![]() ![]() The original suspension had to be reinvented in order to support all the stretchings that Francesco's gestures would cause, and the team had important struggles to achieve a believable suspension. It was one of the big challenges trying to figure out how to support everything that’s going on with the body." With Francesco, we can see the connection between the wheels and the body. All you really see is the hard body of the car, and the wheels acting. So we can hide our dirty little secrets underneath the hood, because the chassis is moving around and stretching around. ![]() As supervising animator Dave Mullins said: "We always have fenders covering the wheels. According to Shuster: "Francesco was the hardest design to complete because of his exposed suspension". The fact that Francesco, as an open-wheeled car, has his suspension visible, posed some unusual problems to the animators. The mouth is at the end of a foreshortened nose, and not underneath it as originally envisioned. As says Character Art Director Jay Shuster, "Formula cars have long snouts, so we had to really inflate his form to get the real estate we needed." Ultimately, the eyes were placed on a sort of helmet that is integrated with the body. Indeed, F1 cars do not have a windshield. This will be perfect.""Bernoulli's design took four months to be finalized as the team worked out where to put the mouth and how to give an F1 car a "windshield" for the eyes. Let’s make him Italian, an Italian Formula 1 car. To have an open wheel car, like Francesco, it gives us a lot more gestures." And so we thought, "Well this guy's going to be gesturing like crazy. Director John Lasseter said: "We don't typically lift the tires off, partly because of the fender. While developing a Formula One character for the film, the developing team realized that a such open-wheeled car could make much more gesture than normal cars with fenders. 2.3 Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure. ![]()
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