A while back I watched through the entirety of Squirrel And Hedgehog, the North Korean cartoon whose more recent episodes did the rounds in memes and fan art. Turns out NK used to have a goodly animation industry, and stuff for domestic audiences was partly used to train animators for profitable outsourced work.
The early episodes are charmingly crude, but I noticed a tendency to be more willing to draw characters' bare feet as the art and animation quality progressed over time, rather than it being nothing but boots. After all, a brave squirrel can't nimbly climb trees to defend his homeland against weasels, foxes and field mice* without the aid of his toes ;3
