Famous cartoon characters, such as Popeye and Woody, are transformed into live-action. While some classic animated movies and shows, such as Aladdin and Winnie-the-Pooh, have been given live-action counterparts, other animated figures are relegated to their original medium. With no live-action direct reference, this leaves interpretation up in the air as to what those animated figures would look like in real life.
Artist Robson Lami has taken this creative liberty in stride with his rendering of popular animated figures into live-action photoshopped versions. Check out the video below:
The artist released a short side-by-side video of several famous animated figures, including Toy Story’s Woody, Family Guy’s Peter Griffin, and Coraline’s titular Coraline, and their photoshopped real-life counterparts. Other characters adapted by Lami included Popeye, The Simpsons’ Homer Simpson, and even the Starbucks logo.
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While none of the Lami’s figures are particularly aesthetically pleasing, some of the renditions are far more disturbing than others. Topping the list is likely Doug Funnie, who hails from the Nickelodeon-turned-Disney series Doug. Doug’s facial features include an exaggeratedly big nose and improperly spaced-out eyes that give the figure a disconcerting look.
Doug may be the most horrifying in the real-life vision, but several others in the slate give the character a run for his money. Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson both look uncouth when so directly interpreted against the original. The exaggerated features that work when styled to animation are unnerving when put on a more human-like illustration. The Starbucks model is perhaps the biggest surprise of the group, with a real-life version that strangely sexualized the popular coffee logo.
Others in Lami’s highly literal interpretations are more respectable adaptations of their animated counterparts. While still a bit waxy-looking, Woody looks reasonably like a live-action Toy Story actor wearing prosthetics. Real-life Coraline is the most natural-looking of the group, with a square face that while disproportional, looks relatively human. Overall, Lami’s video provides unique and original interpretations of what cartoon characters would look like in an alternate universe.
