Here are some artistic interpretations of what animated characters would look like if they were real people.
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July 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM |
that shit was great
August 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM |
Why inject vulgar language into this? Can you not communicate with some civility?
August 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Why stop to reply to something over a month old? Can you not get all flustered over a combination of letters that society has arbitrarily deemed unacceptable?
October 25, 2009 at 10:47 PM |
ditto <–rofl irony at its best…
July 17, 2009 at 9:40 PM |
Thats frigging horrifying.
July 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM |
hahaha yeah tell me about it, i think id prefer these characters remain cartoons, especially homer eughh
October 2, 2009 at 11:21 PM |
i agree. i don’t think i can watch the Simpsons again.
July 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM |
Very cool – I love it.
July 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM |
I’m BLOWN AWAY! All my little smart-ass remarks sat their unruly butts down and became uber attentive. Is this your artwork???? WOOOOOW!
July 18, 2009 at 11:38 AM |
OMFG… Butthead looks like Keanu Reeves….
July 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM |
Wow ! These are fantastic…if a little freaky…but so clever ! Thanks for sharing.
July 18, 2009 at 7:06 PM |
This is great, I never pictures the simpsons characters to look so hideous in real life. And Ian is right, I completely see Keanu Reeves in Butthead
July 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM |
These are absolutely brilliant, you caught my attentions attention, keep it up. Glenn
July 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM |
All this cartoons character do appear in cartoons right? they all look so familiar
July 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM |
Holy moly, I love it.
July 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM |
lol bart simpson looks so weird nice post!
July 19, 2009 at 3:19 AM |
Jessica Rabbit looks just like Sasha Grey.
July 23, 2009 at 4:34 PM |
haha, youre albsolutely right…wait…lemme check…..yeahhh
July 19, 2009 at 5:40 AM |
Yeah…that’s just creepy…
July 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM |
wow, these are fantastic
July 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM |
Popeye and Bart Simpson are sooo ugly. I think Mario should be a little cuter though.
July 20, 2009 at 3:34 AM |
I would say, Mario looks more “NORMAL” then the rest. LOL!
July 20, 2009 at 4:42 AM |
Beavis & Butthead are great!!!
July 20, 2009 at 5:22 PM |
Great job! did you do these yourself? Some of them look more plausible then others, but they look good
July 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM |
If you bother to look, the names of the artists are at the bottom of most of the pictures.
July 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM |
COOL!!!
July 20, 2009 at 10:48 PM |
This is so cool! And very freaky.
July 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM |
Good stuff, Want to see more!
July 21, 2009 at 7:00 AM |
Like it! Like it! Like it!
July 21, 2009 at 7:04 AM |
omg it was so scary
July 21, 2009 at 7:07 AM |
ha ha thats very funny
July 21, 2009 at 7:09 AM |
Stan Smith… Hehe, reminds me of the butt face episode of South Park.
July 21, 2009 at 7:15 AM |
Homer Simpson looks like Bruce Willis
July 21, 2009 at 7:17 AM |
My god, that was actually a bit scary, and extremely grabbing. I loved it. Jessica Rabbit looked like Angelina Jolie. AAHHWOOOO
July 21, 2009 at 7:18 AM |
very interesting. Computer graphics is amazing…
July 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM |
Beavis actually looks like Keanu Reeves… Just me?
July 21, 2009 at 7:38 AM |
HAHA, Hilarious post! Homer and Butthead are on point.
July 21, 2009 at 7:40 AM |
Good Gay, Hope more.
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July 21, 2009 at 7:45 AM |
That’s awsome ! I won’t see the Simpsons like before now !
July 21, 2009 at 7:45 AM |
I LOVED IT. damn hilarious. good job!
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July 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM |
LOL. I particularly liked Peter Griffin and Stewie Griffin. They’re my favs!
July 21, 2009 at 7:58 AM |
[...] This is a wonderful rendering real of our 2 dimensional cartoon favorites.Isn’t Charlie Brown sweet? and funny -looking? All the characters are very distorted- which is right, isn’t it? Cartoons are stretching our imaginations (sometimes). And the exaggerations are for the most part so very accurate we can really get who the characters are as cartoons and even more so when they are humanized. [...]
July 21, 2009 at 8:12 AM |
Oops! Unimaginable! Hilarious and Creative!
July 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM |
that was actually a bit scary, and extremely grabbing. I loved it. Jessica Rabbit looked like Angelina Joli kate gosselin cartoon.
July 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM |
LOL~
Pretty gross, but it’s sure interesting.
July 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM |
ROFL
July 21, 2009 at 8:36 AM |
this is actually really neat. makes some of the characters a lot uglier in person than they are on tv
July 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM |
Homer and Peter look extremely disgusting! haha But it’s pretty funny…
July 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM |
Awesome !!!
And they are all scary !!!
July 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM |
hey! its the eyes that make them all go real…so it appears that realistic eyes can make any face look real..that gives an impression of the face looking/staring at you…
July 21, 2009 at 8:49 AM |
Homer’s eyes are scary. Bart is so ugly! I want to see more!
July 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM |
These are awesome. A little creepy (especially Bart), but awesome.
July 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM |
Jessica Rabbit looks like Angelina Jolie
July 21, 2009 at 9:20 AM |
these images are sort of creepy lol. i would find it hard to laugh at peter griffin or homer if they looked like that
July 21, 2009 at 9:23 AM |
Besides Jessica Rabbit I think I prefer the rest as cell shaded cartoons
July 21, 2009 at 8:35 PM |
This is awesome! Haha! I wonder what my character would look like as a real person. Popeye is scary!
July 21, 2009 at 8:36 PM |
Also I think I met someone who looked just like Johnny Bravo. http://www.lonelyshow.com twitter.com/lonelyshow
July 22, 2009 at 12:19 AM |
That was terribly frightening
July 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM |
Mario looks like one of my uncles
July 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM |
Haha! Some of them look just plain wierd.
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July 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM |
funny.. but scary!
Mr Burns looks strangely real
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July 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM |
es en verdad fabuloso ….
July 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM |
Jessica Rabbit looks amazing. Others are kind of creepy but I loved it overall!
July 23, 2009 at 9:33 AM |
Great work, but some of the stuff creeped me out.
Awesome, though.
July 23, 2009 at 10:03 AM |
Jessica Rabbit is still the hottest cartoon ever.
July 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM |
obviously shopped — you can tell by the shadows
July 23, 2009 at 12:36 PM |
Iloveit,so funny
July 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM |
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July 23, 2009 at 12:38 PM |
Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words!
July 23, 2009 at 2:25 PM |
some of them are good but a lot of them are still way to cartoonish. the southpark boys are the bast representations.
July 23, 2009 at 2:41 PM |
Wow, this is absolutely fantastic. Butthead really does look like Keanu Reeves. hahahha!
July 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM |
Scary~~~~~ O_O
July 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM |
Aaaaaand Jessica Rabbit is still HOT!
August 18, 2009 at 3:39 AM |
agreed
July 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM |
well, these are cool and all, but you seem to have forgotten the fact that cartoons do not look misshapen and off proportion simply because they are that way to begin with, they are extremely exaggerated versions of a live person in someones head, drawn in a simpler form, with dramatized figure. they would look like normal people.
July 25, 2009 at 8:32 AM |
I don’t think that anything was forgotten. I believe the intent was to portray the characters as what they would look like in real life in their exaggerated form. To portray them in their “un-exaggerated” form would be another project.
July 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM |
That was pretty frightening! I think there are some actors who look an awful lot like some of the cartoon characters on TV today.
July 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM |
1) That kid looks just like Alfred E. Neuman- Bill Gaines, eat your heart out! & 2) that other kid looks like a cross between Bart Simpson and Gollum. When’re you gonna publish Part II?
July 23, 2009 at 10:46 PM |
They all scared the bejesus outta me
July 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM |
These are ****ing cool as hell
July 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM |
jOHNNY bRAVO looks like Bruce Willis..
July 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM |
Thats awsome
July 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM |
Hey, this reminds me of Dreamworks character design. Take a cartoony chracter, then make it as creepy as possible by adding stubble, skin pores, and other disgusting details of human anatomy that don’t work for cartoons.
July 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM |
Think I met one of those guys the other day
July 24, 2009 at 3:00 PM |
freain awesome. am i the only one scared by peter and popeye?
July 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM |
SHAGGY &^%$ING PWNED IT ! !!
July 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM |
Wow! I am always amazed to see the different talents that God has given! This is probably one of the funniest things I have “stumbled” upon all week!! Great Job!!
July 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM |
wow, pretty cool but nonetheless quite disturbing.
lets be thankful that will never happen.
July 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM |
Just…freaky, yo.
July 24, 2009 at 8:36 PM |
O_O that was scary… they shud stay 2dimensional
July 24, 2009 at 9:10 PM |
Peter Griffon looks like a bloated Bill Gates…lol
July 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM |
Peter Griffin IS Michael Moore
July 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM |
The South Park one was pretty good. But all the others were still too cartoon to be “Real Life” versions. Funny… But very far off the target goal.
July 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM |
Hilarious1
I absolutely loved Homer!
July 25, 2009 at 1:08 AM |
god look at popeye thats terrifying i dont think hed be wrinkly lol
July 25, 2009 at 1:11 AM |
Gotta love burns!!
July 25, 2009 at 2:57 AM |
Perhaps some character can pull it off and some really pulls my whole body’s hair stands up! eeeeee! Overall, good job!
July 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM |
They are real and I live in the hundred acre woods, at least that is what my seven year old tells me.
July 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM |
Gr8 work
July 25, 2009 at 8:54 AM |
Jessica Rabbit didn’t look too bad as a ‘human’. But the Simpsons ones were terrifying, especially Homer; those massive eyeballs will be staring into mine when I try to sleep…
July 25, 2009 at 9:29 AM |
awesome
July 25, 2009 at 9:52 AM |
My favorite is butthead as it looks exactly like he does in the cartoon except using real components. Aside from that though, anyone know what raw components the artist used in these? I think the reason they resemble Keanu, or George Clooney(American dad guy looks kinda similar) is cause the source images might have been them but distorted. Anyone else think that?
July 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM |
That was cool…and a little creepy. American Dad works for Oklahoma Horizons TV Show.
July 25, 2009 at 1:48 PM |
That’s very funny. However I am concerned about Homer I think he needs to go to the doctirs before his eyes fall out!
Great Work !
July 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM |
thoroughly enjoyed that! nx
July 25, 2009 at 2:15 PM |
Sometimes, when we see things that are wrong, rather than to bad mouth a creature, we cartoon it.
July 25, 2009 at 2:17 PM |
Pretty scary imo
July 25, 2009 at 2:17 PM |
very cool !
July 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM |
that is hilarious! I’m glad they are only cartoons, they look creepy, and not funny in a good way!
oh! Poppey kinda reminds me of Freddy Krueger!!
July 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM |
They look a bit creepy, but awesome!
July 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM |
Stewie and Jessica Rabbit kinda look normal!
July 25, 2009 at 3:36 PM |
Who’s the one on the third picture?
I think she’ll look okay until she fully opens her eyes.
The Simpsons would be so scary and if they’re real, they’d need to wear sunglasses so the dust won’t get into their eyes.
July 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM |
I fail to see the appeal. They still look like cartoon characters, especially Jessica Rabbit for example. And the creators got it wrong in many instances, just translating the shape of the face in the cartoon to reality, when they should’ve taken into account what that shape is meant to represent. Take the American Dad one for example: they just gave him this huge, jaw-like outgrowth on top of the “normalised” face. When really, the cartoon is trying to say that this is a guy with a very strong jaw. They should’ve taken that into account and chosen to make a strong jaw and maybe a Kirk Douglas-ey chin. Not just take the cartoon template and slap some skin over it.
July 29, 2009 at 4:51 PM |
I totally agree. Some of these were really well done (like Popeye–even though he’s hands down the scariest of them all), but I think there could’ve been somewhat more effort to make it look as if they were real people.
July 25, 2009 at 3:52 PM |
that was hilarious. I like pic #2, popeye, bart, and beavis and butthead.
July 25, 2009 at 4:12 PM |
hahahaha Timmy Turner looks soo graceful, and Jessica Rabit would the sexiest woman ever!
Mr. Burns would be really ugly hahaha.
July 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM |
Omg! Popeye DOES look like Freddy Krueger! That’s exactly what I thought!
July 25, 2009 at 7:32 PM |
These are great. thanks for taking the time to create and post.
July 25, 2009 at 8:31 PM |
wowzers. thank lord they are not real people!
July 25, 2009 at 8:40 PM |
LOOOL
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July 25, 2009 at 8:40 PM |
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July 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM |
Cool…
July 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM |
Pretty damn funny, but the real life Beavis and Butthead look completely evil. LOL.
July 25, 2009 at 9:25 PM |
wooow jessica rabbit is so sexy
July 26, 2009 at 4:09 AM |
I think Betty Boop would be a little hotter then that.
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July 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM |
yeah! this is ayranf**king awesome!
July 27, 2009 at 2:06 AM |
It was real fun looking at these cartoon characters as real humans.I must say…it’s better to have these characters as cartoons rather than real humans.
July 27, 2009 at 2:15 AM |
[...] [...]
July 27, 2009 at 2:32 AM |
[...] artistic interpretations of what animated characters would look like if they were real [...]
July 27, 2009 at 3:00 AM |
Beavis looks like Jay Mohr (Last comic standing host) LOL
July 27, 2009 at 5:32 AM |
Fan f*%kingtastic…jointly haunting and and hillarious…I’ve always imagined that in my mind.
July 27, 2009 at 6:24 AM |
THAT CANT BE BART!! he looks like Mr Polo!
July 27, 2009 at 7:10 AM |
LOL… some of these are REALLY scary other’s look like people I have seen on the street. LOL
July 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM |
The South Park drawing was actually on an episode of South Park. It was drawn by them.
July 30, 2009 at 9:04 PM |
Doesn’t Bevis look like Keanu Reeves
August 1, 2009 at 7:53 PM |
eric cartman is my favorite
August 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM |
Ouch!! some are looks amost scarry…. LOL!!!
August 6, 2009 at 5:07 AM |
South Park was by far the best except that the kids looked older than nine?
August 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM |
no, this is what they would be like if they were terrifying mutants
August 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM |
No wonder Charlie Brown is depressed. And Bart Simpson looks demonic. Yikes!
August 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM |
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August 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM |
They should have toned down some of their more fantastical features, to actually play into the reality aspect instead of just clonestamping skin patterns over the shape of a cartoon. Meh.
August 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM |
my favorite was number 3
August 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM |
Popeye looks like a night mare rapper OMG scary,If I saw that in a dark passway. I would faint.
August 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM |
estan de la vergaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM |
OMG! Bart freaks me out!
August 31, 2009 at 2:55 PM |
I love looking through these pics! Thanks for posting them.
September 2, 2009 at 9:29 PM |
Beavis and Butthead rocks!
September 8, 2009 at 3:22 AM |
Excellent stuff. Popeye was my favourite.
September 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM |
nice job, I like it. it so cute.
September 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM |
charlie brown is the best
September 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM |
I always thought that Calvin (calvin and hobbes) might look like my own devil child. spot on!
September 14, 2009 at 9:58 PM |
Stumbled!
OMFG!! Awesome post!
September 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM |
This is one of the funniest and coolest thing i have ever saw!!!!!!
September 26, 2009 at 2:14 PM |
homer is scary…
October 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM |
i want to see ash ketchum from pokrmon
October 10, 2009 at 6:33 PM |
These are awesome
October 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM |
See, the thing is, when I see the phrase “artistic interpretations of what animated characters would look like”, I expect to see realistically proportioned figures, not drawings of the cartoon characters with skin effects stretched over them. Like, the South Park ones were funny, because that’s probably what they WOULD look like if they were real people. But Homer Simpson? Really? I will pay you good money if you can find a real person whose skull is shaped like that and whose eyes are perfect circles FROM THE OUTSIDE. The way he’s rendered isn’t realistic, it’s creepy. It’s called the Uncanny Valley.
October 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM |
Mario looks like an old guy
October 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM |
Absolutely awesome, I really like these 3D guys.
October 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM |
Haha funniest thing ever
and kinda creepy
November 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM |
Wowwww…..This is realllyyyy weird. are those photomanips?
November 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM |
Awesome, Not sure I’d watch that on TV thought. I’d lose my appetite on the simpsons.
November 18, 2009 at 6:29 PM |
Thats awsome..really like it..
November 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM |
Great job!!