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Check This Out: The Real Guts of Lightning McQueen From Cars!
by Alex Billington
August 18, 2008
Source: Agent44.com
Just because I'm a huge Pixar fanboy and just because I thought everyone could use some fun to kick off their Monday morning, I'm featuring this fantastic drawing from artist Jake Parker. Courtesy of his official blog (via the wonderful Cartoon Brew), we've got a look at Parker's "design" for the real human anatomy inside of Lightning McQueen from Pixar's Cars. He explains that, "you have these cars, but with actual fleshy eyes, with irises, and mouths of teeth and tongues. Where does the machine end and the flesh begin? So, to make everything piece together a little better in my head I drew up what I think the internal structures of Lightning McQueen might look like." And that's where Parker decided to draw out the guts inside and let me tell you, it's definitely worth a quick look!
Parker adds in his blog that: "Cars is the [Pixar] only movie they've done where they've extricated the experience from our world and put it somewhere else completely. And that leads me to the one thing that didn't sit well with me: the strange machine/flesh hybrids Pixar came up with to populate this world. It's as if a mad scientist enamored with automobiles terraformed Mars and furnished it with cyborg vehicles with engines of steel and minds of flesh." Pretty hilarious intro, but this drawing is just amazing.
On discussing the film itself, Parker brings up an interesting point regarding Pixar's choice of characters over the years, but I can't say I ever felt that way about Cars. I actually really enjoyed the movie, as I do all of Pixar's films, and would say the characters felt the same as any other movie they've done. I don't like when Pixar animates humans, with The Incredibles being the only exception thanks to Brad Bird. For some odd reason they never seem like a good fit and are always too weird - just look at the humans in Wall-E! Anyway, I'm glad I ran across this great drawing and thanks again to both Cartoon Brew and Jake Parker! Be sure to check out more on his blog. And here's a photo of the real Lightning McQueen for reference.
17 Comments
1
That's freaky as hell. Reminds me of this: http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=18
Tom Brazelton on Aug 18, 2008
2
Pretty freaky stuff there =)
Napoleon Dynamite on Aug 18, 2008
3
thats so completely disgusting ...
E on Aug 18, 2008
4
awesome. thanks alex.
Buttons on Aug 18, 2008
5
A pixar movie will never be the same for me again.
Jesse on Aug 18, 2008
6
there''s something i didn't need to see...EVER!
thejugfather on Aug 18, 2008
8
Haha nifty.... this is one of those things I never thought about but when I saw it I was like "Oh... ok.. that makes sense"
CSpuppydog on Aug 18, 2008
9
So he needs an exhaust and a bowel? Interesting. What exactly is in his stomach anyway?
Rabban on Aug 18, 2008
10
Yep, that's pretty gross, heh.
L on Aug 18, 2008
11
I was a little grossed out but wow, of all the weird things I've seen on the internet, that's the weirdest
Kail on Aug 18, 2008
13
Ew..
Bryan on Aug 18, 2008
14
"Long live the new flesh."
avoidz on Aug 18, 2008
15
He he he. No genitalia.
Mario Tenorio on Aug 19, 2008
16
Yuck, Yuck, Yuch Bleah Bleah, Bleah, Bleah Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Eli Gordon on Aug 11, 2010
17
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Eli Gordon on Aug 11, 2010
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