Whiteboard Animation

Education · Science lesson · 1:14

Bee life cycle animation

Watch the honeybee life cycle drawn step by step: an egg in a honeycomb cell, a curled larva, a pupa and the adult bee flying out. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

Length
1:14 · 2 chapters
Aspect ratio
4:3
Colour starts at
0:54
Style
Lines + colour
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

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Bee life cycle animation

The picture it starts from

This finished illustration is all the drawing started from. Upload a picture like it and Studio draws it stroke by stroke; we don't generate pictures from text.

Bee life cycle animation: the finished picture

1920 × 1433 px · WEBP

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn diagram of the honeybee life cycle: a row of four open hexagonal honeycomb cells joined by red arrows from left to right: a tiny white egg standing upright at the bottom of the first cell, a plump white curled larva in the second, a pale bee-shaped pupa in the third, and an adult striped honeybee with wings flying out of the fourth. Coloured pencil and watercolour marker, clean black ink outlines, warm off-white paper, no text.

The picture came from an image model; any finished illustration works the same way, including one you drew. Use the prompt as a starting point for your own topic.

Bee life cycle, step by step

A script to read over it, timed to the drawing: the lines go down first and the colour arrives on the last beat.

  1. 0:00Line artA honeybee grows up inside a tiny six-sided room in the honeycomb, called a cell.
  2. 0:11The queen bee lays one small egg at the bottom of each cell.
  3. 0:22After about three days, a larva hatches. Worker bees feed it, and it grows fast.
  4. 0:33Next, the larva spins a cocoon and becomes a pupa. Its legs, wings and eyes take shape.
  5. 0:44ColourWhen it is ready, the adult bee chews its way out of the cell.
  6. 0:55Soon it gets to work in the hive, and the queen keeps laying eggs, so the cycle goes on.

Where this bee life cycle animation fits

Use it to teach how honeybees grow in a science lesson, to start a topic on pollinators and the hive, or as a short clip in a nature video for kids. The same process turns your own life cycle diagram into a clip.

Questions

About this example

Pro includes a commercial licence: use your whiteboard animation clips in client work, explainer videos, ads and paid courses. Free and Starter clips are for personal and non-commercial use.
One finished picture — PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB. Illustrations, diagrams and flat artwork work best: the kind of picture a doodle video or explainer video is built from.
About fifteen seconds before your hand-drawn animation starts to draw. The video is as long as you choose, and saving it takes a few seconds more.

Your picture is one upload away from moving.