How Pixar screwed up cartoon cars for a generation of kids

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How Pixar screwed up cartoon cars for a generation of kids

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I have ALWAYS thought this! Never did make sense why they put the eyes in the windshield!

As for me, ANY kind of car cartoon, the FACE of the car comes from the arrangement of the headlights, grille and front bumper -- and the headlights are of course, THE EYES!

Go here and read - I bet most of you will agree! Glad SOMEONE finally did a piece on this!

http://jalopnik.com/5870976/how-pixar-s ... on-of-kids



** And PS -- The word cartoon has nothing to actually do with cars. The word comes from the French 'carton', or Italian 'cartone', which means literally 'strong, heavy paper'. Over time its meaning was transferred to the preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper. This was the original and for nearly two centuries, only sense of the word in English.
Its application to comic drawings in newspapers and magazines began in the 1840s.

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Re: How Pixar screwed up cartoon cars for a generation of ki

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Glad to read that I'm not the only person who was bothered by how they anthromorphized the cars in Cars. Great article. Thanks for sharing that.

Funny how they spoon-feed kids information these days. Kids aren't given the chance to use their vivid imaginations.

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Absolutely true. Kids have ZERO imagination in the current world. Well, not all, but MOST of them don't.



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