StretchLearn Course

Draw ideas to life and get paid for it

From a one-page script to a delivered explainer video: storyboarding, hand-drawn vector assets, the VideoScribe and Manim toolchain, and a real client handoff.

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Beginner9 hr 55 minSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

Whiteboard animation is the hand-drawing-on-a-page explainer style used by SaaS companies, schools, and YouTube educators to make abstract ideas concrete. This course walks a complete beginner from a one-page script and a numbered storyboard through asset creation in Adobe Illustrator and free libraries, into building the animation in VideoScribe and the open-source Manim engine, and out the other side with voiceover sync, sound design, render settings, and an invoice. Every lesson uses real software, real frame counts, and worked timing examples so you can ship a paid 90-second explainer, not just a demo.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Write a tight, benefit-led explainer script paced to roughly 150 words per minute of finished video

Build a numbered storyboard that maps each script line to a drawn frame, an asset list, and a duration

Create and source hand-drawn SVG vector assets in Adobe Illustrator and free libraries with clean draw-on paths

Animate a whiteboard scene in VideoScribe using draw, move-in, and morph with controlled pacing

Produce data-driven and mathematical whiteboard sequences in the open-source Manim engine

Sync animation to recorded voiceover, add sound design, render at delivery spec, and hand off to a client

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: From Brief to Script

Understand what whiteboard animation is best at, then write a tight, paced explainer script that gives every later stage something to draw.

3 lessons

What Whiteboard Animation Is and When to Use ItContent · 40 min

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Writing the Explainer ScriptContent · 50 min

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Marking the Script for AnimationContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Storyboarding and Hand-Drawn Vector Assets

Build a numbered storyboard from the shooting script, then draw and source the clean vector assets that the animation will draw on.

3 lessons

Storyboarding the BoardContent · 50 min

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Drawing Vector Assets in IllustratorContent · 55 min

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Sourcing Assets Without Drawing EverythingContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Animating with VideoScribe and Manim

Build a real whiteboard scene in VideoScribe, then use the open-source Manim engine for data and math sequences other tools cannot match.

3 lessons

Building a Scene in VideoScribeContent · 55 min

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Data and Math Sequences in ManimContent · 60 min

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Stitching Tools TogetherContent · 50 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Audio, Delivery, and the Client Business

Record and sync voiceover, design sound, render to a clean delivery spec, run review rounds, and price and invoice the work.

3 lessons

Voiceover, Music, and Sound DesignContent · 50 min

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Render Settings and Client DeliveryContent · 45 min

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Pricing, Quoting, and Running the WorkContent · 50 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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