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Markers and whiteboard
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Business and diagrams
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Paste a children's story or type an idea. Every scene is drawn in front of the viewer while the narrator reads it.
Parents who want a bedtime story their child can watch again, teachers of young classes, and YouTube channels that publish moral stories, fables and folk tales. Stories for children are one of the most common things people make with StrokeVideo, in Hindi, Arabic, Urdu, Spanish and Portuguese as much as in English.
A story video here is a sequence of hand-drawn scenes. Each scene is drawn line by line while the narrator reads that part of the story, then the next one begins. Playful gives round, big-eyed characters in candy colours; Marker and Crayon look like a picture book; Creative is a warm, loose ink line. The characters stay the same from the first scene to the last.
Know this before you start. StrokeVideo draws 2D pictures stroke by stroke. It does not make 3D cartoons like animated films, and characters do not walk around, move their lips or act a scene out. If your prompt asks for a cinematic 3D cartoon, you get hand-drawn scenes instead. For moving 3D characters, use a character animation or generative video tool.
1. Choose I have a script and paste the story exactly as it should be read, or choose Write it for me and type the idea, for example: a greedy crow learns to share, for five-year-olds, with the moral at the end. 2. Pick a drawing style, a narration language and a voice. 3. Choose the frame: Landscape 16:9 for YouTube, or Portrait 9:16 for Shorts and Reels. 4. Generate, then download the MP4.
Short sentences that name what the child should see work best. 'The little rabbit hid behind a big red mushroom' gives the pen a rabbit, a mushroom and a colour. Describe the hero once, its animal, colour and clothes, and put the same description in the director notes, for example 'the hero is a small grey rabbit in a yellow scarf on every board'. One narrator reads the whole story, dialogue included; for a different voice per character, record the story yourself and upload it under I have a recording.
Inside one video the characters stay consistent. For a series, describe the hero the same way in the director notes every time. With a membership you can also save the character under My characters and pick it for each new episode, so it is drawn the same way.
You get an MP4 with no watermark, yours to post on YouTube, send on WhatsApp or play in class. If you publish on YouTube, mark the video as made for kids when it is: that is YouTube's rule. Free: 1 video a day, up to 2 minutes each. Members can make videos of up to 15 minutes.
No. Every scene is a 2D drawing that appears stroke by stroke. Characters do not move around or lip-sync.
Yes. Narration is available in 14 languages, including Hindi, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian. Paste the story in that language and pick a voice for it.
Within one video, yes. Across a series, describe the hero the same way in the director notes, or, with a membership, save it under My characters and pick it for each video.
One narrator reads the whole story. For different voices, record the story yourself and upload it as MP3, M4A or WAV; each drawing starts when you say it. On the free plan, recordings can be up to 30 seconds.
Most picture-book stories fit in two to four minutes, which is roughly 300 to 600 words of narration. A free video can be up to 2 minutes long.
Yes, the videos you make are yours to publish. Whether a channel is monetised is YouTube's decision, and its rules on repetitive or mass-produced content apply whatever tool you use.
