The exhibition features rarely seen original concept drawings, character illustrations, storyboards, background paintings, sculptural models, props and digital stills.
Additional stimuli, which were incidental to the current study, included orthographic stimuli consisting of 16 black line-drawing characters on a white background and 16 audio files of spoken English words.
He mixes and matches their features, superimposes drawings of characters on one another, adds raw splotches of color to his coolly composed lines and flat tones.
But much of The Simpsons' brilliance is down to the extent to which they managed to build such a rich world, with so many fully-fleshed (for drawings) secondary characters.
"Miles would shoot me drawings and characters and the locations and we would kind of spend a long time talking about exactly what level of detail was going to be in there," Shef said.
The drawings feature characters who look exactly like Superman, Lois Lane, Lucy Lane, and Jimmy Olsen, but instead of standing up for justice and virtue they are sexually humiliating each other.
The original script (called The Yellow Car, about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world), some of the original drawings and characters were produced in 1998 and the producers agreed that Cars could be the next movie after A Bug's Life and would be released in early 1999, particularly around June 4.
The Greek-born artist Konstantin Kakanias is known for his drawings of eccentric characters, the most enduring of whom is a big-haired, beak-nosed, fashion-crazed woman-of-a-certain-age named Mrs. Tependris.
She added, "On the basis of the style and execution of the paintings and drawings, the character and the content of the letters, recipes and diary pages, I can tell you that they are fake".
The genesis for the episode were drawings that character designer and storyboard revisionist Natasha Allegri posted onto the internet during her free time.
