Why does Mickey Mouse have three fingers and one thumb on each hand?
In fact, why is virtually every cartoon animal's hand beset with one missing digit? Conversations with many cartoonists, animators and Disney employees confirm what we were at first sceptical about.
Mickey Mouse has four fingers because it is convenient for the artists and animators who have drawn him. In the early cartoons, each frame was hand-drawn by an animator painstaking and tedious work.
No part of the human anatomy is harder to draw than a hand, and it is particularly difficult to draw distinct fingers without making the whole hand look disproportionately large.
The artists who drew Mickey were more than happy to go along with any conceit that saved them some work. So in Disney and most other cartoons, the animals sport a thumb and three fingers, while humans, such as Snow White and Cinderella, are spared the amputation.
And before you ask - no, we don't know for certain which of Mickey's fingers got lopped off for the sake of convenience. Since the three non-thumbs on each hand are symmetrical, we'd like to think it was the pinkie that was sacrificed.
In fact, why is virtually every cartoon animal's hand beset with one missing digit? Conversations with many cartoonists, animators and Disney employees confirm what we were at first sceptical about.
Mickey Mouse has four fingers because it is convenient for the artists and animators who have drawn him. In the early cartoons, each frame was hand-drawn by an animator painstaking and tedious work.
No part of the human anatomy is harder to draw than a hand, and it is particularly difficult to draw distinct fingers without making the whole hand look disproportionately large.
The artists who drew Mickey were more than happy to go along with any conceit that saved them some work. So in Disney and most other cartoons, the animals sport a thumb and three fingers, while humans, such as Snow White and Cinderella, are spared the amputation.
And before you ask - no, we don't know for certain which of Mickey's fingers got lopped off for the sake of convenience. Since the three non-thumbs on each hand are symmetrical, we'd like to think it was the pinkie that was sacrificed.
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