26 March 2017

Flurry Effect

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Animator Dave Tendlar invented what he called the "Flurry Effect" in 1935 for a Fleischer / Popeye short called Choose Your 'Weppins.'


(Skip ahead to 4:58) The idea is to fill the air with such a profusion of fragmented elements that you can't tell what phase of the action you're looking at.

The Road Runner / Wile E. Coyote cartoons that Chuck Jones directed for Warner Brothers played with the same idea.


The flurry frames stay on the screen for just a fraction of a second, long enough to give the viewer an impression of crazy action.

Jones would occasionally freeze-frame one of these when he was introducing the characters, which blew my mind when I first saw it as a kid.

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