Animator Brent Forrest has released 2 rigged/animated toon type effects for Maya. Love the hand animation, and the control that he gives you in the rig.
It looks like he first hand animated the animation and then imported as either SVG or image planes and cut out the parts he wanted. The animation is handled thru object visibility, so there is group per frame that you can step thru.
What's nice is he then gives you quick access to color HSV and for the toon smack a radial control for what you want to have visible.
Both are available on HighEnd3D.com for $12 each.
https://www.highend3d.com/maya/marketplace/scene-files/c/toonsmack-for-maya
https://www.highend3d.com/maya/marketplace/scene-files/c/toonpuff-for-maya
I wouldn't be surprised if he puts out some of his other 2D fx as rigs for Maya in the near future.
FIRE! from Brent Forrest on Vimeo.
Smoke em if you got em from Brent Forrest on Vimeo.
Sargeant Splatter from Brent Forrest on Vimeo.
Splash Effects from Brent Forrest on Vimeo.
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Actually, I hand drew the shapes in maya. I did create an AI importer for converting flash files to maya, but the nurbs cv count was too high and unweildly, it's much cleaner just to create the curves in maya.
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