Take a photo of a drawing, upload it, and the AI turns it into a short video where the characters move and bounce. The crayon, marker or pencil lines stay just as they were drawn.
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Animate a Drawing is a tool that turns a photo of a hand-made drawing into a short animated video. Photograph the drawing, upload it as a JPG, PNG or WEBP, and choose 5 or 10 seconds. This page starts on the Bring a drawing to life motion: the AI makes the characters and objects move and bounce playfully while keeping the exact crayon, marker or pencil look, lines and colours. You can also describe the motion yourself, such as a dragon flapping its wings.
The dragon flaps its big wings and flies up across the page, its tail swinging. Keep the exact crayon lines and colours, simple cheerful animation.
Motion: My own descriptionLength: 5 secondsQuality: 720pUse this example →Family dog playsThe dog wags its tail, jumps up and down happily and the sun in the corner spins slowly. Keep the marker drawing look exactly.
Motion: My own descriptionLength: 5 secondsQuality: 480pUse this example →Lay the drawing flat in good daylight and take the photo from straight above, filling the frame with the paper. Crop out the table.
Sign in and upload the photo, up to 15 MB. Keep Bring a drawing to life, or describe the motion. Pick 5 or 10 seconds and 720p or 480p.
Press Animate photo. In a few minutes the video is saved in My Videos, ready to download and share.
The motion is told to keep the original lines and colours and to avoid realistic rendering. A wobbly crayon cat stays a wobbly crayon cat; it just starts to move.
Characters and objects move and bounce in a cheerful, simple way that suits children's art, rather than realistic film-style animation.
Pick My own description and write up to 400 characters, like the rocket blasting off with flames from the bottom. The scene from the drawing is kept.
The video takes its shape from your photo, so a portrait sheet becomes a tall video and a landscape drawing a wide one.
The video has no sound. Add a song or a voice saying the story when you share it, or in a slideshow with other drawings.
Making a still image move by hand means masking, layering and keyframing in an animation app. Here you pick the motion and the AI makes the clip.
| Feature | Photo to Video | Animating a photo by hand |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Upload one photo or drawing in the browser | Cut the subject into layers in an animation app |
| Motion | Five ready-made motions or your own description | Set keyframes and paths for every moving part |
| Drawings | A drawing mode that keeps the crayon or pencil look | Redraw or rig each character to move it |
| Length | 5 or 10 seconds, in your photo's shape | As long as you have time to animate |
| Turnaround | An MP4 in My Videos, usually within minutes | Hours of work for a few seconds of motion |
| Price | From 213 credits per clip | Animation software and your time |
Your child drew the family dog with a crayon. Seeing it wag its tail and jump is a small moment they'll remember.
A drawing of a dragon, a castle and a knight can act out the story the child told you about it.
A teacher wants to show a class their monster drawings moving at the end of term.
Families who want to keep a child's drawing as a little moving memory.
Art and primary teachers showing a class their work coming to life.
Adults who sketch and want a quick moving version of a character to post.
People making simple animated stories from hand-drawn characters.
Yes. Upload a photo of the drawing and the AI makes it move while keeping the hand-drawn lines and colours.
From 213 credits: 213 for 5 seconds or 425 for 10 at 480p, and 425 or 850 at 720p.
Yes, but strong lines work better. Very light pencil on white paper can be hard for the AI to follow.
Yes, that's the aim. The motion is set to keep the drawing's style. Results vary, so a short 480p test is a good first step.
Yes. Choose My own description and write the action in up to 400 characters.
No, the video is silent. Add music or a voice when you post it, or use the Photo Slideshow Maker with a track.
5 or 10 seconds, your choice.
Yes, with the other motions on the Photo to Video page, such as Smile and wave or Wind in hair and clothes. Only use photos you have the right to use.
Yes. Sign in with Google or email; each job costs credits from your balance, and the result is saved in My Videos.
If a job can't finish, the credits it used go back to your balance automatically.
Bring a photo or a child's drawing to life as a 5 or 10 second video. from 213 credits, and the result is saved in My Videos.
