My idea for the latest artefact was inspired by Luxo Jr, the character that

Pixar Animation Studios first created for the Siggraph exhibition in 1986.

This character has developed over the years with character properties that I Thought

I could use. For example it’s an easy character to recreate with plenty of references and simple enough to be created within my time frame, even more important is the amount of information that we have about this character from the time of its creation to the present day. We know how the object looked like before it was made into the animated character and we also know why changes where done to the original character from the articles that were published during the Siggraph exhibition of 1986.

My goal is to take the specific character and remove the small variations that were done and create the object of the Character.

I found some blue-prints of an old model of the Luxo Lamp and from those I created my characters, gave them similar colours and basically created a “lamp”.

I want to see how many people will recognise it as a “Luxo Lamp” the Pixar character and how many will see it just as a “lamp”.

The differences between them are quite obvious, but I feel that the success of the “Luxo Lamp” the Pixar “Luxo Jr.” animated character will overwhelmingly win as an image and more people will relate to that, than the alternative “lamp” .

Through my questionnaire I hope to see how differently people view my “Luxo Lamp” character, upon whether they had knowledge of “Luxo Jr.” the character that

Pixar Animation Studios first created, or Not.