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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself"
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Date: 8 Mar 91 19:50:16 GMT
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In article <8501@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>In article <3003@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes:
>>Everybody seems to like Pixar's work, particularily Luxo, Jr.  Does anybody
>>know where their work is available.
>My graphics professor mentioned this.  He said that you can get it by
>contacting Pixar and buying it from them -- for about $25,000 (ouch!).

Hardly necessary......
The various John Lasseter / Pixar computer animated shorts are
available on video tape.  You can order them from Direct Cinema Limited:

    Film                                Price
    Luxo, Jr.                           $14.95
    Red's Dream                         $19.95
    Tin Toy                             $24.95
    Knickknack                          $24.95
    Luxo, Jr./Red's Dream/Tin Toy       $49.95

All tapes are on 1/2" VHS NTSC.  Add $10/tape for PAL format.  Also
available:

    Tin Toy T-shirt                     $15.00
    Knickknack 3D T-shirt               $15.00 (includes glasses)

Add $5 S&H for the first tape or shirt, $2 for each additional tape or
shirt.  Foreign shipping, add $3/tape or shirt.  Call 213-652-8000 to
charge to your credit card.  I would suggest calling first to verify
prices and availability.

>BTW, he also said that he recognized a couple of TV ads as Pixar's
>work -- a boxing Listerine bottle and a bouncing straw piercing an
>orange.  I have doubts about the Listerine ad, since that one did NOT
>do refraction and attenuation properly, but the straw one had the
>classic eyes on the straw that Pixar likes to use.

Both are Pixar creations as well as the Lifesavers Holes comercial with
the Holes playing on a playground. Why do you believe it can't be Pixar's
if the refraction or attenuation are not done properly? Refraction is rarely
used in comercial animation by anyone because the expense is too great
for so little effect (it generally goes unnoticed in a fast paced 5-10
second comercial). In Pixar's last non-commercial prduction, Knickknack,
the water filled glass bowl that the snowman was trapped in had no
refraction whatsoever. In fact I can't think of an instance in which a
Pixar film ever uses refraction (with the possible exception of the 
deformation of the baby's head when viewed through cellophane in Tin Toy).
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