If you look at many of Hanna-Barbera’s most popular characters – Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and Scooby Doo – you will see that they wear a necktie or have a prominent collar.
Because of what we were doing, the entire business came back to work
Joseph Barbera
This meant that the body could remain static when the character was speaking, and the artists would only have to re-draw the character’s face in each frame.
As a result of cost-cutting measures like these, the company reduced the number of separate drawings required for a seven-minute cartoon from 14,000 to nearly 2,000.