Whiteboard AnimationEducation · Science lesson · 2:14
Watershed animation
Watch a watershed drawn step by step from above: hills ring a valley, streams run down the slopes, join into one river and flow into a lake. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 2:14 · 2 chapters
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 1:57
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
By Deniffer AlanPublished Tested by Deniffer Alan
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The picture it starts from
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn bird's-eye view of a watershed, looking down from above at a bowl-shaped valley: green and brown hill ridges form a horseshoe around the top, left and right edges of the picture, with a few small pine trees on the slopes. Four thin blue streams start high on the slopes and flow downhill, joining together into one wider blue river that winds down the middle of the valley and flows into a round blue lake at the bottom of the picture. 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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Notes from making it
Checked against National Geographic Education’s page on watersheds.
Watershed, 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.
- 0:00Line artA watershed is an area of land that drains rain and melted snow into one body of water.
- 0:24Here we are looking down on a valley with hills all around it.
- 0:47When rain falls on the hills, gravity pulls the water downhill.
- 1:11Small streams run down the slopes and flow into bigger ones, joining together into a river.
- 1:34ColourThe river carries the water down into the lake. Every lake, river and bay has its own watershed.
- 1:58Some rain soaks into the ground instead. And whatever washes off the land, like fertiliser from farm fields, can end up in the water too.
Where this watershed animation fits
Use it in a geography lesson on rivers and lakes, to start a topic on keeping water clean, or as a short clip in an earth science video. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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