Some seemingly normal video game animations have a single still frame of body horror snuck in. They’re called smear frames. There was a time when smears were vital in games, but they don’t happen much ...

It seems the more CG becomes the prevalent form of contemporary animation, the greater the desire that young artists have to rediscover hand-drawn animation techniques and styles. Animation smears ...

I didn’t really know about animation smears until college. It was a time when my passion for animation had just kicked into high gear, … ...