The Animation Smears Book - Christian Avender

The Animation Smears Book

Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-72434-8 (ISBN)
56,10 inkl. MwSt
This book is a comprehensive guide that provides extensive information on the stylistic and creative aspects of smears and their impact on how they make use of the way we perceive motion. Additionally, it also reveals the names of artists who helped develop them and the original techniques that they used.
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 are explored in this book, expanding way beyond their commonly believed starting point in the 1940s to their actual origins that date back to the beginning of art history with illustrations and prototypes that led to their usage in some of the earliest known theatrical animations.

The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique is a comprehensive guide that provides extensive information on the stylistic and creative aspects of smears and their impact on how they make use of the way we perceive motion. Additionally, it also reveals the names of artists who helped develop them and the original techniques that they used.

Thoroughly examined by a professional animator, the animation smear is discussed how it is such a versatile technique used in all forms of animation including 3D and stop-motion. It answers all of your questions that you ever had about them and brings clarity to this simple yet mysterious trick that has puzzled fans, scholars, and historians for centuries

Christian Avender is a Canadian industry animator with experience on shows from Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros. and more. Independently researched since 2011, the author provides a better understanding of a commonly overlooked art technique that is still being used in animation today. With years of animation history experience, university education and citing from actual different examples of smears, the author provides a comprehensive understanding of this art technique than ever detailed before in a publication. As an active member of the animation industry and productions, the book features collaborations with other artists and workers to help with the design and to showcase the versatility of animation smears in different settings. With over a dozen animation techniques, it provides as a valuable resource for art institutions as well as serve as a bigger picture alongside other instructional books in animation. The author shows how a larger understanding of action and motion blur in art has been sitting dormant for years, as it is revealed in this book which is the first of its kind dedicated exclusively to the underappreciated art of animation smears.

Chapter 01 Introduction

Going Forward: The Pursuit of Movement

Chapter 02 What is an Animation Smear?

The Origination

The Foundation

Winsor McCay

Jim Tyer

Animator Skill Sets

The Requirements

The Limits

Chapter 03 Prelude: Portraying Motion in Art Before Film

Chapter 04 Part One: The Introduction of Film

Multiples

Trails

Line Smears

Abstract Smears

Chapter 05 Part Two: The Study of Movement

Long & Mini Smears

Take Smears

Reverb/Stagger Smears

Blocking Smears

Transparent Smears

Joint Smears

Chapter 06 Part Three: Influence & Application from Modern Art

Cycle Smears

Wipes

Shavings

Projection Smears

Running/Flutter Smears

Blotch Smears

Hook Smears

Direct Smears

Chapter 07 Part Four: The Digital Age

Automated Smears

Solid Drybrush

Blurred Smears

Library Smears

Multi-Layered Smears

Chapter 08 Part Four Extended: 3D Animation Smears

Stop-Motion Smears

Skewing

Conjoined & Duplication

Snapping

Chapter 09 Certain Action Examples

Single Frame

Multiple Frames

Chapter 10 Master Animator Methods

Disney Styles

Warner Bros. Styles

Japan Styles

End Note

Chapter 11 What Are NOT Smears

Gimmicks that Distort the Model

Techniques that Don’t Distort

Non-Animation Factors

Chapter 12 Smears Outside of Animation

Chapter 13 Conclusion

Terminology

Credits, References & Thanks

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.1.2025
Zusatzinfo 2 Line drawings, black and white; 294 Halftones, black and white; 296 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Informatik Grafik / Design Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
ISBN-10 1-032-72434-X / 103272434X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-72434-8 / 9781032724348
Zustand Neuware
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