What is Whiteboard Animation MCP?
Whiteboard Animation turns a finished picture into a hand-drawn whiteboard animation video: the picture is sketched stroke by stroke, then coloured in, with or without a drawing hand. The Whiteboard Animation MCP server brings that into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and any MCP client, so you can ask your assistant to draw a picture and get the video back without leaving the chat.
- Remote, nothing to install:
https://mcp.whiteboardanimation.ai/mcp (streamable HTTP)
- No API key: sign in once with your WhiteboardAnimation.ai account over OAuth 2.1
- Free to try: new accounts start with free credits
How to use
- Connect it: one click in Claude, Cursor or VS Code, or from ChatGPT's Plugins page. Coding agents can add it themselves. Setup for every client: whiteboardanimation.ai/mcp.
- Sign in once with your WhiteboardAnimation.ai account.
- Hand your assistant a picture and ask for a whiteboard animation. It plays in the chat, and you get a link that saves the MP4.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|
status | Plan, credits left, drawings queued and running |
quote | What one drawing costs in credits |
create_upload | Upload a picture |
create_drawing | Draw a picture as a whiteboard animation |
get_drawing / wait_drawing | Follow a drawing to completion |
list_drawings | Your latest drawings |
render_link / wait_render | Render up to 20 drawings as MP4, transparent WebM or PNG |
Use cases
- Lesson explainers: a diagram drawn by hand, line by line, ready to narrate over
- Product reveals: a product shot sketched in, then coloured, for a launch video or an ad
- Picture books: each illustration drawn in as the story is read aloud
- Batch work from a coding agent: every picture in a folder drawn and saved as clips
FAQ
Does it make pictures from text? No. Bring a finished picture; make it first with an image tool if you need one.
Does it give me a video file? It gives you a link that renders the MP4 or WebM in your browser and saves it to your downloads.
Plugins for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, plus an agent skill: github.com/celados/whiteboard-animation-mcp.
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