{"id":13075,"date":"2016-08-22T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13075"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:49:25","slug":"sci-tech-robot-duo-pay-tribute-to-pixars-luxo-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13075","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Robot duo pay tribute to Pixar&#8217;s Luxo Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish\u00a0visual effects company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillerstudios.se\/\" target=\"_d\">Stiller Studios<\/a>\u00a0 has released a video of two of its motion control robots re-enacting a famous animation debut from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/movies\/a22463\/robotic-tribute-pixar\/?src=TrueAnth_POPMECHANICS_TW&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=57b87c6504d3015c042b63a5&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">Motion Control Studio Releases Robotic Tribute to Pixar &#8211; Popular Mechanics<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamag.co\/features\/happy-30th-birthday-pixars-luxo-jr\/\" target=\"_d\">Happy 30th Birthday, Pixar&#8217;s Luxo Jr. &#8211; Animation, Inspiration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two robots wishing Pixar&#039;s Luxo Jr. a happy birthday!\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/179175832?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is the orbital Pixar Luxo Jr. animation released on\u00a0August 17, 1986:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D4NPQ8mfKU0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish\u00a0visual effects company Stiller Studios\u00a0 has released a video of two of its motion control robots re-enacting a famous animation debut from Pixar: Motion Control Studio Releases Robotic Tribute to Pixar &#8211; Popular Mechanics\u00a0 Happy 30th Birthday, Pixar&#8217;s Luxo Jr. &#8211; Animation, Inspiration And here is the orbital Pixar Luxo Jr. animation released on\u00a0August &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Robot duo pay tribute to Pixar&#8217;s Luxo Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3oT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10309,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10309","url_meta":{"origin":13075,"position":0},"title":"Video: Apollo mission patches come together in 3-D animation","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Neil Smith has created an excellent\u00a03-D animation showing each of the\u00a0Apollo mission patches form from\u00a0its respective symbols: Tribute Video to Apollo Missions -\u00a0The Smiths' Occasional Blog Artist adds motion to NASA's iconic Apollo moon mission patches - collectSPACE https:\/\/youtu.be\/8vdqcxEuiic","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/8vdqcxEuiic\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6593,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6593","url_meta":{"origin":13075,"position":1},"title":"Video: Painted Stone &#8211; Asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Sloan Digital Sky Survey\u00a0released this impressive visualization of \u00a0100,000 asteroids. 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