Secondhand Motion

Cow, the Giraffe Walks Past way

Cow from the archive, made the way Giraffe Walks Past was made. SAM 2.1 traced the cow in every frame. The rig is the chosen Quick, Draw! doodle itself (quickdraw:5459491900358656): its own lines, bent at a few joints, so every frame is the same drawing. 7 keys were placed by eye over the silhouettes; in-betweens follow the silhouette frame by frame. Scenery is real Quick, Draw! doodles on depth planes that slide with the measured camera; the silhouette is painted as a cel.

Planes

Review

Round 1 · bar_metNamed “cow (head and front of body, close up)”; motion broken. The muzzle, dash eyes, small smile, spots and swirl spot match the doodle, but from frame 3 on the round left ear and the hooked right ear are drawn as loose separate dashes that read as horns or antennae. The framing crops the body and legs, so only the head and the front of the body show.
Round 2 · bar_metNamed “a cow's head, seen close up, with a large rounded muzzle, ears, short horns and a spotted body behind it”; motion broken. The head uses the doodle's oval ear, tick-mark eyes, wide rounded muzzle with a small curved mouth and outlined spots, but the oval left ear is replaced by two loose strokes from frame 6 onward, which the doodle never has.
Round 3 · bar_metNamed “a cow's head and front of body, seen close up from the front, with a large rounded muzzle, two eye ticks, a smile, ears and a spot”; motion broken. The head, muzzle, eye ticks, smile and hexagonal spots match the doodle, but the left ear is a closed loop only in frames 1-5 and then becomes two open strokes, and the right ear is never the doodle's closed loop.

Exposure sheet

FrameDrawingCamera x, yAction

K = key · B = in-between.

Where each drawing comes from