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One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. Four legs are easier to animate than six legs. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet. One common cheat is to draw the "spare" legs, but simply have them do exactly the same thing as one of the other pairs. Compare Four-Fingered Hands, which is based on the same principle. See also Vertebrate with Extra Limbs.

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  • Four-Legged Insect
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  • One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. Four legs are easier to animate than six legs. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet. One common cheat is to draw the "spare" legs, but simply have them do exactly the same thing as one of the other pairs. Compare Four-Fingered Hands, which is based on the same principle. See also Vertebrate with Extra Limbs.
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  • One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. Four legs are easier to animate than six legs. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet. One variant of this trope is to give decapods (10-legged crustaceans) six or eight legs instead of the 10 legs they are supposed to have. Six or eight legs are easier to animate than 10 legs. Another, less common variant that was more common in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s is to draw spiders with six legs instead of the correct eight. These days however, they are more likely to be drawn with the correct number of legs. Strangely, octopuses are rarely drawn with less than their usual eight arms. To avoid squid confusion? One common cheat is to draw the "spare" legs, but simply have them do exactly the same thing as one of the other pairs. Compare Four-Fingered Hands, which is based on the same principle. See also Vertebrate with Extra Limbs.
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