Sunday, February 21, 2016

vehicles in the Zootopia movie by Pixar, designed by former Ford lead designer J Mays

What would a moose drive? “I really struggled with that one,” says former Ford design boss J Mays, who now lives in Britain where, among other things, he spends one day a week lecturing post-grad transportation design students at the Royal College of Art. “They didn’t tell me a lot, other than it would be driven by an older moose, so it would be nice to have an older car.”

Mays settled on a convertible — easier to package those broad antlers — but it wasn’t until he happened to look at a picture of the character upside down that it occurred to him to put all the visual weight at the bottom of the car, balancing the moose’s impressive headwear. The Moose Car therefore has a tall body on a broad platform, and its hood was inspired by the iconic front-drive 1936-’37 Cord 810/812 designed by Gordon Buehrig.


The Pig Car riffs on the quirky Morgan 3 Wheeler, whose design has changed little since the company’s 1927 Super Sport. The Mouse Car is a mildly reworked version of the tiny BMW Isetta 300 bubble car built between 1956 and 1962.



The most conventional Mays car is the Zootopia Police Department SUV driven by the movie’s protagonist, a rabbit called Judy Hopps, voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin. “With the SUV we were trying to give the lead character a vehicle that reflected her aspirations to be a real police officer,” says Mays. “It does fall into the generic, over-the-top SUV stereotype but that’s exactly why it works. You just wouldn’t expect a small rabbit to be driving something as aggressive as this.”

http://www.motortrend.com/news/the-cars-of-zootopia-what-would-a-moose-drive/

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