Why cartoon characters wear gloves 

My original thought after reading the title was, "Because drawing hands is seriously difficult."

Well i mean they can't leave fingerprints at the murders they comit

So they won't get infected by the coronavirus

“Why do you wear that thing around your neck?” ROASTED

I went to Disney and asked Mickey that question. He says it makes him look stylish.

"why dont the birds wear any gloves" *Looks at wings*

I always thought "that thing" on Daffy's neck was just his coloring, as ducks can have some rather interesting color markings and I have never seen an all-black duck anyway. Also, I had assumed birds didn't wear gloves because they were technically "wings", not "arms", their feathers being their "fingers" kind of a visual representation. I know they're shaped and structured his actual hands, I just thought that might be the concept behind it, the difference being they were wings, while those with more actual "arms" or "front legs made into arms" would warrant gloves while wings might not. Just a theory, though.

Disney: We gave them gloves to make animating their hands easier VeggieTales: What if they just didn't have hands

I always thought that the cartoon birds didn't wear gloves because the fingers are technically their feathers taking shape of hands and fingers... as opposed to having paws.

Okay, but what we really needa be asking is does Mike Wazowski blink or wink?

Vox: *Shows nearly every iconic character with gloves* Sonic The Hedgehog: *am I nothing to you?*

This was great. Now do one about why old cartoon characters had shiny eyelids.

“Five fingers looked like too much on such a little figure, so we took one away. That was just one less finger to animate” That book just answered my 2nd burning question

Wow, I wasn't prepared to see Bugs without his gloves on.

Love how some of the characters sometimes address it themselves. Breaking the 4th wall full on haha

Why they wear gloves 2019: cuz they’re hard to draw 2020: cuz it’s corona time

Daffy Duck "wears that thing around his neck" because he's really a Catholic priest.

Daffy Duck been wearing chokers before chokers were even a thing

Before I even knew what breaking the fourth wall was, I knew Bobby was totally breaking it cause he showed us he was indeed aware of his own glove-user nature

Every character who wasn't a white human, used gloves.

I think the main reason for using gloves, in cartoons and in vaudeville, was because it made it easier for the audience to see where their hands were and what their hands were doing.

0:37 I swear the sound comes from the top half, not the bottom.

Cartoon characters only wear gloves in American cartoons, so the "hands are hard to draw" argument doesn't work. The "minstrel" argument is much more likely. It was easy to blacken the face, as it doesn't come into contact with objects on stage. Any black paint on the hands, however, will immediately come off. So actors had to wear gloves instead.

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4:40 Daffy Duck wears that "thing" around the neck because he is a mallard duck.

I always thought that Daffy Duck's white thing around his neck was inspired by how mallards have a white stripe around their neck

*Mickey Mouse is a non-human, doing very human things* 2:26 *He looks at the camera* Why am I suddenly afraid and sense danger??? 🤔

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Thanks for shedding light on this. I have never wondered why they wore gloves because you are right we expected it. Drawing intricate fingers is tougher than round gloves and shoes.

Gloves serve two primary purposes. They allow characters with black bodies to have their hands visible when their hands are in front of them, and they draw emphasis to the the expressions of the hands. The emphasis on expression is the same reason why mimes paint their faces white. Simple as that.

Mario and Sonic wears Gloves

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Let's be real people, Daffy Duck brought back the choker.

So they can't find fingerprints when they *TOUCHA YOUR SPAGHET*

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Theory: underneath the gloves are humanly realistic hands

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Theory: The birds don't wear gloves because they don't have "amrs" per se. They have wings. Giving Daffy gloves would make him look like a weird quadruped with a beak.

1:42 *what are you doing step bro?!?!*

4:04 I'll never get used to these animal years...in 1935, Clarabelle Cow gets her glove stuck in a flute...Goofy, in 1939, is 60 years later?!?

Birds don’t wear gloves cause their arms are actually wings and their fingers are actually feathers, it would be hard to fly with gloves on your wings

Why do Mickey's ears always face the viewer?

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The minstrel shows and mimes of the time used them to draw attention to what needs to be highlighted. Their hands help tell the story and draw the eye where to look.

Goofy without gloves was weird as hell o.o

how about why they only have 4 fingers instead of 5.??

Theory: After the Spanish Flu, people became more germophobic and it became normal for people to wear gloves.

These techniques also included using round edges instead of angles because they were more efficient to draw repeatedly. Unfortunately, rounded hands were difficult for audiences to see against their bodies in black-and-white film-especially when the characters were using them. That's where white gloves came in.

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A. So they won't get their hands dirty. B. Hands are hard to draw. C. So they won't leave a fingerprint after murdered someone. D. All of the above.

this is one of the most well-resourced things i've ever seen in my life. and it was aout frickin cartoons.

I figured that it meant you could easily animate the gloves on a separate cell layer without having to redraw the arms and reducing the precision necessary for them to match up.

Be careful, Bobby asked why they wore gloves ONCE and we never saw him again

Why Goofy is a human dog and Pluto just a regular dog?

An Extremely Goofy Movie is a family favorite over here!! I was JUST reminiscing about the movie to a friend after hearing "Right Back From Where We Started From" (It's used during one of the best dancing montages ever!) playing at the supermarket. It really took me back to some VERY happy days 🥰🥰🥰

I struggled for 6 days with depicting a hand in Illustrator. The client had an low-res gif of the logo and needed a clean eps. The colors and body were easy enough to get perfect, but the HAND. I really had to do research into that to get it right and make it look natural.

I just scrolled down the comment section for nearly 30 damn minutes looking for someone else that caught this... does nobody else notice that when she's talking about The Band Concert she says "it's from 1935" then she says "60 years later, Goofy takes off his gloves before getting in a pool..." and the year the film that goofy was taking off his gloves in was only from was 1939?

Micky mouse is a mouse doing very human things me: *sweating intensely*

Very insightful, thank you.

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Cause the bird hands are wings!!!

Now explain the four fingers

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Cause there hands are cold

I imagine goofy's bare hand feels weird as heck to touch...

i too adked myself this question thank you for making a video of this

I love how they Vox addressed the minstrel show aspect of animated characters with gloves.

0:17 Do You Always Know Why We're Like.. Wearing Gloves?

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I always heard it's because animating it in the old days was way easier when you could see the whote hand on the black background.

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Many animated birds don't use gloves because, well... they are birds, those are not even paws, those are wings and feathers being used as hands. And that thing around Daffy Duck's neck are white feathers present in the males of some species of mallards (wild ducks, those that are hunted on season).

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Early cartoon characters are, in fact, racist minstrels. Mind. Blown.

I wonder where Donny tiny hands buys his gloves 😂😂

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4:34 Sequel to this video: Why does Daffy Duck wear that thing around his neck?

i never even realized they all wore gloves, my mind just automatically accepted that those were their hands 💀

It's pretty obvious that bird characters don't wear gloves because their arms are supposed to be their wings.

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I love this kind of stuff

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When I draw people, I always have their hands behind their backs because I always fail at doing hands... 😂

They learned from O.J.

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I always thought the gloves were their hands smh

Really interesting. I'm trying to learn about animation history to help draw my flipbooks better and this is a fascinating little fact.

So helpful thanks

For no reason just save 5 min. So Why ?: because it's easier to draw the rounded curved gloved hands than hands with too many details like knuckles, it adds color contrast to see their hands more easily , it humanizes the character more since they're animals doing human things and also because of the time of vaudeville and minstrel black face performances were popular at the time too and they also wore gloves for more visibility

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I never thought bout this.. never really noticed. Very interesting

Oh, you showed the little laconic mynah bird. I loved that character. Sort of the bird version of Droopy.

After hand surgery three years ago on both hands, I wear gloves because it helps control the sensitivity when I am driving. It rather hurts my hands to drive. When the weather is warm, I still wear gloves for the added padding. It seems police officers do not like me to be wearing gloves when I drive during warm times. The few times I was stopped, after I started driving again, the police officers always ask me why I am wearing gloves. I take off the gloves and show the surgical scars. They then make up some reason why they stopped me and just let me off on a warning. I genuinely believe they stopped me because I was wearing gloves during warm weather and maybe they believed the vehicle stolen. Maybe cartoon characters wear gloves because they had hand surgery.