Carification - For the Love of Detail

Hello again! I have recently learned that I am obsessed with art. Yeah, you would have thought that in my 33 years of constantly drawing, painting, and creating I would have figured that out. I even minored in art in college, but it has only been the past couple of months when my life was turned on it's head that I realized how important art is to me. After my religion and my family, art is my only real passion. I just can't get enough of it.
It's gotten to the point that I see past the obvious and focus just on the small details. Case in point, JM is 2 years old. He is love with what he calls "beep-beeps" which are cars, trucks, planes, etc. I, being a girly-girl, never paid that much attention to cars. In the past 8 months JM has pointed out every shirt, toy, picture, tv show, and movie that has a car in it. Trust me, they are everywhere. His favorite movies are Disney Pixar's Cars and Cars 2. Once he receives Cars 3 on blu-ray that will also become a favorite. He watches them once, sometimes twice, a day. Everything in his life seems to revolve around Lightning McQueen.

I don't know if it's mother's love, the brilliant work of Pixar, or a combination of both but I have yet to "tire" of Cars. I feel like it should drive me crazy, but it hasn't happened yet. In fact, I have fallen in love with the amount of detail that was put into creating the world of cars. As I was looking up some of the fabulous details to share with you I learned even more.
When it comes to creating a believable world that mimics the real world, it takes a lot of focus and attention to details. They couldn't just place them in a cartoon world exactly like ours, it wouldn't make any sense. Believablity is all in the tiny, tiny details. As the creators went through each detail to make it more automotive in style and shape, they called it "Carification." Let me show you just a few of gems that are found in Cars 2.
The most noticeable elements are the buildings they carified. The details for Notre Dame in Paris is exquisite when you realize that it only used as a background building for a couple of minutes.

Radiator covers at the bell towers, pipes for the flying buttresses, and antennas, gauges and headlights as the sculptural decorations! Applause! Applause!
Check out the little details in how the buildings were constructed in the Japanese pagodas.

Let's take a moment to look at the casino. Again, the structural details are automobile related.

Statues, both inside and out, have been carified which just makes me wonder about the possible backstories associated with them.

One of my absolute favorite things in this movie are the background frescoes in the casino. The translation of classical art into modern pop culture with such attention to detail and respect to the original style shows how dedicated the creators were to making a quality movie that could be appreciated by young and old alike.

True, I am just pointing out some of the amazing details without offering much in the way of commentary or insight. However, sometimes all we need is someone to point out the details in order for us to truly appreciate them.
I will end with a few of the "Easter eggs" that can be found in Cars 2.
Here, at "Ye Left Turn Inn," we have a carified tapistry of Merida and her parents from the movie, Brave.

In the wholesale market there is a poster in one of the stalls giving nod to "The Incredibles."

In the background of this scene we can see a movie poster for "A Bugs Life." I love the tongue-in-cheek with this one.

And, of course, it wouldn't be a true Pixar movie without some type of nod to the original, "Toy Story."