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Smears!
14 years ago
Check it out, animation's motion blur effect now has a tumblr!
http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/
What surprises me most about these is how different they are from animator to animator. These stylistic effects only last a frame, and because of the way the brain thinks about moving images they slip into a subliminal zone where we don't actively notice them, but they still mark an animator's individual style. Some look more like a flowing liquid, others are more rubbery and stretchy. Some have multiple instances of the moving body part as though three or four frames had been collapsed into one. Pretty cool, I think!
Cartoons are pretty great, guys. :3c
http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/
What surprises me most about these is how different they are from animator to animator. These stylistic effects only last a frame, and because of the way the brain thinks about moving images they slip into a subliminal zone where we don't actively notice them, but they still mark an animator's individual style. Some look more like a flowing liquid, others are more rubbery and stretchy. Some have multiple instances of the moving body part as though three or four frames had been collapsed into one. Pretty cool, I think!
Cartoons are pretty great, guys. :3c
I wonder if there is any trick to when to use them or if it's just the skill if the animator to know when to put one in place of a couple of frames.