 release ...

Luxo Jr. (1986) is an animated film that is only two minutes long and revolves around a larger lamp, Luxo Sr., and his son, Luxo Jr., who keeps playing with a ball until it deflates. Other than being ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re of a certain vintage – like me – chances are your jaw hit the floor the first time you witnessed Pixar’s Luxo Jr. That cheeky little lamp! All boundless energy, until – spoiler – ...

Luxo Jr., the squeaky desk-lamp character created by animation guru John Lasseter 23 years ago, is in the spotlight again -- under the glare of a transatlantic lawsuit. The hopping swivel lamp has ...

It is no secret; the Disney Corporation is a marketing and merchandising powerhouse. It has achieved that reputation by capitalizing on almost every marketing and merchandising opportunity that comes ...

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 ...

Poetic justice – or inevitable? The Los Angeles Times reports that the Norwegian lamp maker is suing over non contractual uses of its lamp design in merchandising and at Disney World. UPDATE: Fellow ...