Lighthouse animation

Storytelling · Story opener · 0:52

Lighthouse animation

Watch a lighthouse drawn by hand on its rocky point, gulls overhead and a sailing boat on the waves. A whiteboard animation that opens a story, made from one illustration.

Length
0:52 · 2 chapters
Style
Lines + colour
Hand
With a hand, the pen alone, or none
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

Opens Studio with this style.

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
A red and white lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam shining, waves breaking below, gulls and a small sailing boat. 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.

Lighthouse bay, 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 artAt the edge of the land stands a lighthouse.
  2. 0:10Every night its light turns, slow and steady.
  3. 0:20Out on the water, a small boat finds its way.
  4. 0:30ColourAnd so our story begins, by the sea.

Where this lighthouse animation fits

Use it to open a bedtime story or read-aloud, as the establishing shot of a narrated video, or for a travel or coastal brand.

Questions

About this example

Pro includes a commercial licence: use your clips in client work, 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.
About fifteen seconds before it starts to draw. The video is as long as you choose, and saving it takes a few seconds more.

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