From: good@pixar.com ("Forgiveness is easier to get than permission.")
Subject: Re: Pixar goes to the Movies
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 08:27:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep22.174940.22014@cc.tut.fi> jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) writes:
:
:In article <But1rw.3AG@CAM.ORG> emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
:>In article <jester.716696401@crash> jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
:>>Tin Toy--it was their THIRD one.  Then KnickKnack came out FOURTH.  Lava,
:>>Jr. (this is a rumor) is their latest.  I haven't seen it yet.
:>
:>Lava, Jr. is about a year old, and wasn't created by Pixar, if memory serves.
:>More details as I dig through my files...
:
:SIGGRAPH Video Review info (ftp siggraph.org) tells
:  Lava Jr./ Bauer, Luxo-Klone Productions.
:
:Also, was there
:  Luxo Jr. -- Light and Heavy?

Perhaps I can help...

The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. (1984)
		An android-ish character meets a bee with an attitude.

	We did this while still part of Lucasfilm and before the "Pixar"
	name was attached to much of anything.  At the time it was made,
	it was not called a "film" but a "demo" because our division of
	LFL was not allowed to make "films".  Now we can make all the
	films we want, so our Revisionist History Department calls it a film.

Luxo Jr. (1986)	(nominated for an Academy Award, but didn't win)
		A baby lamp plays ball with his dad.

	We started this before we spun off from LFL (Feb 1986) and it
	premiered at the 1986 SIGGRAPH along with the (very) short films
	"Flags & Waves" and "Beach Chair".  Wondering what happened to 1985?
	We were doing the stained glass man for "Young Sherlock Holmes".

Red's Dream (1987)
		A unicycle has big dreams about the circus.

	The only film we've done (to date) in the 1:85 aspect ratio.  David
	Slusser, who played the sax for the soundtrack, now has co-writing
	credit for one of the songs in the "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
	soundtrack.  We knew him when.

Tin Toy (1988) (winner of Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film)
		A toy's-eye-view of what monsters babys can be.

	Next to "Luxo Jr." this is probably our best-known film.  It probably
	has more hidden "Easter Eggs" than any of the others, too.

Knickknack (1989)
		A "snowman" in a plastic shaker-ball dome tries to join
		the other knickknacks on the shelf.

	Features an improvised score by Bobby McFerrin.  It's been shown
	in 3-D outside SIGGRAPH in only a couple of places.  Mostly just the
	left eye gets shown.

Luxo Jr. in "Surprize" and "Light & Heavy" (1991)
		Two short films about an abrupt emotion and physics

	We brought back the original cast of "Luxo Jr." to do these spots
	for Sesame Street.  CTW kindly allowed us to also put them on film
	for the festival circuit.  A new one, on spatial relationships, has
	been animated and should be finished RSN.

To review:

	We've made 5 animated shorts, plus the Sesame Street pieces which
we like to pretend are more animated shorts because, well, they *are* more
animated shorts.  "Flags & Waves" and "Beach Chair", at 10 and 14 seconds
respectively, are *very* shorts.

	As for TV commercials, (aren't you bored yet?), they include:

Life Savers Holes "Skateboard" (Holes at a playground)
Life Savers Holes "At the Beach" (cylinders playing volleyball)
Life Savers Gummy Savers "Conga" (a dance club for gummy candy)
Tropicana "Mr. Straw" (straw chases orange around a logo)
Listerine "Boxer" (with apologies to "Raging Bull")
Listerine "Knight" (a bottle with a sword and a shield? huh?)
Listerine "Jungle" (a bottle swinging on a vine? naturally)
Tetrapak "Lunchbox" (little drink boxes that can't wait to recycle themselves)
Tetrapak "Dream" (drink box dreams of saving the day as a roll of paper towel)
Incredibites "Snack" (a 2-D boy leaves his eating binge for a "healthy" snack)
Eggbeaters "Cracks" (an egg cracks and re-forms as a carton)
Sci-Fi Channel "Premiere Opener" (just kidding! Xaos did their stuff for them!)

And some foreign commercials with bugs and stuff.

		--Craig
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