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Animate Drawing

Animate drawing online: bring your drawing to life with a short animated video.

1Add your drawing

JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10MB.

2Describe the motion

Or pick a motion

3Quality & length

Length

2s

2s15s

Resolution

480P · 2s · 8 credits

How to Animate a Drawing in 3 Steps

  1. 1

    Upload Your Drawing

    Take a photo or scan of the drawing, or upload a digital one. JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10MB.

  2. 2

    Describe the Motion

    Write what should move, such as "the girl waves and the dog wags its tail", or tap a preset such as Wave, Clap or Cheer.

  3. 3

    Generate and Download

    Most animations are ready in about two minutes. Download the MP4, or open it later in My Creations.

Animate a Drawing

Hand Drawing Animation

Hand drawing animation starts from the paper: crayon, marker, colored pencil, watercolor or paint. Take a photo of the page; it becomes the first frame of the video, and the AI animates what you drew from there.

Photographing a drawing on paper

  • Lay the page flat and shoot from straight above
  • Use even daylight, without shadows or glare
  • Fill the frame with the drawing, not the table
A marker and watercolor robot blinks, its antenna lights up and it waves.

Kids' Drawings: Privacy and Safety

Animating a child's drawing is one of the most common reasons people use this tool. Here is what parents should know before they upload one.

  • Accounts are for adults

    The service is for users 18 and older, so a parent or guardian signs up and uploads the drawing. Children should not create accounts of their own.

  • Photos of children need consent

    A drawing is fine to upload. A photo that shows a child may only be used with a parent's or guardian's consent.

  • Every request is checked

    An automatic content filter checks each uploaded picture and prompt before anything is made. A flagged request is blocked, nothing is generated and no credits are used.

  • Uploads are deleted within 48 hours

    Uploaded pictures are deleted automatically within 48 hours. They are used only to make the video you asked for, never to train AI models.

  • One animation at a time

    Each account runs one animation at a time, and every animation uses credits that are shown before it starts, so nothing runs or charges without you.

  • Videos stay in your account

    Finished videos are listed only in your own My Creations. The site has no public gallery and posts nothing for you. You can ask us to delete your data at any time.

Animating your child's drawing

  1. 1Photograph the whole page in daylight, so every part of the drawing is in the picture.
  2. 2Ask your child what should move, and write it in simple words, such as "the dog wags its tail".
  3. 3Start with the shortest clip: it uses the fewest credits, and you can make a longer one once you like the result.
  4. 4Download the MP4 to keep it or send it to family in a message or an email.

Full rules: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

Flipbook Animation

A flipbook makes a drawing move one hand-drawn page at a time. Here you draw only the first page: the AI makes the frames in between, and the result plays as a video instead of a stack of paper.

  1. Stick-figure doodle on a skateboard, frame at 0 s

    Your drawing

  2. Stick-figure doodle on a skateboard, frame at 1.5 s

    1.5 s

  3. Stick-figure doodle on a skateboard, frame at 3 s

    3 s

  4. Stick-figure doodle on a skateboard, frame at 4.5 s

    4.5 s

Frames from one clip of a stick-figure doodle

Drawing Animation Maker

This drawing animation maker runs in your browser. Before you start, you choose:

Motion
Your own words, or a preset such as Wave, Clap, Nod or Bow
Length
2 to 15 seconds
Quality
480P or 768P
Shape
Landscape, square or portrait, such as 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16
Last frame
Optional: a second picture for the video to end on
A colored pencil frog lifts its top hat, bows and puts the hat back on.

Animate Your Sketch

Animate a sketch without inking or coloring it first. This sketch animator works from pencil sketches and line drawings, which can stay black and white as they move, with the shading, construction lines and paper texture still in place.

Tip: add "keep the pencil sketch style, no color" to your prompt, so the AI sketch animation stays a sketch.

Pencil sketch of a barn owl on a branch

Your sketch

Animated

A pencil sketch of a barn owl turns its head toward the viewer and ruffles its feathers.

Animate Drawing Online vs App

Most animate drawing apps have to be installed from an app store first. This one works online: open the page in your phone's browser, take a photo of the drawing and upload it.

InstallNothing to installDownload it from an app store first
On a phoneIn the phone's browser, with a photo from the camera or the photo libraryIn the app
On a computerIn any browserOnly if the app has a desktop version
Your videosIn My Creations on every device you sign in onDepends on the app

Make Animated Drawings Free

  • Free credits for new accounts, enough for a first short animation
  • No credit card to sign up
  • Credits returned if a generation fails

Longer clips and higher quality cost more credits; the panel shows the exact number before you start.

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Doodle Animation

Doodle animation works with the simplest drawings: a stick figure, a doodle in a notebook margin or a few lines on a sticky note. To animate a doodle, describe how it should move, and add "plain black lines, no color" to keep it looking like a doodle.

A felt-tip stick figure rides a skateboard and does a small jump.

Animate Drawing FAQ

How do I animate my drawing?

It takes three easy steps: upload a photo or scan of your drawing, describe how it should move (or tap a preset such as Wave), and start the animation. When it is ready, download the video as an MP4. The same steps animate a line drawing, a doodle or a pencil sketch.

What software do I need to animate a drawing?

None. This drawing to animation AI runs in a web browser such as Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox, on a phone or a computer. You only need an account to start a generation.

Can I animate my child's drawing?

Yes. AI drawing animation works well with kids' drawings: crayon pictures, doodles and drawn characters such as people and animals. Accounts are for adults, so a parent signs up and uploads the drawing. Each upload passes an automatic content check, is deleted within 48 hours and is never used to train AI models.

How long does it take to animate a drawing?

Most animations are ready in about two minutes. You can stay on the page while it works, and the finished video is also saved in My Creations.

Can I add a voiceover to my animated drawing?

Not inside the tool. The video comes with sound the AI makes to match the scene, such as rain, footsteps or a dog's bark, but you cannot record or choose a voice. To add narration, open the MP4 in a video editor and record your voice over it.

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