WHITEBOARD ANIMATION VI: Video Generator — What It Does and What You Need to Run It

WHITEBOARD ANIMATION VI is an open source video generator that turns an image into a whiteboard-drawing-style animation. The tool is aimed at those who need to quickly get a whiteboard video from a static picture without assembling the scene by hand in a video editor.

What it does

As described by the author, the tool produces image-to-whiteboard animation. The description lists several features: character-priority coloring, color groups that respect contours, animated photographic hands, a Gradio interface, and rendering via CUDA/NVENC. It is built on the anime-seg model, whose task is image segmentation — that is, isolating regions of the image for subsequent animation.

The authors state that development was carried out in Vietnam. The repository is tagged with the topics gradio, hand-drawn-animation, image-segmentation, image-to-video, opencv and whiteboard-animation.

What you need to run it

The platform as described by the author is CUDA; the description mentions CUDA/NVENC rendering. This means an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support is required. The Python version as described by the author is 3.11 or 3.12, 64-bit. The code language is Python.

The model weights take up 0.4 GB, and the largest weight file is 0.2 GB. The code is distributed under the CC0-1.0 license, which allows free use, modification and distribution of the code without restrictions. The model weights are available under the apache-2.0 license, which permits use and distribution provided the authorship notice and license text are retained.

The code is hosted in the repository github.com/letuandat131/whiteboard-animation-vi, and the model at huggingface.co/skytnt/anime-seg. The last code change was on November 14, 2026; the repository was created on October 7, 2026.

Who it suits

The tool suits those who make whiteboard-style educational or presentation videos and want to automate turning a picture into an animation. The open source code and the CC0-1.0 license make it possible to embed the generator into your own pipeline or adapt it to a specific task.

It is not suitable for those without an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support: as described by the author, the platform is CUDA, and rendering relies on NVENC. The tool is also unlikely to interest those who need animation in visual formats other than the whiteboard style.

WHITEBOARD ANIMATION VI is a highly specialized generator: it solves one task, but it solves it with attention to the details that matter specifically for whiteboard animation, such as the coloring order and the animated hands.