Hank Howell

Hank Howell is a fictional character created by Piti Yindee. Hank is portrayed as a laid-back wolf with dark brown fur who is witty, calm, and level-headed. He can be seen wearing a black vest and red pants. Hank takes pride in being portrayed as the big bad wolf, and possesses various levels of awareness of the fourth wall.

Voiced by Phil Ava, Hank was first introduced on Piti Yindee's YouTube channel in an animation titled after him, and introducing himself to the audience. Since then, he has been sometimes featured alongside a bunny named Billy Buns.

Background

Work on Hank Howell likely began sometime after the Wuffle comics concluded in 2017. Piti had been producing GIFs in the comic's Tumblr for various celebrations and expressed interest in getting into animation nearing the end of its run. Concept art for the character started around the late 2010s.

While Piti openly published the animation development and concept art on Patreon, it wasn't until 2023 that the character was formally introduced on YouTube. Since "Bun Hunting: Overture," copyrights for the animation were waived under the CC0 license during the credits, placing it and the characters permanently into the public domain.

Tony Bark has noticed some similarities between Wuffle's early concept art and Hank's final design, such as sharper lines, dark brown fur, vest, and pants. Bark theorized that Hank was likely an evolution of those previous designs, as he had similarly thought of making a mature wolf character based off of the same concepts as well.