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== Development Of Hoops&Yoyo== | == Development Of Hoops&Yoyo== | ||
It all started were Bob Holt was challenged to create a 4th of July e-card animation using only a firecracker. [[Bob Holt|Bob]] started with a little green bunny he had already created at home; then the green bunny transforms into [[Hoops]], a pink kitty with enormous eyes and an unusually large head plunked on an unusually small body. When [[Hoops]] eventually needed a pal, the original green bunny came back to life as [[Yoyo]]. | It all started were Bob Holt was challenged to create a 4th of July e-card animation using only a firecracker. [[Bob Holt|Bob]] started with a little green bunny he had already created at home; then the green bunny transforms into [[Hoops]], a pink kitty with enormous eyes and an unusually large head plunked on an unusually small body. When [[Hoops]] eventually needed a pal, the original green bunny came back to life as [[Yoyo]]. | ||
There's this hallmark book, which tells us how hoops and yoyo come to be. | There's this hallmark book, which tells us how hoops and yoyo come to be. | ||
"Hallmark: A Century of Caring" | "Hallmark: A Century of Caring" | ||
"The popular characters hoops&yoyo got their start in Hallmark artist Bob Holt's basement in 2001, with Bob fiddling around on the drawing of a little green bunny. Bob liked his funny bunny. For a Hallmark.com e-card, Bob made the bunny pink, gave it a kitty's ears, and the green bunny became Hallmark's pink kitty, which Bob eventually named hoops. When hoops needed an e-cards sidekick, Bob brought back the green bunny and named it yoyo. | "The popular characters hoops&yoyo got their start in Hallmark artist Bob Holt's basement in 2001, with Bob fiddling around on the drawing of a little green bunny. Bob liked his funny bunny. For a Hallmark.com e-card, Bob made the bunny pink, gave it a kitty's ears, and the green bunny became Hallmark's pink kitty, which Bob eventually named hoops. When hoops needed an e-cards sidekick, Bob brought back the green bunny and named it yoyo. | ||
Revision as of 09:25, 23 July 2024
Hoops&Yoyo are characters made by Bob Holt.
Voice Actors
Hoops, is voiced by Mike Adair.
Piddles, is voiced by Bev Carlson.
Development Of Hoops&Yoyo
It all started were Bob Holt was challenged to create a 4th of July e-card animation using only a firecracker. Bob started with a little green bunny he had already created at home; then the green bunny transforms into Hoops, a pink kitty with enormous eyes and an unusually large head plunked on an unusually small body. When Hoops eventually needed a pal, the original green bunny came back to life as Yoyo.
There's this hallmark book, which tells us how hoops and yoyo come to be.
"Hallmark: A Century of Caring"
"The popular characters hoops&yoyo got their start in Hallmark artist Bob Holt's basement in 2001, with Bob fiddling around on the drawing of a little green bunny. Bob liked his funny bunny. For a Hallmark.com e-card, Bob made the bunny pink, gave it a kitty's ears, and the green bunny became Hallmark's pink kitty, which Bob eventually named hoops. When hoops needed an e-cards sidekick, Bob brought back the green bunny and named it yoyo.
Thus from wacky origins the duo's on-line popularity grew and spawned plush characters, profitable sound cards, and a crazily popular web site that launched in 2004. Much of hoops&yoyo fame lies in their hilariously unscripted gab-fests.
Their voices are recorded (and speeded up) in a Hallmark studio, with Bob as yoyo and artist pal Mike Adair voicing hoops.
There's something subversive in their wisecracking anarchy, but wholesome too. From the heap of fan letters and email, Bob says his favorite points to hoops&yoyo's innocent appeal: "I come to your site because you guys make me smile, even on bad days."