Secondhand Motion

Helicopter, the Giraffe Walks Past way

Helicopter from the archive, made the way Giraffe Walks Past was made. SAM 2.1 traced the helicopter in every frame. The rig is the chosen Quick, Draw! doodle itself (quickdraw:4509032549187584): its own lines, bent at a few joints, so every frame is the same drawing. 13 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 “helicopter”; motion broken. The body outline, curled tail tip, cockpit window line and three-line rotor all match the doodle. In frames 4 to 6 the rotor mast is drawn as a long diagonal line that cuts down through the cabin, and in frame 4 the mast is doubled, which the doodle never does.
Round 2 · bar_metNamed “a helicopter (side view, with main rotor, cockpit, skid struts, landing skid and tail boom)”; motion broken. The animated helicopter uses the same body outline, cockpit line, two struts, flat skid, hooked tail and three-blade rotor as the doodle, so it reads as that drawing; only the cropped opening frames hide the tail and skid.

Exposure sheet

FrameDrawingCamera x, yAction

K = key · B = in-between.

Where each drawing comes from