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Any other studio given a “car” theme for an animated feature might have created a cartoon. Not Pixar. To the animators, the Cars stars aren’t cartoon characters. “John [Lasseter] wanted a story in which the cars are humans,” says Scott Clark, supervising animator. “The doors don't open; you don’t look inside their heads. They become humans; a human drama unfolds in front of you.” At the same time, Lasseter had another requirement, one born of the 3D medium in which they’d be working. “John’s edict was ‘truth to material,’” Clark says. “