“Flight Intestines” Imagines What The Melting Innards Of A Jet Look Like

I was sick over the weekend, and had this one insane fever dream about Malaysia Flight 370 where the plane became an animated, Disney-esque creature and began creeping towards the sun before melting, Icarus-style. This yielded the flight’s mysterious disappearance. This morning, I noticed a new digital animation series by Christopher Labrooy that captured my nightmare of the melting aircraft perfectly.

“Flight Intestines” is an awesome surrealist rendering of a Boeing 747 (Flight 370 was a Boeing 777-200ER, for the record) whose tip is dripping into a gooey swirl as if it were a soft serve machine vomiting some yellow-ish ice cream. Labrooy made the personal project entirely in 3D using Cinema4D and V-Ray.

Labrooy told The Creators Project in an email that he made the 3D-model of the plane a long time ago, so it gave him a “good headstart for the project so that I could concentrate on the fun surreal stuff.”

This isn’t the first time Labrooy has used his digital toolbelt to morph heavy-set transportation vehicles into something bizarre and hilarious. Whether its his Auto Aerobics or his manipulations of RVs, Labrooy says he has a fascination with “subverting the everyday material culture that surrounds us into something new. The computer allows me to think really big.” We can’t wait to see what he’ll do with a spaceship or skyscraper. Time will tell. 

See more of Labrooy’s awesome 3D-graphics over at his website. 

@zachsokol