Raygun Gothic is a catchall term for a visual style that incorporates various aspects of the Googie, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco architectural styles when applied to retro-futuristicscience fiction environments. Academic Lance Olsen has characterised Raygun Gothic as "a tomorrow that never was".
The style has also been associated with architectural indulgence, and situated in the context of the golden age of modern design due to its use of features such as "single-support beams, acute angles, brightly colored paneling" as well as "shapes and cutouts showing motion".
The success of the short attracted Disney's attention, and they approached Pixar about the possibility of making movies entirely out of computer animation ...Instead, he was a dark-red RaygunGothic retro 1930s throwback, more Flash Gordon than G.I. Joe.
