Animators from Cuphead to Sonic to Street Fighter to Overwatch use a retro-style animation technique called smears to sell fast action. You’ve really got to see them to believe them; they might ...

She screened a few smear-heavy Chuck Jones cartoons like The Dover Boys, showed some still-frame examples, and gave us an assignment to animate one ourselves.

Epic brawls freeze on smear frames, swords hang mid-air while dialogue continues. Meliodas versus Escanor, once manga glory, dissolves into wobbling outlines topped with JPEG fire.

The geekiest, and therefore coolest, animation-related Tumblr I’ve seen: Smears, Multiples and Other Animation Gimmicks. Tumblr users are invited to submit their own examples of these animation ...

To prevent the visuals from resembling a video game, the production incorporated smear frames—a technique from traditional animation that distorts or stretches images to enhance the illusion of ...