Whiteboard AnimationEducation · Physics lesson · 1:30
Wheel and axle animation
Watch a wheel and axle drawn step by step: an old stone well with a big wooden wheel and a thin axle that winds up a rope to lift a bucket of water. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 1:30 · 2 chapters
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 0:53
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
By Deniffer AlanPublished Tested by Deniffer Alan
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn side view of an old stone well with a simple wooden windlass on top: two wooden posts hold one thin horizontal wooden axle across the top of the well. On the right end of the axle is one large wooden wheel with spokes, and one small crank handle on the rim of that wheel. A rope is wound around the thin axle and hangs straight down into the well opening, holding one wooden bucket of water just above the well rim. One child's hand turns the handle. Only these things: the stone well, the two posts, the axle, the big wheel, the rope and the bucket. Nothing else in the picture, plenty of empty space around it. 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 wheel and axle, which says it was probably first used to raise weights or water buckets from wells.
Wheel and axle, 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 wheel and axle is a simple machine: a big wheel fixed to a thin rod, called an axle, so the two turn together.
- 0:13Long ago, people probably used it first to lift buckets of water out of wells, just like this one.
- 0:27The rope is wrapped around the thin axle, and the bucket hangs from the end of the rope.
- 0:40ColourTurn the big wheel and your hand goes a long way round, while the axle turns only a little. That makes your small push strong enough to lift the heavy bucket.
- 0:54The bigger the wheel is compared with the axle, the easier the lifting gets.
Where this wheel and axle animation fits
Use it in a physics lesson on simple machines, before building a winch from a cotton reel, or as a short clip in a science video for kids. The same process turns your own diagram into a clip.
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