What happens if you were facing a challenge to speed paint a Pixar character in a warrior theme? Well, for a trio of friends, it is a challenge that resulted in awesomeness. Carlos Villagra, Chad King, and Jorge Lacera created some epic fan art of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, Wall-E from Wall-E, and Russell from Up!. Considering, 100% of Pixar’s movies and cast of characters is very tame and G rated, it is nice to see some muscle and grit in these classic characters. I could imagine Buzz cutting off some poor sucker’s head during an intergalactic war. It is pretty amazing that these guys were able to create these works of art on a whim and produce such vibrant art. There is no details on how long each piece took, but the result was magical. My favorite has to be the jousting Russell considering many people have said that I look like him. /sigh
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Awesome. Grumpy and the ever so adventurous Carl Fredricksen from Pixar’s Up is the newest celebrity to grace the cover of Hear the World. Hear the World is a publication that is owned by Phonaks (a manufacturer of hearing aid devices) that promotes hearing loss awareness.
Phonak is pleased to announce that Carl Fredricksen has agreed to become the 36th ambassador for the Hear the World initiative. In this role, Carl is joining the likes of Plácido Domingo, Harry Belafonte, Diane Kruger, Bryan Adams, Moby and Annie Lennox – to name but a few.
Carl Fredericksen will be the first fictional/virtual individual to grace the cover of Hear the World, however, he is in good company as past celebrities that were feature includes singer icon Rod Stewart, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, and D-list everything, Lindsey Lohan (there’s always a bad egg in the bunch). You can check out a PDF version of the article on Carl, free of charge.
Article download: “Plan “B” for “balloon” – or: An old man takes to the skies to find happiness”
[super punch > pixar blog]
