Whiteboard Animation

Education · Physics lesson · 0:54

Inclined plane animation

Watch an inclined plane drawn step by step: a long wooden plank leaning on a platform as a ramp, and a boy pushing a heavy box up the slope. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

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

By Published Tested by Deniffer Alan

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Inclined plane 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.

Inclined plane animation: the finished picture

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The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn side view of one long straight wooden plank leaning from the ground up onto the top of a flat raised platform, making a gentle ramp. One person in simple clothes pushes one brown cardboard box up the ramp, the box halfway up the plank. Only these things: the ground line, the platform, the plank ramp, the person and the box. Nothing else in the picture, plenty of empty space above. 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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Notes from making it

The narration was checked against Britannica’s article on the inclined plane.

Inclined plane, 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 inclined plane is a simple machine. It is just a flat surface that slopes, like this ramp.
  2. 0:06To get the heavy box onto the platform, you could lift it straight up, but you would need a force as big as its whole weight.
  3. 0:11ColourPushing it up the ramp takes less force than that. You push it a longer way, but each push is easier.
  4. 0:17A steeper ramp is shorter, but the push gets closer to the box’s full weight. Screws and bolts use this same idea.

Where this inclined plane animation fits

Use it in a physics lesson on simple machines, before testing toy cars on ramps of different heights, or as a short clip in a science video for kids. 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.

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