# Convert a drawing into an animation!

*Extremely easy, fun and free!*

By [Fabi Yamada](https://paragraph.com/@fabiyamada) · 2024-03-12

animation, webtool, tutorial

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If you [follow me on warpcast](https://warpcast.com/fabiyamada) you may have notice I posted a few animation lately, which are so cute and fun. _Not perfect_ **_but free!_**_._

Everything started a few days ago when I met [the anky mentors](https://highlight.xyz/mint/65ecc65e9ab450e98aed98bb), and today I felt like I had to draw some chibi ankys. So I made some sketches of them:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/07719142de0575abbbfff75232b96f88.png)

Some are my inventions and other are inspired on actual anky mentors.

Just a few hours after I made the chibi Anky sketches, my friend [moxarra](https://warpcast.com/moxarra) show me there's a website to animate drawings. He actually said it would be cool to animate my daughter's drawings but they were about to take a shower so I gave it a try first!

**Started by drawing the chibi Anky in Procreate.**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d5705d51e73a3492ef330a57d387e5f4.gif)

the chibi Anky is born!

Making a drawing in a piece of paper and taking a photo of it also works!

**Then go to:** [**https://sketch.metademolab.com/canvas**](https://sketch.metademolab.com/canvas)

Click on **Upload Photo**:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f912ba7b310a4b4c4fa62b6190c7a18f.png)

And then click on **Next**:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3dde84d6fc42b8022d074496edb1bddd.png)

Fix the bounding box if necessary and then click **Next**:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/51000826e79095c4ef3448181a93f409.png)

Now check if the character has been correctly masked, fix if necessary and then click **Next**:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/166066188bf4d9dd35318f56dd72b50f.png)

Now check if the character joints have been correctly generated, fix if necessary by dragging the points, think of these as the character bones. Then click **Next**:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/987ea043c5e4f343f85e6d3421552ee9.png)

Now the funniest part, select your favorite animation on the left, and your character will come to life on the right!

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c8f19da73968bea579bb1bc5d9ab546f.png)

yaaaay!!!

You can now share or download your animation, to download the MP4 click on **Share** and then on the first button.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/095cbe396635e98ead10da8100adcfab.png)

You can easily convert this mp4 into a gif by using online tools or software like Photoshop. Let me know if you would like me to teach you how!  

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/639bd5a6a07821fb9b90466cd5522b23.gif)

yaaaaaaaay!!!!

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/94ce463fb05c8374772c6f7446876092.gif)

[see youu in the ankyverse!](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/anky)

**Note:** For this post I will leave checked the option of "Send newsletter to my subscribers" but I don't know if you would find it annoying (I actually dislike newsletters), but actually I don't know if you would be notified of the new post (I guess you would) if I uncheck it... I can give it a try on the next post. I am really noob at this so if you let me know in the comments what you prefer I can make the best decision for the next posts!

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*Originally published on [Fabi Yamada](https://paragraph.com/@fabiyamada/drawingintoanimation)*