This Is Why Most Disney Characters Wear Gloves

為什么迪士尼角色大多戴手套

Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, and more Disney characters all have one accessory in common—gloves. Although there are many surprising facts about Disney’s most famous characters, putting gloves on animation characters is actually a pretty logical move.

米奇、米妮、唐老鴨、皮諾曹以及大多數(shù)的迪士尼形象都有一個共同的配飾——手套。雖然關于迪斯尼的著名角色有很多令人難以置信的事實，但給動畫角色戴上手套其實是有其合理性的。

The short answer as to why so many characters wear gloves is that animation is an intensive process. It takes time and precision to create the characters you know and love. Animators wanted to make their job a touch easier and faster with a few techniques and hacks. One of these strategies was using round edges instead of angles, according to Vox. So this also meant simplifying features, such as hands, to make the animation process quicker.

對于這個問題，最簡單的回答是，動畫制作是一個高強度的過程。創(chuàng)造一個為人熟知和喜愛的角色需要時間和精度，而動畫師會通過一些小技巧更輕松、更快地完成他們的工作。根據(jù)Vox新聞網(wǎng)的說法，其中一種小技巧就是用圓角替代方角。因此，這就意味著某些地方比如手部，會簡化以使制作過程更快。

Still, in the age of black and white cartoons, separating characters’ round-edge hands from their black bodies was hard. Gloves were an easy way to make their hands stand out. In fact, Walt Disney might have been the first to put gloves on his characters in The Opry House, starring Mickey Mouse, per Vox. Once animation moved away from black and white, Mickey and his pals kept their signature white gloves.

另外，在黑白動畫時代，把角色的圓角手和黑色身體區(qū)分開是很困難的。手套是一種簡單的讓手和身體形成鮮明對比的方式。事實上，華特·迪士尼應該是第一個為動畫角色戴上手套的人，其在米奇主演的電影《奧普里之屋》中首次出現(xiàn)。在動畫走過黑白時代后，米奇和他的伙伴們?nèi)员Ａ袅怂麄儤酥拘缘陌资痔住?/div>

Besides keeping the animation simple, Walt Disney told his biographer, Bob Thomas, that the gloves exist for another reason: to humanize the mouse. “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human,” Disney told Thomas in 1957, according to the New York Times. “So we gave him gloves. Five fingers seemed like too much on such a little figure, so we took away one. That was just one less finger to animate.” All this nostalgic Disney talk makes us want to go back and look at these 18 vintage photos of Mickey Mouse.

除了使動畫制作簡便化，華特·迪斯尼對他的傳記作者鮑勃·托馬斯說，手套的存在還有另一個原因——使老鼠擬人化。據(jù)《紐約時報》報道，1957年他對托馬斯說:“我們不希望給米老鼠畫上老鼠的手，因為他應該更像個人類，所以我們給他戴上了手套。而在這么小的一個人身上，五個手指看起來太多了，所以我們減掉了一個，于是在動畫中他們就只有四個手指?！?/div>

翻譯：MS小冰晶