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Jobs and Catmull decided that, in order to show off their hardware and software,
喬布斯和卡特穆爾決定，為了展示皮克斯的硬件和軟件，
Lasseter should produce another short animated film in 1986 for SIGGRAPH, the annual computer graphics conference.
應該讓拉塞特再制作一部動畫短片，參加1986年的SIGGRAPH (美國計算機協會計算機繪圖專業組大會)。
At the time, Lasseter was using the Luxo lamp on his desk as a model for graphic rendering,
拉塞特的辦公桌上放著一盞Luxo臺燈，他把這盞臺燈用做圖形渲染的模型，
and he decided to turn Luxo into a lifelike character.
并決定把Luxo變成一個栩栩如生的動畫角色。
A friend's young child inspired him to add Luxo Jr.,
一位朋友的小孩給了他靈感，他在故事中添加了一個小臺燈（Luxo Jr.)的角色。
and he showed a few test frames to another animator, who urged him to make sure he told a story.
拉塞特向另一位動畫師展示一些測試幀時，對方力勸他用這兩個角色講一個故事。
Lasseter said he was making only a short, but the animator reminded him that a story can be told even in a few seconds.
拉塞特表示，自己只是在做一部短片，但那位動畫師提醒他說，即便幾秒鐘也能講述一個故事。
Lasseter took the lesson to heart. Luxo Jr. ended up being just over two minutes;
拉塞特將這個告誡銘記于心?！额B皮跳跳燈》最后的成片只有兩分多鐘，
it told the tale of a parent lamp and a child lamp pushing a ball back and forth until the ball bursts, to the child's dismay.
但是它講述了一個故事--臺燈爸爸和臺燈孩子把一個球推來推去，后來球爆了，小臺燈很傷心。
Jobs was so excited that he took time off from the pressures at NeXT to fly down with Lasseter to SIGGRAPH,
喬布斯非常激動，特意從NeXT公司壓力重重的工作中抽身，和拉塞特飛赴SIGGRAPH大會。
which was being held in Dallas that August.
這一年的大會于8月在達拉斯舉行。
"It was so hot and muggy that when we'd walk outside the air hit us like a tennis racket," Lasseter recalled.
“天氣太熱太悶，我們一走出去，就覺得熱氣像網球拍一樣迎面揮了過來?！崩鼗貞浾f。
