How it works

From the kitchen table to a short film

Three steps on one page, and no hidden ones. Below, the same thing again in more detail — including exactly which parts use a model and which are ordinary code.

Photograph the drawing

Lay it flat, stand over it, take one photo. Scribbo straightens the perspective, trims the edges and lifts the paper back to white — so a wonky kitchen-table snap is genuinely fine.

Ordinary code, not a model

Pick a motion and a look

Six motions — wave, dance, run, fly, jump, spin — and ten style presets, from the drawing simply moving on its own page to clay, snow, deep water or a tiny cardboard stage. Add a sound bed if you want one.

10 presets · 6 motions

Let it render, then download

Your clip joins the queue and you can walk away. When it is ready you get a notice in the studio, and the MP4 downloads in portrait or square — ready for the family group chat.

Queued · progress · auto-refund

Under the paper

Which bits are a model, and which are just code

Worth being specific about, because it explains why the result still looks like your child's drawing and why a price on this site can never come out garbled.

Ordinary code

Straighten, trim, brighten

Perspective correction, edge detection and a white-point lift. Pure geometry and colour maths — no model is involved, so nothing invents detail that was not on the page.

Automated screening

Check what was uploaded

An automated classifier refuses photographs containing a recognisable person, and anything on the Acceptable Use list. It can refuse an upload; it never alters one. Nothing is generated and no allowance is used.

The AI step

Animate the character

A generative video model works out where the joints are, which part is a wing and what should trail behind, then moves the character while preserving its original outlines, colouring and paper grain.

Queue

Render, notify, deliver

Renders are queued, not instant. You see your position and progress, and you can close the tab. Failed renders return the animation to your allowance automatically. Files are deleted after 30 days.

No text is ever drawn by a model

Every price, plan name, label, date and caption on Scribbo is typeset by the website itself. Generative models are notoriously bad at letterforms, so we simply never ask one to produce text that has to be correct. Whatever a child wrote on their own drawing, of course, stays exactly as they wrote it — it is part of the picture, and it is never read or used for anything. See the AI Transparency Statement.