Has anyone noticed that Remy’s eyes sometimes… “bulge out”? 
In the movie:
In “Your Friend the Rat”:
It’s funny, though 
It’s called “cartoonization”, in my language… 
I absolutely love how Pixar included such aspects into their characters as this so as to make the film seem more like a traditionally animated feature than many of its computer-rendered counterparts – it adds a little extra “umph” to the production as a whole, if you catch my meaning. Heheh.
– Mitch
… cartoonization? You can probably just call it “cartoon-ing”.
Aggie - Yeah, but “cartoonization” sounds cooler.
– Mitch
sigh Can’t argue with that, I suppose… hehe.
It kind of makes him look like a squeeze toy! It’d be awesome for merchandise!
Aggie - Eheh. Yeah, please pardon my humor. (snigger)
Yes, exactly! Can you imagine how well those would sell? No one has the brains to advertise something such as that…
– Mitch
There we go! That’s it! We’ll produce and sell Remy squeeze toys to the mass market. We’ll all make millions… 
Yes, I’ve noticed that many times before, but you know, rats can do some really interesting things like that, so it is possible. Brad Bird mentions this in one of his podcasts.
It’s not really “cartoonization”, imho. The most “cartoonization” Pixar’s ever included in any of their movies is Lightning McQueen’s second cactus fall.
That YFtR shot is priceless. 
Expressing stretch-and-squash with CGI animation must be exercised with caution. If one chooses to work with CGI, it’s probably because they’re aiming for realism. Abuse “cartoonization” and you lose the affect.
Scroll down the November 2005 Spline Doctors archive for the blog entry titled “Water Balloon Head”. The pros know what’s goin’ down.
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Mitch: I call it cartoonization as well. And personally, I love it. It’s nice to see that animation is returning to their roots, with the old style way of doing things yet they’re not pushing the limit. For example, they’re not showing the eyeballs stretch and shoot out, lol. It’s one of the small things in that film that I adore.
Yeah, I agree with what has been said- Pixar knows that they’re not trying to make a realistic film- even the basic concept is unrealistic- so it really is returning to traditional animation roots by using that ‘squash and stretch’’ technique. It adds that little something.
I agree with you guys. Pixar inserted an extra dose of “squash and stretch” into their ratatouille so as to make it emit a traditional flavor, yet they don’t overdo it to the point that it appears unnatural.
PV - Thank you for the link! I made to browse down to the article you mentioned and ended up reading almost every post by the Spline Doctors.
FONY - Haha. I’m glad I’m not the only yellow pea in the pod. Long live “cartoonization”.
– Mitch
those pics are so friggin awesome!