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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Norwegian company is accusing Disney–Pixar of stealing its bright idea for Luxo – the crane-necked lamp that appears at the beginning of hit animated movies like “Toy Story” and “Wall-E.” Even more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pixar’s Luxo Jr., the sworn enemy of the letter “I,” has been introducing some of our favorite films for decades. That eager lamp is truly an iconic piece of animated furniture. Now it’s also a ...