Once you are gluing the pieces together, drill three holes into the bar (one at either end, and then one on the inner most side). What I finally ended up doing was cutting out a Z shaped leg out of sheet metal and then attaching it to the back with some Gorilla Glue.
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The entire height of the bracket should be the same size as your 3 1/2'' straight brackets.īy the way, I don't know how to weld so I originally had no idea how I was going to attach this leg together. I cut three individual metal parts from the remaining Straight Brackets, and filed them down to the specific angle. It gave a really nice detail of that specific leg shape, so I was able to create a template from it on graph paper. It what holds his inner springs together, as well as his lower V- Hinges.Īnyway, long story short, I did a lot of image searching and finally used this as the basic template for my image. If you haven't noticed, the two leg sections that connect Luxo Jr's V-body hinge to his leg V hinge, is this kind of stretched out Z shaped metal bar. Not necessarily because it that hard to make, but just grabbing the specific dimensions for this unique piece was nearly impossible to find. Creating this part of the lamp was easily the most difficult of the project, and the most time I spent on it. I printed it out from my computer, did some basic ratios, and roughly estimated that my lamp would stand at around 1/30th the size standing at 1 foot tall. I found the below image from Flickr and it was perfect, since it gave a nice structured overlay for entire statue. Also, apart from the head, I knew that the rest of his "legs" from my existing anglepoise lamp could be cut down to scale, in order to fit my needs. In order to make my lamp as film accurate as possible, I ended up doing a lot of research into Luxo Jr's specific dimensions and size. The diameter of the head will always be used as the common denominator, when calculating the various size ratios.įor reference, The ratio from Head diameter to Body and Leg rods~ 5 in/ 3.15in For instance, the circumference of my lamp's head was 5'', so each of the connecting rods were around 3''. Everything else the leg sizes, screw lengths, V connectors, spring size should follow. will depend on the size of the diameter of your Lamp's Head. Since this as well as the base are the only things that can't be resized/ scaled, depending for your Luxo Jr. Start by measuring the diameter of your lamp's head.
Since mine had a different base, I needed to buy another one at Goodwill) Circular Lamp Base (depending on your type of anglepoise lamp you purchased, you might not need this.Anglepoise Lamp (I got mine at Target for $25).playing with an even larger ball, as Luxo just wonders.Here's what you'll need to build him: Supplies is admonished by Luxo, who then finds Luxo Jr. The ball eventually deflates due to Luxo Jr. (small) and a bigger lamp are playing with a small inflated rubber ball, chasing it and trying to balance on it, as Luxo (large) reacts to these antics. The only characters are two Anglepoise desk lamps, one large and one small, inspired by a Luxo brand task-light on John Lasseter's desk (hence the title). This is why we have a hopping lamp in our logo."
In a subsequent re-release after Pixar became popular, a pretext was added to the film reading, "In 1986 Pixar produced its first film. It was the first Pixar short to release within a Pixar film.It is the source of the small hopping desk lamp included in Pixar's corporate logo.
It is a computer-animated short film (two and a half minutes, including credits), demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar Animation Studios, following its establishment as an independent film studio. Two Lamps, Luxo Jr and Luxo Sr playing with a ball