The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these animation smears are frames that creatively replicate motion blur captured on film, which is the phenomena that we commonly observe in our everyday life.

The vast world of different techniques for smears is explored in this book, expanding way beyond their commonly believed starting point in the...