Luxo Jr. (1986) on Netflix
Luxo Sr., a large desk lamp, pushes away a small yellow ball that rolls to him. It returns. His son, Luxo Jr., hops over and plays with it.
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Behind the Scenes
Plot summary
In a dark room, a large desk lamp named Luxo Sr. notices a small yellow ball rolling toward him. The ball has a blue stripe and a red star. Luxo Sr. studies it and nudges it back the way it came, but the ball returns to him. He pushes it away again, and this time it slips past him. His son, Luxo Jr., arrives hopping with excitement and takes charge of the ball, playing with it.
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Luxo Jr. (1986)
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- Luxo Jr.'s design came from John Lasseter noticing that a baby's head is huge compared with the rest of its body. He resized every part of his Luxo lamp model except the bulb, reasoning that bulbs come from a store and don't grow, and a second character emerged.
- Belgian animator Raoul Servais, after seeing Lasseter's early tests at a Brussels animation festival, told him that however short it was a film needed a beginning, a middle and an end: you can tell a story in ten seconds. Lasseter protested it would be too short, then was convinced.
- Catmull and Lasseter worked around the clock on the short; Lasseter took a sleeping bag into work and slept under his desk so he could start early the next morning. The film took four and a half months to complete.
- Luxo Jr. was the first work of animation to use procedural animation, a technique whose software was written by Eben Ostby.
- Luxo Jr. was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987, becoming the first CGI-animated short film ever nominated for an Academy Award.
- The character Luxo Jr., the smaller of the two desk lamps in the film, became the mascot of Pixar, the studio that released the short.
- The soundtrack is an uncredited edit of three compositions from Brian Bennett's Bruton Music album BRD17: Counterpoint In Rhythm, "Finesse", "Quicksilver" and "Chateau Latour".
