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[Stefan Wirtz_2]

[..] If I see female figures with their feet and hands inside tubes, I have to ask myself what that means; I have to try to give an answer.

I can drop another prominent name for that matter: Walt Disney.

He or one of his top draftsmen once said that it is a very harsh business to draw complete hands and feet in his cartoons, enormously time-consuming.
So many (Disney) cartoon figures have just 3 fingers and are wearing shoes — easier to animate when you have to thousands of drawings.
VMS shows ~500 figures.
It is indeed much entertaining to follow the tricks the VMS artist made for reducing his workload and saving some time.
Beyond such very practical reasons, all other ideas are just assumptions without any proof…