Hoops and Yoyo

If you have ever received an e-card through the email from someone, you have probably come across Hoops and Yoyo. They are an animated duo that was created by Hallmark. Highly annoying, but seriously funny. The animation is very minimal, but at the same time strait foreward and in an in-your-face style. I beleive they are flash animated cartoons. As they are made by Hallmark, they are different cartoons that are available holiday and special event based.

The detail and range of animation is very minimal. As you can probably tell its what the characters do and say in the shorts that keeps me going back and checking to see if there is a new one. The characters kind of pick up and set down in a straight sort of hobble to walk. The heads of the characters move as a real one shouldn't. If a real head moved in this manner, it would twist itself off. As we dicussed in class, the charaters over exaggerate their movement to show what they are really saying or thinking at the moment.

The first time that I came across them was in an emailed e-card from my girlfriend for valentines day. It was pretty funny. You can find the card that I got here. The third animation is probably one of the funniest light-hearted things that I have seen on the internet. You would have to have seen the Godfather series to get it though. You can find their website and a whole slew of shorts featuring the two of them at Hoopsandyoyo.com.