masihsultani/whiteboard-animator
Turn a whiteboard-style image into a hand-drawn reveal video. The render engine behind Kinoslide.
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Turn a whiteboard-style image into a hand-drawn animation. One command, CPU only. Give it a finished whiteboard picture and it writes the text word by word, traces the outlines, fills the shapes with brush strokes, and draws branched line art one stroke at a time, the way a person at a whiteboard would. Add a narration file and the drawing paces itself to the voice. This is the render engine behind the Whiteboard format at Kinoslide, released so anyone can animate their own images. The examples below show standalone illustrations and scenes from a photosynthesis lecture animated with the CLI. Complete narrated videos using this engine. Click to watch on YouTube. Try one: There is no model at render time apart from the small text detector. No GPU, no training, no API keys. Python 3.10+, with ffmpeg and ffprobe on your PATH. Install FFmpeg first: Verify both commands: Use a…
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- whiteboard-animator
- Examples
- Full videos made with this engine
- What it does with your image
- Install
- Troubleshooting
- Usage
- Pace the drawing using narration text
- Python API
- What makes a good input
- Engine alone vs Kinoslide
- Text detection model
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What this repository does
Turn a whiteboard-style image into a hand-drawn reveal video. The render engine behind Kinoslide.
Repository facts
- Owner
- masihsultani
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 191
- Forks
- 19
- Open issues + pull requests
- 3
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-08T00:25:02.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-08T01:46:37.000Z
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