Secondhand Motion

See-saw, the Giraffe Walks Past way

See-saw from the archive, made the way Giraffe Walks Past was made. SAM 2.1 traced the see-saw in every frame. The rig is the chosen Quick, Draw! doodle itself (quickdraw:4512834501214208): 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 “a seesaw (teeter-totter): a long plank resting on a triangular fulcrum”; motion broken. The fulcrum and the plank's outline (hooked end, tapered far end, single-stroke edges) match the doodle closely, and frame 6 is nearly the doodle itself. In most frames the plank is mirrored relative to the doodle and floats above the fulcrum apex instead of resting on it.
Round 2 · bar_metNamed “a seesaw: a long plank resting on a triangular pivot, tilted down to the right”; motion smooth. The animated plank is a little flatter and shorter than in the doodle, but the outline, the stray tick at the top-left corner, the doubled pivot strokes and the small dot all match c.png.

Exposure sheet

FrameDrawingCamera x, yAction

K = key · B = in-between.

Where each drawing comes from