Luxo Jr. (character)

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Luxo Jr. is a semi-anthropomorphic toy desk lamp character used as the primary mascot of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the protagonist of the short film Luxo Jr. and appears on the production logo of every Pixar film, hopping into view and jumping on the capital letter "I" in "PIXAR" to flatten it ever since 1995. John Lasseter created the character, modeling it after his own Luxo brand lamp. Lasseter based its infant-like proportions on Spencer, the toddler son of Pixar team member Tom Porter. The 1986 short, in which the lamp plays with a ball alongside a larger lamp, Luxo Sr., debuted at that year's SIGGRAPH show in Dallas and demonstrated advances in self-shadowing. Luxo Jr. also appeared in four educational shorts that Pixar made for Sesame Street in 1991, and animatronic figures of the character have stood at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure. In 2009, the manufacturer of Luxo lamps sued Disney, the parent company of Pixar, for selling Luxo Jr.-branded merchandise.

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