”Lasseter showed some test footage in Brussels of the lamp hitting a ball with its shade. Raoul Servais, the noted Belgian animator, was impressed and asked about the story. When Lasseter said the work was “just a character study,” Servais told him that no matter how short a film was, it should have a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end.

Pixar’s lamp shines a light on an animated universe - latimes.com