Ahh ok so I know this is an artblog and I never reblog anything, but I had to chime in!
So the whole white glove thing comes from early black & white animation, most notably the Mickey Mouse shorts, but also the Looney Tunes and the Max Fleischer toons. The gloves serve two purposes:
One; the gloves are big and makes those over-the-top hand gestures more prominent. It allows the characters to be more expressive, which is necessary for some of the mute cartoons.
Secondly, these characters tend to be completely black, like Felix the Cat (who was one of the inspirations for Mickey). The black color is easier to animate, but you end up with a problem: if their hands were over their bodies or a dark background, you wouldn’t see them! In Mickey’s first appearance in Steamboat Willie, Mickey and Pete don’t have their gloves, and everything kind of bleeds together.
Adding the gloves in the later shorts, you can see the distinction between his body and hands. Problem solved!
Even after technicolor cartoons arrived, the gloves stuck.
Apparently, Bugs Bunny didn’t wear gloves for a bit after the color cartoons came, but audiences asked why he stopped wearing them so the animators changed it back.
OH MY GOD THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU SOLVED ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF MY LIFE.
I don’t know how many of you who watch Raven’s Home are still around, but if you are here, hi, here’s a rant about the Garrett (Chelsea’s ex’s) episode.
Well because it’s a kids’ show (yes I’m officially putting it in the children’s show category lol;((), I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew it was gonna be goofy and not all that serious but I still wanted Chelsea to put him in his place. Like come on he lied to her, he cheated on her, manipulated her, abused her mentally, he took all her money and her invention and left her and their child with nothing, comes back and disappoints Levi YET AGAIN and then they hug it all out??? noo it doesn’t work for me. They forgave him as if nothing ever happened. But at least he’s gonna repay her for everything he stole, moneywise.
This show never gets serious and that’s what I get annoyed by the most. But at the end of the day, it is a children’s show and I can’t expect more. Remember in TSR for example when Devon was gonna leave Raven and move to another city? It never gets on that level which is sad. It’s too childish to me.
Other that, the kids’ storyline is just boring. I’m glad Raven was supportive of Chelsea. It was an okay episode, really in the middle somewhere. BTW why didn’t Raven have a vision of the court?? They could’ve spiced up the episode with Rae misinterpreting her vision or something. It wouldn’t have been that flat of an episode if she would’ve gotten a vision imo. Opinions?
