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dagmx
Fun random fact, the tool used to animate the smurfs hats in 3 out of 4 CG smurfs films, was actually created for Doctor Manhattan’s junk for the original Watchmen film.
kjs3
I feel like there's more entertaining detail you're leaving out here.
user____name
Sounds like a joke. Spring rigs and soft body physics have been included in various cg animation software for decades at this point.
jansan
Smurfs are most probably bald, as discussed in this thread on a good old fashioned forum:

https://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/1485....

And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most probably wearing a wig.

variaga
Smurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.
fvdessen
This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from the ceiling.
jesperwe
Maybe the white on top of their heads IS their hair? And Papa smurf was old and bald and used a hat to blend in.
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bingo-bongo
From a drawing perspective the hat is fairly simple (3-4 lines), looks good and quick to sketch - speed mattered when drawing lots of Smurf’s.
animal531
I have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats.

- Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose.

- Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.

Jean-Papoulos
I can't believe they re-colored the entire first comic to make the Smurfs purple and not black. That's hilarious
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sentinelsignal
Actually happy to see something very niche that i was taught in school.
eadmund
> Somewhere along the line in the French Revolution, they adopted the freed slaves’ head gear as their own symbol of freedom, but picked the wrong one.

That’s just so typical of the French Revolution.