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Explainers drawn on the board as you talk

A chalkboard or whiteboard list, with each item drawn big and labels and photos placed the moment they're mentioned, keeps people watching to the next one. Give a topic and get the board drawn and narrated.

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A whiteboard explainer is a numbered list told on one board that fills up as you listen. Each item gets its main drawing big in the middle, and then, line by line, a label, an arrow, a little ruler or a real photo lands beside it the moment the narrator names it. No video model animates anything; the movement is things arriving, and that is why it holds attention so cheaply: every sentence puts something new on the board. Name the list and the writer picks the items, saves the strongest for last and writes each one as a handful of short lines. Four looks: thin chalk on black, black ink on paper, flat colour on black, or a plain white page built up piece by piece that ends on a recap typed row by row. It suits curiosity channels and lists that run in parts.

What makes one of these work

  • The thing being explained is drawn big, never a speck.
  • Something lands on the board every line, so the eye always has a reason to stay.
  • A list with a number in the title tells the viewer how long they're in for.

Openings that work

Example first lines. Use one as it is or write your own in the same shape.

  • There is a cliff on one of Uranus's moons so tall that a fall from the top would last around twelve minutes.
  • About 33 kilometres off the coast of São Paulo state there is an island the public is not allowed to set foot on.
  • Some animals shrug off what would kill us. Number four was exposed to open space in 2007, and some of them lived.

Start from an idea

Tap one. The script, voice, pictures and captions are made for you.

  • Places on Earth where visitors are not allowed to land

    North Sentinel, Surtsey, Snake Island: one coastline drawn big per item and the reason placed beside it, line by line.

  • The tallest cliffs and deepest canyons in the Solar System

    Verona Rupes on Miranda may be the highest known cliff anywhere; a placed ruler and a fall time make the scale land.

  • Animals that survive what should kill them

    Tardigrades went into open space on a 2007 mission and some survived: one big drawing, one label per fact.

  • Planets with weather nobody could survive

    NASA describes HD 189733 b as blue because its clouds are laced with glass. One drawn planet, one label, one shiver.

  • Caves and rooms closed to the public for good

    Lascaux has been shut since 1963 because visitors' breath was damaging the paintings; a replica photo fits beside it.

  • The parts of a volcano, from the magma chamber up

    One big cutaway drawn first, then each part labelled as it is named: the format's most natural shape.

  • Graphics settings in games and what each one really does

    Made for the white page: one icon per setting, a label for what it costs, and a recap list at the end.

  • Sailing knots and what each one is used for

    Each knot is one clean drawing, with arrows placed as the narrator says over, under and through.

  • Cloud types and how to tell them apart from the ground

    Each cloud drawn large on its own board with its name placed beside it; long enough to split into parts.

Looks that fit

Looks that suit this kind of video. You pick one when you make it.

  • Chalk on black
  • Colour on black
  • Whiteboard

Questions

Is it free?
Yes. You get 3 free videos a month, no credit card. Paid plans start at $9/month for more videos and longer lengths.
Can a whiteboard list keep going as Part 2?
Yes. From a finished list you can start the next part, which skips the items already covered and keeps the same series name, so Part 3 reads like the same show.
Chalk, ink, colour or whiteboard: which suits my list?
Chalk on black and colour on black suit space, ocean and night subjects; ink on paper reads like notebook revision; the whiteboard is a blank page that fills with icons, labels and photos, best for practical lists like settings or tools.
Are the photos on the board real?
Where a line calls for a photo, the studio looks for a real one and captions it with what it shows. If nothing that matches turns up, the drawing stays on screen for that line instead.

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