Sentence examples for car characters from inspiring English sources

A cynic might wonder if this film simply generates lots of different car characters for toys and branded merchandise.

Car characters such as Val Biro's Gumdrop or, most famously, Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, have become focal points of the ways in which families have celebrated cars as dependable, glamorous and liberating additions to the human family.

Our car characters may not have arms and legs, but we can lean the tires in or out to suggest hands opening up or closing in.

In 2006, supervising animator on the film Scott Clark, spoke about the challenges of animating car characters, saying: "Getting a full range of performance and emotion from these characters and making them still seem like cars was a tough assignment, but that's what animation does best.

Starting with pencil-and-paper designs from production designer Bob Pauley, and continuing through the modeling, articulation, and shading of the characters, and finally into animation, the production team worked hard to have the car characters remain true to their origins".

For The Record Los Angeles Times Wednesday, June 29 , 2011Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 41 words Type of Material: Correction "Cars 2": In the June 19 Calendar section, an article about "Cars 2" director John Lasseter erred in referring to one of the car characters as "Jethro Clampett-like". The character Jethro in "The Beverly Hillbillies" was a Bodine, not a Clampett.

Toys based on the Cars characters have brought in billions of dollars, according to the LA Times, while the Cars Land attraction at Disney's California Adventure theme park, in Anaheim, has proven equally popular.

Life-size versions of the Cars characters were positioned in a garage next to the real-life F1 teams and Wilson was again in attendance.

Part of the circuit is home to the Disney-Pixar and Marvel Action Zone which features life-size versions of the Cars characters, an inflatable obstacle course and replica props from the movies based on Disney's Marvel comics subsidiary.

The resulting tacky and tawdry vehicular bric-a-brac — cobbled into crescent wrench ornaments, air filter garland and hubcap Christmas trees — reflect the unique personalities of the "Cars" characters and the goods they sell in their shops.

The 'Cars' characters in particular are his babies". Automobiles are part of Lasseter's origin story: His father, Paul, who died in May at age 87, managed a Chevy parts dealership in Whittier.