But how do you do a Smear Frame in 3D animation, using Maya character rigs? Watch our free tutorial to find out.
Eric Goldberg - Master of the Smear Frame
The master of the smear drawing is animation legend Eric Goldberg - who boarded and animated the "You'll never Have a Friend Like Me" sequence from Disney's Aladdin. a masterclass in cartoony animation. Looney Tunes
I worked under Eric's direction both on Pocahontas and on the cartoony "Looney Tunes - Back in Action", animated in the super-snappy Warner Bros style. Eric taught me a lot about comic timing and smear drawings; he showed me how much you can get away with by tightening up the timing of your animation.
Smear Drawings in 3D Animation
But how do you do a smear frame in 3D? In the short tutorial below I show to to create some simple primitive objects to create super fast smear frame animation.
Smear Drawings in 3D Animation
But how do you do a smear frame in 3D? In the short tutorial below I show to to create some simple primitive objects to create super fast smear frame animation.
Smear Frame Tutorial in Maya
Work Method
- Start by animating a character leaving the scene in a hurry. In this case we're using the cartoony "Willy" rig (if you can't find a copy, email me at info@animationapprentice.org). The animation for this is in a separate tutorial.
- Get Willy into a nice anticipation pose (top right) so we know he's about to exit stage right.
- Remove Willy from the shot
- Create/Polygon Primitives/Cylinder. Create two cylinders, and shape them into a turquoise smear - like the middle image on the right
- Then one frame later, create a new Polygon Cylinder, and shape it into the bottom turquoise smear on the right.
- One frame later, have a blank screen. Willy's gone.
- That's it!
Beginner Animation Tutorials in Maya
To see more free basic tutorials in Maya, aimed at animation beginners, see below:
Animate a Telephone Ringing in Maya
Daffy Duck "smear" drawing - Animate a UFO on a Motion Path
- Animate a Candle with Blend Shapes
- Animate a Simple Head Turn with Monty
- Animate a Flickering Neon Sign in Maya
- Animate a Foxy Tail in Motion
- Animate a Flag Waving in Maya
- Animate Two Dice Falling and Rolling
- Animate a Cartoony Vehicle Coming to a Sudden Stop
- Animate a Traffic Cone Being Knocked Over
- Animate a Submarine Underwater with Caustics
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