3:25: The "Planned Animation/Character Movement" thing is a good choice, because it's like sprite animation: you find a particular movement that suits the character nicely.
Without Hanna-Barbera's techniques, Flash and cut-out animation would never have been born. It's considered, at least to my animation history teacher, as the pioneer and the grandfather of modern cut-out animation :)
As always Hanna Barbera will be my favorite of any of the TV animation giants. The studio was still going strong during the 80's. That was my first time seeing those characters. Now yes they weren't the original 60's cartoons but more of a newer series of them brought to the new age of animation but that is what brought me here to this video is having a fond memory of the classic characters of HB. Great video and I too had the same notion of why they wore neckties or had collars on their clothes. Isn't hard to believe that us who grew up during early to late 80's and into the 90's that we would LOVE this type of animation, Planned or Limited.
The studio sent all it's animation work overseas so Hanna-Barbera was no longer a working studio in the U.S. in the 1980s. They betrayed their workers in order to save money.
Great video! It's also often been said that's why characters like Fred Flintstone had the "5 O'Clock Shadows." It enabled animators to break down the character even more & just animate/draw the mouth within a "frame" in some moments the same ways they would the eyes or the head with the collar. I know some of the animal characters probably would have lines around the mouth/snout, as that's common in character designs, but it was also very likely done for this purpose. Cool, huh?!
The reason for the 5 o'clock shadow also is the difficulty of keeping the color and brightness the same when part of the face is on different layers of cels. Solution: design the character with purposely different shades on the face. Double cool.
I don’t see why the mouth would need a frame if the mouth never overlaps anything... Or why it would need a separate color/shade; the skin color doesn’t need to be colored in. Just let it be colored by the background.
Something similar was done with Chicken Run. By disguising the neck seam with an article of clothing not only do the characters look stylish but it saves time on editing and animation.
That’s actually common in the more human Muppets too, particularly Miss Piggy. She’s always wearing a pearl necklace because it’s easier to hide the seams.
I would describe it as an obvious solution in a way. Cel animation was the beginning of that train of thought as it was using a similar concept of drastically reducing the amount of original drawings required in each frame by keeping backgrounds static and panning left or right to simulate movement and re-using background art at times. I reckon that World War 2 delayed the advancement, Disney was championing cel animation in the 30s prior to the war, so it was only a matter of time.
Interesting. A modular resource system, the sort beloved of IC designers, and pretty much any industrial system, like cars, boats, planes, trains, ships, buildings .... When you have such modules, the interfaces become key. Fascinating to see the concept applied to creative arts as well.
Bow Ties or Neckties?
Bow Neck
3:25: The "Planned Animation/Character Movement" thing is a good choice, because it's like sprite animation: you find a particular movement that suits the character nicely.
Scarfs
Garottes.
Bow ties
Without Hanna-Barbera's techniques, Flash and cut-out animation would never have been born. It's considered, at least to my animation history teacher, as the pioneer and the grandfather of modern cut-out animation :)
As always Hanna Barbera will be my favorite of any of the TV animation giants. The studio was still going strong during the 80's. That was my first time seeing those characters. Now yes they weren't the original 60's cartoons but more of a newer series of them brought to the new age of animation but that is what brought me here to this video is having a fond memory of the classic characters of HB. Great video and I too had the same notion of why they wore neckties or had collars on their clothes. Isn't hard to believe that us who grew up during early to late 80's and into the 90's that we would LOVE this type of animation, Planned or Limited.
The studio sent all it's animation work overseas so Hanna-Barbera was no longer a working studio in the U.S. in the 1980s. They betrayed their workers in order to save money.
Great video! It's also often been said that's why characters like Fred Flintstone had the "5 O'Clock Shadows." It enabled animators to break down the character even more & just animate/draw the mouth within a "frame" in some moments the same ways they would the eyes or the head with the collar. I know some of the animal characters probably would have lines around the mouth/snout, as that's common in character designs, but it was also very likely done for this purpose. Cool, huh?!
The reason for the 5 o'clock shadow also is the difficulty of keeping the color and brightness the same when part of the face is on different layers of cels. Solution: design the character with purposely different shades on the face. Double cool.
I don’t see why the mouth would need a frame if the mouth never overlaps anything...
Or why it would need a separate color/shade; the skin color doesn’t need to be colored in. Just let it be colored by the background.
Something similar was done with Chicken Run. By disguising the neck seam with an article of clothing not only do the characters look stylish but it saves time on editing and animation.
The only 1957-1965 Hanna barbera animal character that didn’t wear at least one piece of clothing is Yakky Doodle
Sidenote: In Chicken Run the same "neck tie" technique was used to seamlessly separate the plasticine faces of the puppets from their silicon bodies.
That’s actually common in the more human Muppets too, particularly Miss Piggy. She’s always wearing a pearl necklace because it’s easier to hide the seams.
I would describe it as an obvious solution in a way. Cel animation was the beginning of that train of thought as it was using a similar concept of drastically reducing the amount of original drawings required in each frame by keeping backgrounds static and panning left or right to simulate movement and re-using background art at times. I reckon that World War 2 delayed the advancement, Disney was championing cel animation in the 30s prior to the war, so it was only a matter of time.
0:11 they're all animals, therefore we can conclude Hanna Barbera is furry
lol
William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera. The Original Furries.
"Short 20-minute cartoons"? Some cartoons ran that length, but most theatrical cartoons were one-reelers running less than 10 minutes.
Disheartening to see such great content with so little views
Because it's not Beyonce or something.
Interesting. A modular resource system, the sort beloved of IC designers, and pretty much any industrial system, like cars, boats, planes, trains, ships, buildings .... When you have such modules, the interfaces become key. Fascinating to see the concept applied to creative arts as well.
Great video. Your channel seems really professional. Keep at it and you will be big soon!
But also in the 50's and 60's most jobs required men to wear neckties. It was part of the work dress code. So neckties were totally accepted.
Reminds me of learning the question of why cartoons wear gloves.
"Good Grief! The comedian's a bear!"
"No he's not. He's wearing a neck'a tie."
-- Fozzie Bear
I'm actually using this technique in a webcomic to limit the amount of drawing I have to do
All four of these characters were voiced by Daws Butler
I want to see how many characters that wears hats
I go to Yogi Bear once in a while
Thanks!
Whats the music in the intro ??
Nice catch!
Awesome Video!
Love your content!
Makes sense 🤔
They wore neckties because they were invented in the 40s and 50s where everyone wore ties lol
Great video
Fread flintstone, yogi bear and scooby doo are all 7 feet tall apparently
It's Fred flintstone.
I thought they all were ties because of the mob
I like it.
Nice video
My theory was that drawing necks took too much time.
Pffft, they prefer to be called Televisions of Colour.
Lmao
#tiethosetiestogether
You forgot fleegle
“an animation theory” seems quite similar to another youtuber 😐
Yogi bear scooby doo
Is it difficult for a cartoon to have a neck? Lol