Animate Illustrations

An image-to-video model that starts from your artwork, which is what the generator on this page runs. The difference that matters for illustrators is the prompt: the preset tells the model to keep every character, the painted style and any printed text unchanged and to add only small motion. Tools that treat your picture as a loose reference will animate illustrations by redrawing them, and that is the result most authors are trying to avoid.

Upload the finished illustration, describe two or three small movements, and end with a short list of what must not change. Watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil, paper-cut and flat vector styles all hold when the prompt names the medium. Avoid asking the camera to travel across the page, because that forces the model to invent artwork you never drew.

It depends on the number of spreads and the length and resolution you pick, and the credit estimate is shown in the generator before each run. Seedance 2.5 keeps your brushwork and printed text steady while the characters move, so every spread you publish still looks like your book.

New Kavel accounts get free credits, which is enough to animate illustrations from a few pages of a class read-aloud before paying for anything. Keep the printed text in the prompt so children can still follow the words on the classroom screen.

Animating artwork you own is the same as editing it in any other software, and the clips you generate are yours to use. The question to check is who owns the illustrations: if a hired illustrator or a publisher holds the rights, read that agreement before you publish animated versions or use them in a paid course.

Yes, when the prompt says so. Tell it the printed text must stay unchanged, sharp and readable, and it holds in place while the characters move, as in the demo above. Big display type and short story lines are what it holds most cleanly. To keep the same character across a whole book, repeat the same guardrails on every page and change only the motion lines.