I grabbed a helicopter from the google's 3d model warehouse, put bones on the blades, skinned it, set the keyframes at frame 1 and 24 while rotating the blades, rendered it to a uncompressed 720x480 file (with a green background and motion blur), then chroma keyed it with cinelerra in linux and added a blur on the alpha channel to soften the choma key artifacts.
Also added helicopter sound effect from a google search. the background video is my living room on a sony digital 8mm camcorder (it sucks).
This is the 3rd version of my first animation (that I am somewhat proud of).
you could also... submit a drawing for my cause :)
OneManCartoon 1 year ago