How Cartoons Are Made in CODE?! Watch It Build
Animated Short, 0:35. Published 2026-11-07.
Every frame of this cartoon is drawn by code. Watch Dad and Son get built from a blank page: the room, the bones, the paper, the eyes, then the motion blur. 🎨
Full explainer on how it works: https://youtu.be/VWgjNfQqT7k
The tool is free and open source: https://github.com/alireza12t/foldline
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Transcript
Every frame of this cartoon is drawn by code. Watch it build. First, an empty sheet of paper. Then the room. Wall, floor, sofa. Then Dad. Just bones and joints. Move his hand, and the elbow bends by itself. Wait... where's the rest of me?! Relax, Dad. Paper first, then outlines. Then the eyes. The blinks.
And a mouth. Much better. Fast moves look choppy, like this. So every frame gets blurred. Smooth. It's all made with Foldline, a free, open-source tool. Next time you watch Dad and Son, remember.
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