Here's a janky Sonic run animation experiment using double cycles & paint smears (8 frames total @ 24 FPS) done today.
Took some notes from old Disney cartoons, particularly a Goofy short that was circulating among people I spoke to a bit ago, which had a very similar way of executing the run here.
Man, it would be amazing to see a project take this sort of painterly smearing on its action and apply it at scale, but down that road likes having to animate on 1s all the damn time and, eventually, madness.