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'''Trivia:''' | '''Trivia:''' | ||
* The lamp is the titular character from Pixar's very first animated short, ''Luxo Jr.'', made in 1986. "Luxo" was trademarked by Jac Jacobsen Industrier A.S. The sound effects are also taken from said short. | * The lamp is the titular character from Pixar's very first animated short, ''Luxo Jr.'', made in 1986. "Luxo" was trademarked by Jac Jacobsen Industrier A.S. The sound effects are also taken from said short. Luxo Jr. was also a unlockable character in ''Lego The Incredibles'', known simply as "Junior" and was unlocked after completing a Family Build of Luxo Jr. and the ball. Both the build and the character are made with Lego bricks and are different than the one shown in the Pixar logo variant shown below. | ||
* The logo was designed by Pixar veteran Pete Docter and animated by Pixar subsidiary Hi Tech Toons. | * The logo was designed by Pixar veteran Pete Docter and animated by Pixar subsidiary Hi Tech Toons. | ||
* This was done on an SGI Indigo workstation. The lamp and the letters were modeled with Alias/Wavefront PowerAnimator and textured with Amazon Paint. The logo was rendered with PhotoRealistic Renderman on a Sun Microsystems supercomputer with a SPARC processor. The logo was recorded to 35mm negative on Management Graphics equipment with Monaco Labs developing it to reversal. | * This was done on an SGI Indigo workstation. The lamp and the letters were modeled with Alias/Wavefront PowerAnimator and textured with Amazon Paint. The logo was rendered with PhotoRealistic Renderman on a Sun Microsystems supercomputer with a SPARC processor. The logo was recorded to 35mm negative on Management Graphics equipment with Monaco Labs developing it to reversal. | ||
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*Seen on all Pixar movies and shorts from 1995 onward, with the exception of the 3-D prints of most newer movies, which use the next logo below. | *Seen on all Pixar movies and shorts from 1995 onward, with the exception of the 3-D prints of most newer movies, which use the next logo below. | ||
*It first appeared at the very end of ''Toy Story'' (and appears at the beginning of said film on most current prints, following the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo, and plastering the Pixar variant of the WDP logo) and has appeared at the beginning and end of all Pixar features starting with ''A Bug's Life''. | *It first appeared at the very end of ''Toy Story'' (and appears at the beginning of said film on most current prints, following the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo, and plastering the Pixar variant of the WDP logo) and has appeared at the beginning and end of all Pixar features starting with ''A Bug's Life''. | ||
*Also appears on video games based on Pixar films. It also had a variant of the logo in ''Lego The Incedibles'', and was rendered in-game, carring over from the Disney logo, as an Omnidroid, made in Lego bricks, which was was turned into a ball as Luxo Jr., also made in Lego bricks, was bouncing onto it and destroys it. After Luxo Jr. looks at the camera, it zooms out to reveal the rest of the Pixar letters, which are all made in Lego bricks, as the "R is being built before being covered up. | *Also appears on video games based on Pixar films. It also had a variant of the logo in ''Lego The Incedibles'', and was rendered in-game, carring over from the Disney logo, as an Omnidroid, made in Lego bricks, which was was turned into a ball as Luxo Jr., also made in Lego bricks, a la the Lego version of the second trailer for ''Cars 2'', was bouncing onto it and destroys it. After Luxo Jr. looks at the camera, it zooms out to reveal the rest of the Pixar letters, which are all made in Lego bricks, as the "R is being built before being covered up. | ||
*The original version was last used on ''Ratatouille''; it later made reappearances on the teaser for ''Cars 2'' in 2010 and a TV spot for the 3D re-release of ''Finding Nemo'' in 2012. | *The original version was last used on ''Ratatouille''; it later made reappearances on the teaser for ''Cars 2'' in 2010 and a TV spot for the 3D re-release of ''Finding Nemo'' in 2012. | ||
*The remastered logo debuted on ''WALL-E'', and it was last used at the end of ''Incredibles 2'', due to having a custom variant at the beginning. | *The remastered logo debuted on ''WALL-E'', and it was last used at the end of ''Incredibles 2'', due to having a custom variant at the beginning. | ||