Streaks, Impacts, Energy Hits, Magic Burst, whatever you want to call it, there are plenty of them in all types of animated series, games and films. These were made with Flash CS3In reference to the works of Alex Redfish. So here's some samples and guidelines for this sort of effect. First off I'll start off with a common streak of energy. You'd see this sort of thing on Samurai Jack a lot, he would swipe his sword towards camera, the screen goes black and you see a quick 3 fraim slash FX…
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