Once you notice how many cartoon characters have four fingers, it‘s hard to ignore. The artistic choice originated with Disney and other early animation studios in the 1920s, and since then it ...

One strange quirk about animation is that cartoon characters more often than not only have four fingers. Mickey Mouse, Homer Simpson, SpongeBob SquarePants, Looney Tunes, the Flintstones ...

dropping one finger makes a huge difference.” There’s also an important design reason for the look. Unlike those of human characters, the hands and bodies of cartoon animals like Mickey Mouse ...

Look carefully at your favorite cartoon ... characters, you may notice one thing they have in common. Homer Simpson, Spongebob Squarepants, Fred Flintstone, Bluey and Bingo. They all have four ...

Why do cartoon characters only have a thumb and three fingers? Recommended 23 secretly brilliant performances in bad movies, from Florence Pugh to Adam Driver The 15 best food scenes in film ...

Why do cartoon characters only have a thumb and three fingers? “Everybody shortens it to three fingers and a thumb... just simply for an economy of line. When you're having to animate 24 ...

they all have three fingers, instead of four. Emmy-award-winning animators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh offered some insight into this peculiar trait back in 2017, while discussing how they ...