Whiteboard Animation

Education · Science lesson · 1:55

Life cycle of a chicken animation

Watch the life cycle of a chicken drawn step by step: an egg, the chick growing inside it, the chick hatching, a fluffy chick and the hen it grows into. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

Length
1:55 · 2 chapters
Aspect ratio
4:3
Colour starts at
1:30
Style
Lines + colour
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

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Life cycle of a chicken 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.

Life cycle of a chicken animation: the finished picture

1920 × 1433 px · WEBP

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn diagram of the life cycle of a chicken, five stages in a circle joined by curved red arrows on a patch of straw: a whole brown egg, a cut-open egg with a small curled chick embryo and yolk inside, a chick hatching out of a cracked shell, a fluffy yellow chick, an adult brown hen. 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.

Life cycle of a chicken, 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 artEvery chicken starts its life inside an egg.
  2. 0:18A hen lays an egg in her nest and sits on it to keep it warm.
  3. 0:36Inside the shell, a tiny chick grows, fed by the yellow yolk.
  4. 0:54After about three weeks, the chick pecks a hole in the shell and hatches.
  5. 1:12ColourThe fluffy chick eats, grows real feathers and gets bigger week by week.
  6. 1:31It grows into an adult hen, who lays eggs of her own, and the cycle begins again.

Where this life cycle of a chicken animation fits

Use it to teach how animals grow from eggs in a science lesson, for a farm or spring topic with young learners, or as a short clip in a nature video. 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.