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Cars 3 is released in June, and if its creators are to be believed, Pixar"s latest will please both petrolheads and Disney lovers alike. Top Gear spoke to the film"s creative director, Jay Ward, and its head of character design, Jay Shuster at the Detroit motor show.TG: Tell us what to expect from Cars 3.Jay Ward: This film is a lot to me like the first film in terms of the emotional heart and connection. This is back to being a Lightning McQueen story. It"s back to being a hero"s journey.The gearheads loved Cars for the authenticity, but I think Pixar and families loved it because you get to know these characters. This is a film where you"re going to get to know these characters deeply again.TG: Which new cars are in the film?Jay Shuster: The standout is Jackson Storm. He"s McQueen"s primary competition. Basically like what we did for McQueen in the first film, design a car that sets apart from the other racers on the track.We"ve done Storm to create something that completely contradicts McQueen"s form, his attitude, he"s digital, rather than anologue, and his shapes jagged rather than flowing. Everything had to communicate his character about his opposition and basically, he"s the nemesis to McQueen.Each character is its own puzzle. You"re working for years on these characters. Storm took a good year and a half of creation.TG: It sounds like Storm is an electric carJW: No, Storm still has a V8. People expect V8 muscle from an American car. Part of my job is the authenticity, making sure we get those things right. I always think about the personality of that car. Obviously it"s loosely based on Nascar stock car racing, but we really push the boundaries to something more exciting and fun, to be honest.When you flip these cars under, there"ll be live axle, solid axle, independent suspension we put all that in there even though you don"t see it. So when the animation team is actually animating them, we can make a character move tightly on its suspension, or loose and sloppy for an old car. We build all that in.TG: Do you put other Easter Eggs in the films to satisfy car nerds?JW: I try to find influential people that I love in the car world and emulate them somehow. There are so many great stories, as you know, that the truth is always more interesting than making it up. Sometimes you"ll read a story about something that"s really influential and we try to personify that in a vehicle.For instance, Sarge, the World War Two Jeep, from Cars. The story of the Willys Jeep is amazing. Here was this little strange utility vehicle that was so well built, so simple and so well engineered that the Germans and the enemies would try to get them, to have them for their own. Their cars would get stuck in the mud and the Jeep would keep going. That became Sarge.
Date written: 13 Jan 2017
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ID: 6390
Cars 3 is released in June, and if its creators are to be believed, Pixar"s latest will please both petrolheads and Disney lovers alike. Top Gear spoke to the film"s creative director, Jay Ward, and its head of character design, Jay Shuster at the Detroit motor show.TG: Tell us what to expect from Cars 3.Jay Ward: This film is a lot to me like the first film in terms of the emotional heart and connection. This is back to being a Lightning McQueen story. It"s back to being a hero"s journey.The gearheads loved Cars for the authenticity, but I think Pixar and families loved it because you get to know these characters. This is a film where you"re going to get to know these characters deeply again.TG: Which new cars are in the film?Jay Shuster: The standout is Jackson Storm. He"s McQueen"s primary competition. Basically like what we did for McQueen in the first film, design a car that sets apart from the other racers on the track.We"ve done Storm to create something that completely contradicts McQueen"s form, his attitude, he"s digital, rather than anologue, and his shapes jagged rather than flowing. Everything had to communicate his character about his opposition and basically, he"s the nemesis to McQueen.Each character is its own puzzle. You"re working for years on these characters. Storm took a good year and a half of creation.TG: It sounds like Storm is an electric carJW: No, Storm still has a V8. People expect V8 muscle from an American car. Part of my job is the authenticity, making sure we get those things right. I always think about the personality of that car. Obviously it"s loosely based on Nascar stock car racing, but we really push the boundaries to something more exciting and fun, to be honest.When you flip these cars under, there"ll be live axle, solid axle, independent suspension we put all that in there even though you don"t see it. So when the animation team is actually animating them, we can make a character move tightly on its suspension, or loose and sloppy for an old car. We build all that in.TG: Do you put other Easter Eggs in the films to satisfy car nerds?JW: I try to find influential people that I love in the car world and emulate them somehow. There are so many great stories, as you know, that the truth is always more interesting than making it up. Sometimes you"ll read a story about something that"s really influential and we try to personify that in a vehicle.For instance, Sarge, the World War Two Jeep, from Cars. The story of the Willys Jeep is amazing. Here was this little strange utility vehicle that was so well built, so simple and so well engineered that the Germans and the enemies would try to get them, to have them for their own. Their cars would get stuck in the mud and the Jeep would keep going. That became Sarge.
Date written: 13 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6390
