Hartman Hips

The character designer for a particularly stylized cartoon is drawing a woman. For whatever reason, the designer wants her to look more *ahem* "mature" then the average female in this work. But the cartoonist won't be giving this character big or even medium-sized breasts. Often this isn't possible because large breasts and an hourglass figure aren't considered to be family-oriented and this cartoon is in this Animation Age Ghetto, where big breasts can't get past network standards and practises. Or maybe it's a deliberate stylistic decision: not all adult women have large breasts after all.

Either way, if you aren't using big breasts, how do you make your older character look female? Narrow her waist, shoulders and enlarge her hips. A lot.

This animated woman will usually have a small bustline, a very narrow waist, narrow shoulders and very wide hips often accompanied by large buttocks. Regardless of the width of the character's waist and hips it's important that her waist look exaggeratedly small relative to her hips. The end result should be an exaggerated pear shaped figure.

Named after animator Butch Hartman, whose cartoons often make use of this trope, though it is arguably better associated with other artists such as Genndy Tartakovsky or character designer Stephen Silver. Really, Hartman became the trope namer due to alliteration.

Examples

 * Mom (Dexter's Laboratory)

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