Guides

How to make a drawing move, and what the other apps that bring drawings to life do and cost.

• How to animate a drawing and make it dance

  Make a child’s drawing move without drawing it again: photo, cutout, skeleton, move. Step by step on iPhone or iPad, with tips for drawings that animate well.

• Meta Animated Drawings: how it works, and an offline alternative

  How Meta’s free Animated Drawings demo works step by step, what happens to your child’s drawing, whether it still works, and an iPhone app that does it offline.

• Quiver app: how it works, what it costs, and an alternative

  How the Quiver 3D Coloring App brings printed coloring pages to life in AR, which pages are free, what the subscription costs, and an app for any drawing.

• RakugakiAR: how it works, and apps like it

  How RakugakiAR brings a doodle to life in AR, whether it’s free, apps like it, and an iPhone app that makes your child’s drawing walk, jump and dance.

• What happened to the Disney Color and Play app?

  Disney Color and Play turned colored pages into moving 3D characters. Why you can’t download it any more, what Disney Coloring World does instead, and apps that still bring a drawing to life.

• Crayola Color Alive: is the app still available?

  Crayola Color Alive brought colored pages to life in AR. Why the apps are gone, what happened to Easy Animation Studio, and how to make your child’s own drawing move today.