Pinokio is truly a Pixar lamp come to life. Pixar: Starry Adventures Table Lamps Pixar Studios Mascot Lamp
Symbol Pixar is a cute animated lamp that appears in the title cards of films released by this studio. A group of New Zealand engineering students from the University of Wellington created a real embodiment of this animated character - lamp, named by them Pinokio.
Pinocchio is one of the most famous characters in world literature. The story of a wooden doll that came to life inspired the creativity of thousands of writers, artists, filmmakers, designers and even design engineers. The latter include students from Wellington, who created an unusual toy they called Pinokio.
The appearance of Pinokio is a tribute not only to the work of writer Carlo Colodi, but also to the animators of the Pixar studio, who know how to “revive” not only wooden toy, but also many other, much less anthropomorphic things, for example, a table lamp.
This is precisely the “live” version of the animated lamp from the Pixar studio that Pinokio represents.
Wellington University students have equipped an ordinary table lamp with a clever mechanism that includes not only mechanical hinges, but also a video camera and light and sound sensors. This entire system is controlled by a microprocessor.
Essentially, this device is both a web camera and a robot that can find a person, point the lens at his face, and also act according to several behavioral models embedded at the software level.
Pinokio is the most “smart” and charming lamp in the world, which can easily become your new pet, which is distinguished from real animals by the absence of the need to feed and walk it. True, you won’t be able to turn off this “little animal” when you get tired of it - the Pinokio system is equipped with a programmed behavior model, thanks to which the lamp itself will turn the toggle switch back on if you suddenly switch it to the “Off” state.
In 1986, Pixar produced its first film. That is why our logo has a jumping lamp.
The company dates back to 1979 – that’s when George Lucas hired Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology. Ed became head of the department computer technology at Lucasfilm. Seven years later, in 1986, Steve Jobs bought this department from Lucas. A team of 40 people formed independent company, Pixar.
The name was a fictitious noun (Kodak and Xerox were named using the same principle) - it was originally invented for Pixar Image Computer. By the way, in 1986 Steve Jobs also hired Paul Rand to design the NeXT logo.
The same Pixar Image Computer
One of Pixar's first projects was the short film Luxo Jr. It was the official directorial debut of John Lasseter [Toy Story, Cars] and also became the first 3D animated film to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Subject category.
Luxo Jr. became real business card Pixar, serving as a mascot and appearing at the beginning and end of each film. You probably know what happens if you've seen the Pixar movie - Luxo jumps out from the right, stops next to the letter "I" and rides on it until it flattens. The same thing happens in the original short with the ball.
In some films, the logo animation underwent slight changes. For example, in Wall-E (2008), Luxo's light bulb burns out and main character appears in the frame to replace her.
There is an entire Pixar Wiki page that describes various variations on the theme of the action sequence. There are not many exceptions - in other films everything follows the standard pattern.
According to Lee Unkreh, the animation for the Pixar logo was made by Pete Docter, director of “Monsters, Inc.” and “Up.”
The logo was later reanimated for an image in more high resolution. But whoever did the work was simply reflecting what Pete had already created.
Pixar's animation pays homage to the very first work, Luxo Jr. Story.
