Whiteboard Animation

Education · Science lesson · 0:45

Skeletal system animation

Watch the human skeletal system drawn step by step: the skull, the ribcage, the spine, the pelvis and the long bones of the arms and legs. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.

Length
0:45 · 2 chapters
Aspect ratio
4:3
Colour starts at
0:26
Style
Lines + colour
Formats
16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16

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Skeletal system 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.

Skeletal system animation: the finished picture

1920 × 1433 px · WEBP

The prompt behind the picture

Image prompt
Hand-drawn diagram of the human skeletal system: one friendly full-body skeleton standing front-on with its arms relaxed at its sides and palms facing forward, a round skull with a jaw, collarbones, a ribcage of curved ribs joined to the breastbone, the spine running down the middle, the pelvis, the upper arm bone, the two forearm bones and the small bones of the hands, the thigh bones, kneecaps, the two lower leg bones and the small bones of the feet, correct human proportions, nothing else in the picture but a little grass at its feet. 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.

Skeletal system, 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 artInside your body is a frame of bones that holds you up. It’s called your skeleton.
  2. 0:05At the top is the skull, a hard case that keeps your brain safe.
  3. 0:11Below it, the ribs curve around your chest like a cage, guarding your heart and lungs.
  4. 0:16Down the middle runs the spine, a stack of small bones that lets you bend and twist.
  5. 0:22ColourThe pelvis sits at your hips, and the long bones of your arms and legs meet at joints like your elbows and knees.
  6. 0:27Your muscles pull on these bones every time you walk, jump or wave.

Where this skeletal system animation fits

Use it to open a science lesson on the human body and its main bones, as a short clip in a health or anatomy explainer, or behind narration in a kids’ video. The same process turns your own skeletal system 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.