Yeet Being able to properly draw hands with good proportions and joint movements is actually extremely hard.

+HammerMC I think you're right. I think it's also difficult to draw wrists that look right, because if the join between the arm and the hand does not look right, then people will notice. Putting gloves on the character gives the animator some leeway: if it doesn't look perfect, we interpret it as simply being the shape of the glove.

tradition1 That's part of why those loose shapes were introduced in the first place. It's like how the narrator in the video described the idea behind the more noodle esque figures in characters.

Yes, that was my first thought

Now you see why four fingers came into vogue!

KawaiiKitty_Peachie _ dude leave him alone youtube is a free site

Beat to the knife I-I mean punch yeah punch...

@KawaiiKitty_Peachie _ r/cursedcomments

@@ohmyglob7222 ok. But still this isnt reddit. The whole "r/woooooosh" is annoying. Just say it was a joke no need to say "r/woooooooosh" because it makes things more complicated

Jerman

Lol, you beat to it.

Ok

So accurate!

@@liam-man7265 Ok

lolololol

Maybe his neck gets cold because he lost feathers on his neck.

@Drew Taylor what’s the backstory

@Drew Taylor oh wow that's cool, and sad at the same time

@Drew Taylor Whoa, I remember the 2012 Loony Toons Show being pretty good, but I didn’t realize just how heartfelt the stories could be. I should probably rewatch it sometime, it’s super underrated.

prospectus or do they???????

vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/toontown/images/b/b0/Fisherman_punchy.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/200?cb=20110319013250 Wings isn't an excuse.

I thought that link was some crazy hard hitting evidence, but turned out to look like a meme haha

CurlsOfDbrave not in that way! Bc their wings r shaped like hands. So why not put some gloves on!? IDK

The Toontastic Toon Almost forgot about toonTown

Lol

Im surprised you could hear "Mickey" through all that material

Well he is the mascot of Disney? I would ask him.

@@optimisticwhovian1726 Actually, none of the costumed characters at Disney are allowed to "talk", they simply learn how to act in the costume and pantomime with an uncostumed Disney cast member helping interpret. This isn't a thing for human characters like, say, Mary Poppins or Aladdin.

Yes I do know that....it was a joke......@@ThePhantomSafetyPin

You're correct about Daffy's neck. I think that might have been the punchline of that scene.

@@dinohall2595 Nah, he's a priest.

It's probably because Daffy's design is based of a Malard which is a species of duck that has a ring around their neck.

Hands for the characters they wanted would be simple anyway, so it's just the color contrast and efficiency they wanted. As well as hand movements being surprisingly easy to animate

You must be a struggling artist then. Because I did not think of it. I thought.. later

_-ArrowWolf-_ hands are ez to draw

@@angelzx7961 what?!

I TabbyCatz I yea hands are easy to draw

THE WORLD WAS NOT READY! lol

ikr

I also wasn't prepared for goofy as well.

I never noticed the gloves on bugs bunny. I may be part of some kind of minority.

I saw the episode

It's cartoon characters and more toward Disney...but I think Nintendo just hopped on the trend

@@steelpump100 Actually, it's been shown that the first Japanese manga and anime of the past were originally inspired by American cartoons, so Disney basically helped inspire manga, which in turn influenced game companies.

@@steelpump100 Did... _did you just call Sonic a Nintendo character?_ o_0 And for the record, Sonic's classic design (before they remodeled him for 3D games around 1998 or so) is *clearly rubber hose inspired* (like 1:20). ...Unless you were referring to the fact that *Mario* wears gloves too...

@@ChaosRayZero Mario is way more popular than sonic, so yes. I never mentioned sonic at all, i was simply talking about how Nintendo hopped on the trend of gloves when Disney did it. Never mentioned sonic

@@steelpump100 Sorry for the confusion, I was operating on the logic that your comment was a direct response to the one you replied to. *The original comment mentioned Sonic* wearing gloves, and then you said "Nintendo just hopped on the trend," and it sounded like that was supposed to be an explanation. I misunderstood. My bad! 😅

Pre internet trends

@@ascorbicpng light reflecting off eyelids?

people still do it currently lol

To give them pop. Just aesthetically pleasing. At least that’s one of the reasons

Because eyeshadow at the time was applied with grease and cartoons are done up like actors. It wouldn't have seemed odd to audiences at the time.

So true

honestly haven't seen any conservatives try to make it about themselves...

Wrong

You mean Liberals not Conservatives.

By bringing race into an animation. You lose again Pierre, you lose again.

Nintendo: why not remove them all

I ruined the 555 likes 😈😈

Fun fact: The Blue Meanies from the animated Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” are deliberately drawn with SIX fingers on each hand as sort of a jab at this convention. Instead of taking away one finger, let’s add TWO more!

And here, we were lied by parents when we were little that we can't draw full fingers on drawing, or they will come to life. 'That's why cartoon got 4 fingers' 😭

@Xavier Phillips Why?

Im ur 90 like

Put gloves is basically drawing a white hand...it doesn't make it easier...it's more of a style and so you can see the hands when the hand is in front of their black bodies.

SnoopyDoo I'm that episode it's shown that it's a gift from his grandmother, it was a pearl choker

daffy feelin chilly from all that ice around his neck

i don't think so

+Ronni Turnip that is what i always thought it was.

That was actually what I thought when I was younger XD

I always thought they were meant to represent the natural markings of a male mallard, although he's not quite a mallard either... They may have been a bit unspecific about exact duck specie, but I still think its based on the mallards markings

trend setter

a true icon

I'm pretty sure chokers were a thing before goth kids started wearing them, if that's what you're suggesting. They've just gone in and out of style over the years.

Chokers were used to tell prostitutes from common women in the 18th century

gixG17 your from 2018 right do you notice the ia ketle like' cuphead grandfather

I thought bc it would block them from flying😂

That's right, it's because birds don't have hands

But Donald doesnt wear gloves

@Nothing in Particular what? No. Maybe in the older ones but Not in the new ones

They do leave a lot of answers open to interpretation also...

I like their series on Netflix. Explained

@@seanceknowles2911 what’s its about?

@@seanceknowles2911 ok I will

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ung loco I think he blinks. He can't wink.

I guess to wink he'd need to have an eye twitch.

ung loco To wink he just closes half of his eyelid

ung loco blinking is closing 100% of your eyes and winking is closing 50% of your eyes so mile wasowski blinks

GivenName Surname then what is it when a monster with four eyes only closes one?

you are right the top is the earpiece

Yeah u speak into the bottom half I thought 🤔

Maybe it's upside down 😂😂

@@bbei4216 normally not because the wire is on the bottom half

RIGHT! Lol

Pikapetey Animations L

oh hai, its pika

Pikapetey Animations How did they make Mickey racist if that is a part of its history?

The linked early animation back to blackface, which is still an active area of controversy today.

Is this parody? I've genuinely lost the ability to tell anymore... :( (If it wasn't, I don't think it was an attempt to besmirch Mickey as a racist as to highlight one of the possible causes of gloves as the blackface performers in vaudeville, since both comics and cartoons can trace their roots back to vaudeville, though of course it extends further back than that. I can understand why someone would think that way, but given that they didn't actually use any words like good or bad or racism or bigotry, I think they were just trying to include all possible explanations for the gloves. I hope this doesn't tear us apart fam lol. It's really great seeing you in the comments sections in unexpected places every so often. Please don't hate me...)

i also assumed it had to do with because a person dressed in black face is impersonating a black person and therefore would have black hands, so a white person would have to cover up their white hands. just a theory though, i didn't look it up.

I think that's a big reason along with making the hands 'generic' across all creatures. That is, they can do things like human hands without looking too much like human hands.

stevo728822 Your conclusion sounds so much more reasonable.

What an odd comment, lol.

They said that RIGHT IN THE VIDEO that just so happened to be to tell you why they wore gloves. So either you didn't watch the video or you just want to seem like a know it all.

El Blanco the guy kinda sounded like him lol

Thank Christ!

El Blanco Also let's not talk about that here ^^

yeah lets me be distracted and brain washed by pointless media

El Blanco ikr, this is the Vox that's I subscribed for

Because HE IS A CLOWN

I read this as they said it.

I am not throwing away my S H o T

I mean alot of pedophiles do things associated with Disney (like having a Mickey mouse tatt)

Nooooo Mickey is the king don’t be afraid 😭😞

Lucian c

SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPHAGET ! Who was it ? The world might never know

mad laughs

Best meme.

@@forkspoonington9208 it will be missed

mario's a plumber, probably doesn't wanna get shitwater all over his bare hands

haha

El Mustufa Shigeru Miyamoto has started that he gets inspired a lot by Disney. So that's probably why.

El Mustufa and yet Link does not.

Noah Peter he's also a plumber

Sounds plausible.

as an animator, it would make sense to draw gloves. Saves so much time.

@@benstern310 it's deffo the minstrel one, animation in america started off depicting black people

@@daftbanna7202 well as an animator from the UK was more for time saving and to stop the hands blending into the body. Sonic has this as well.

the conclusion that "since it only happened in america the argument doesn't work" doesn't follow. It's like saying "spoons can't exist to make eating small food like rice easier, given asians use chopsticks, so there must be another reason", no, there really mustn't. While there exists plausibility to minstrel shows giving inspiration, the fact that it ** easier and clearer to draw gloves for characters without clear edge lines is far more likely to be what standardized the practice beyond "I want to keep making caricatures of black people".

Alice In Salt Land daffy started the trend

He was the trend setter

Need me a freak like Daffy Duck.

I chokED

Captain Doomsday hot

CraveQube beacuse it's not a 3d animation.

CraveQube Walt I believe wanted his ears visable at all times

CraveQube To make him more recognizable. When you look at a comic you can in an instant see which character your looking at and so is the case with Mickey Mouse as well.

it was more complecated to animate

Because Disney is always listening to us.

So a platypus

Why does he have that thing around his neck?

@@TheInkPitOx that's just a ring of white feathers. Lots ducks have it

Woody woodpecker wears gloves

Donald is a duck and duck is a bird

Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed

Stoneth Thank you

Tristen Perez ojjjjjjjjjjjjiklqqlll1llll

Disney characters are in white face

Most of them but not all of them.

And thats how furrys were made

Finally someone who agre-

@@wut7374 you're comment is very underrated 😂😂😂

@@damarymoreno3124 "you are comment is very underrated"

wooosh!

Thank you!

Woody Woodpecker wears gloves.

Emporer Swegmester their

or protect themselves from germs

Emporer Swegmester *Their

Emporer Swegmester cause they have snakes under there! 😱

Killers reference?

Хлоя Марш You're kidding yourself if you think that's some kind of random stretch that Vox just invented. It's very obvious watching all of the early animations that didn't blow up to become Mickey Mouse or Felix the Cat

Хлоя Марш it's common history that's known as fact

the real question here is what cartoons gloves have to do with Muslim oppression.

Хлоя Марш i would argue that they weren't trying to link it to racism, it just was. America was built on the graves of the colonised by slaves after all. Not all of us have the luxury of pretending institutional racism doesn't exist x

Sia Janjua affirmative action is the only institutional racism

NOOOOOOOOOOO

cursed

Popeye: *kyukyukyukyuk*

xala r so are Donald Duck's

he got his feathers clipped

Also Daffy

Exactly. A bird wearing gloves would seem strange because real birds don't have fingers (neither do cows for that matter, but Disney seems to have dropped the anthropomorphic cow idea). Donald duck has white feathers; he doesn't wear gloves either.

Donald Duck doesn't wear gloves.

I think the book about Walt Disney's autobiography or whatever was gonna say something about the number of fingers if you're interested. It's probably to make them human-like, but not actually human.

i could wrong but to save money? Time?

tchevrier that is also because of racism

3 fingers and a thumb

Since white people that aren't jews only have 4 fingers.

....jimmy dore :)

costic85 I wish Jimmy spit on his face. Then again he would probably like a golden shower instead.

Mo Killem bigger hands than obama

nobody look nobody look.

You're projecting.

Feathers ikr

hell is more weird i think like 100% sure

how?

Feathers ikr

Lol ikr

Whaaat??

Bobby who

X-Files theme music inserts.

@@invincisibility1306 Bobby is a character from The Goofy Movie (1995) and An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) and in the sequel Bobby asks why they always wear gloves and he hasn't been seen in a Disney production since

@@birb.lma0 hmmm i wooonder why

Wait where did mickey go?

*goofy hides hands*

yes

C. ...In case dey moiduh somebuddy.

If it's 1930, then B is correct. If it's 1999, then C is correct.

gabriel martinez I saw that yup.

Perhaps she meant "6 years later" and made a typo? Just sayin. (and yes, I know, 6 years after 1935 is 1941.)

Maybe it should have been 60 MONTHS?

Yeah, it's wrecking my head!

Maybe the film's year was written wrong...? But probably not cause it doesn't really look like 90s Disney animation but just a guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, Goofy and Pluto arent the same because it's a cartoon and someone wanted it that way.

I hope that i cleared that 4 ya.

If you have any more questions, be sure to just ask me.

I'll be more than happy to answer, unsless i won't be happy to do it, then i won't be happy to answer.

But you can ask me anything.

i dont understand why they didnt make it black...the hand itself was only going to be out for a second.

And mickey invented the booty shorts

Ya mean weird as HUCK

Tony Juarez omg you're right.

Tummywubs dd

Lol same

Make boxes (or cylinders) for fingers, then connect the edges.

You gotta face those challenges head on, draw a bunch of hands, be sure to draw the wrist and even a bit of the arm as well, to be sure you know how to connect them to the body, look at reference, you dont have to copy it, its more like a ruler, you can use it to make things accurate, or you can use it to check your accuracy and fix things, so grab a bunch of ref from all angles and positions and study up. You may feel like your bad but its nice knowing you can, and you can, drawing is just putting the right lines in the right place, you just have to know what lines in what places, the rest is up to muscle memory.

Sammeeee

same

SegaDisneyUniverse Walt was a bigot

And nothing scarier than the animal human

The man was smart..as humans,we can be controlled..like an animal...👍👏🏻

And thats how furry's were made.

Wrong, it talks about how Mickey Mouse is racist.

Matt Smith It most definitely doesn't.

don't worry. The comment section will fix that dilemma.

just about the false race narrative.

I wish it were false lol

I had no idea

They're not. You're just watching a Vox video so everything is racism. lol I have a degree in animation, I literally sat through history of animation for entire semesters. 10 years ago, this concept would have been nonsense. But it's just popular to inject racism into everything these days.

@@SeraphsWitness Thanks for this. Does it have something to do with contrast and how colours appear on-screen?

It's at 2:38 below the highlighted text.

Oh, thanks observant human

MrFlippy Music That answered another age-old question.

The four fingers instead of five fingers on cartoon hands originated from 1920s and 1930s animators not having to take too much time drawing the hands. Drawing hands required as much attention and detail as drawing faces. So, drawing four fingers saved a little time in doing an animated character.

Technically it's 3 fingers and a thumb and it was just easier to articulate the hands in motion with only 3 fingers. (without losing the human appearance or making them seem too human) Genius...

because they pay youtube look at the trending tab it's all big companies with trash views

savage

Because they make interesting journalistic content while also fostering an audience. Go back to watching PewDiePie if you're looking for mindless drivel.

Oceanrust4 Actually, that's not true, as much as it makes sense. Source: a UKposts channel consultant named Mathew Patrick, aka Game Theory.

$$$$$

me too :’)

pyrrhichos If a 12 year old doesn't know what a VHS tape is then they're seriously retarded because they still used those until like 2005.

pyrrhichos I'm 13 and I know alot from the past.. meaning: I know what a VHS is...i actually used to have some...my friends don't really know what that is and I'm like: Really?

"'What on earth is a VHS?' - 12 year olds I'm done" - 13 year olds

BRUH people think we don't know anything from 20 years ago. Everyone in my class knows what a VHS is, most of us have one!

Well as of 2016 they stopped manufacturing VCRs

It also, like Fred Flintstone's tie, provides a cut-off point so that different head-angles can be placed without worrying about matching.

tom dL I remember Daffy actually taking the white band off one time so... it's a joke

no its because he wants to because hes loony, just let our childhoods be.... who hurt you.

tom dL noo. daffy duck is just stylish and knows how to rock a choker

tom dL Woody Woodpecker wears gloves.

2 fingers are just sharing one finger in the glove...reason for lack of one finger.

Crazy Smiles Too much vitamin A i guess? :P

wrong tan or allergic reaction to solarium

Hey, did you know that JUST A THEORY guy gave the Pope a copy of Undertale? True story. Like the pontiff is going to play that crap.

Basically he's orange because he's good friends with a guy who owns a tanning company.

The same reason as Mickey's gloves: so that he stood out better against the white background.

they said only characters that acted like HUMANS wear gloves

Mentioning old stuff isn't extraordinary in times that are way far in the future.

Bake me a cake, plz!

Da666ManIsBak No, you're the woman here

It literally says "man" in the username

We do what we must because we can.

Natascia Riccieri Made me lol out loud for real. I had no idea the direct to video sequel to a goofy movie was actually good.

,

He broke 4th wall. And he was never seen again

Wonder*

Krystal, you laughed out loud... out loud?

Donald Duck doesn't wear gloves.

austin m You just played yourself

that explains nothing.

J4hk2 but mice normally wear gloves?

+Brandon Baker Wearing gloves doesn't work if their arms are supposed to be their wings, not only is the mental image of a bird sticking a pair of gloves at the end of their wings kind of weird but if the animators wanted their bird characters to use their wings as actual wings they would suddenly need to get rid of the gloves they are wearing.

Ah, thats right....

Same