Whiteboard Animation

Education · Science lesson · 1:23

Ecosystem animation

Watch a small ecosystem drawn step by step: the sun, a tree, grass, a pond with a fish, a grazing deer and a bird. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

Length
1:23 · 2 chapters
Aspect ratio
4:3
Colour starts at
1:01
Style
Lines + colour
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

By Published Tested by Deniffer Alan

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Ecosystem 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.

Ecosystem animation: the finished picture

1920 × 1433 px · WEBP

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn picture of a simple pond and forest ecosystem: a bright yellow sun in the top left corner, one leafy green tree on the left, a patch of green grass along the bottom, a small blue pond on the right with one orange fish visible in the water, one brown deer standing on the grass eating, and one small bird flying above the pond. Only these six things, plenty of empty space around them. Nothing else in the picture. 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.

How this clip was made

The picture above was made with an image model from the prompt above; WhiteboardAnimation.ai then drew it, stroke by stroke, as the clip at the top of this page.

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Ecosystem, 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 artAn ecosystem is a place where plants, animals, the weather and the land all work together, like a bubble of life.
  2. 0:12Its living parts are plants, animals and other living things, like this tree and the grass.
  3. 0:24The non-living parts matter too, like rocks, how warm it is and how much water is in the air.
  4. 0:37Animals depend on plants for food and shelter. The deer eats the grass, and the fish and the bird live here too.
  5. 0:49Every part depends on every other part. If it gets warmer or colder, different plants may grow, and the animals have to adapt or move away.
  6. 1:01ColourEcosystems can be very large or as small as a tide pool. The whole surface of Earth is a series of connected ecosystems.

Where this ecosystem animation fits

Use it in a science lesson on living things and their habitats, to start a topic on nature and the environment, or as a short clip in a geography video. The same process turns your own 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.