# Rubber Hose Cartoon: motion graphics style

> Letters come alive as 1930s rubber-hose cartoon characters with pie-cut eyes, noodle limbs, white gloves and big shoes. They bob to an unheard beat on sepia film; for retro mascots, playful intros, music and kids content.

- Category: [Film Titles & Animation](https://aimotions.art/category/film-titles-animation/)
- Also known as: 1930s cartoon, rubber hose animation, vintage cartoon text, old cartoon style, pie-cut eyes, sepia cartoon, dancing letters
- Demo built with: SVG · Energy: Lively · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/rubber-hose-cartoon/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/rubber-hose-cartoon/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Turn the word [TEXT] into a troupe of 1930s rubber-hose cartoon characters. Each letter is a chunky rounded black letter with two white eye ovals holding pie-cut pupils (a small wedge missing) and a tiny white grin. Give every letter boneless noodle arms that bend in smooth arcs, puffy white four-finger gloves, noodle legs and big round shoes. Animate on twos, 12 drawings per second: letters hop in one by one, then bob and squash on a steady 120 bpm beat while arms swing and feet stay planted, then all strike a jazz-hands pose, and hop out. Background: sepia paper sky, rolling hills that bob along, rising music notes. Add coarse film grain and a soft vignette. Loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Chunky rounded black letters with pie-cut eyes and tiny grins
- Boneless noodle arms and legs that bend in smooth arcs, no elbows or knees
- Puffy four-finger white gloves and oversized shoes
- Everything bobs on the beat, animated on twos (12 drawings per second)
- Sepia paper palette, film grain and a soft vignette

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Rubber Hose Cartoon, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/rubber-hose-cartoon/