Cartoons are made in the image and likeness of humans, except they don’t exactly look like us. Their whacky shaped heads and odd body proportions make them slightly different to us. And now a Brazilian artist has decided to show us how different they really are by recreating their skeletons.
46-year-old Luis Rogério Faria Rosa has reimagined some of our beloved cartoon characters in their skeletal forms – and let me tell you, it’s slightly terrifying.
Their odd teeth, and misshapen heads might be endearing, but when you strip a character down to their bones, we see just how deformed they actually are.
Take Timmy Turner from Fairly Odd Parents, his gigantic teeth make fora very eery skeleton. Not to mention that stark difference in skull size compared to his body.
Straight up freaky, right?! However, the back of his skull gives us some indication of how his precariously placed hat stays in place all day. But Timmy isn’t the only character with odd body proportions…
South Park is known for it’s short, round characters. And Luis doesn’t leave them out in his creations.
Here’s Eric Cartman in all his squat, bulbous glory:
Onto the even more absurd of Luis’ creations has to be Phineas from Phineas and Ferb. If you’ve ever watched the show you’re familiar with the triangle-shaped, ginger-haired Phineas. And if, like me, you’ve ever wondered how exactly would that head-shape be possible – Luis has you covered:
In my opinion, Phineas is definitely the most terrifying of the bunch.
Speaking to Bored Panda, Luis spoke of his inspiration behind the collection: “I am very observant in the details; since I was a child, I noticed that some characters had parts of the body that anatomically did not correspond to normal, and I wondered what their skeleton would be behind those bodies. Today’s cartoons abuse even more contours that would be difficult to exist in a human or animal form. So, with that in mind, I chose some characters from current drawings and others that have been well known for decades and decided to imagine if they had skeletons.”
It certainly is a very fascinating (yet disturbing) concept. Find more of Luis’ work on YouTube and Deviant Art.
Of course, Luis isn’t the first artists to reimagine cartoons. Check out Hossein Diba’s work on imagining The Simpsons as real people.
