What does my kid do in Sketchling?

Sketchling is Kubrio's animation studio. Your kid thinks up a short story, draws the most important moments of it by hand on real paper, photographs those drawings, and the app stitches them into a single animated film. The drawings your child makes are the movie. Sketchling fills in the motion between them — the frames a real animator would draw one by one — so the film moves smoothly without your kid having to draw hundreds of pictures. This is why we say the hand stays the hero: the AI connects your child's frames, it never draws them.

What your kid actually does, step by step

1. Thinks up the story. Your kid decides what happens — a character, a moment, a small adventure. Nothing is generated for them here; the idea is theirs.
2. Draws the keyframes by hand. On paper, with a pencil or marker, your kid draws the few frames that matter most: the beginning pose, the big moment, the ending. These are the anchors of the animation.
3. Photographs the drawings. Your kid snaps a picture of each frame and brings it into Sketchling.
4. Bridges the frames into motion. The app generates the in-between frames that carry one drawing into the next, so a handful of sketches becomes a moving scene. Your child's line work stays visible the whole way through.
5. Reviews and adjusts. Your kid watches it back, reorders frames, re-shoots a drawing, or redraws a moment that didn't land, then renders the final film.

What they finish with

Your kid ends with a finished animated film built from their own drawings — a real thing with their name on it, not a worksheet and not a picture the computer made instead of them. The film lands in their Kubrio portfolio. During a sprint, finished films are shown at Demo Week, and if your family chooses to share it, it can appear on Kubrio's public gallery at kubrio.com/made. Sharing is always your choice — see Sharing and privacy.

The AI's role

The AI is the in-betweener, not the artist. Your kid draws the keyframes; the app generates only the connecting motion between those hand-drawn frames. It reacts to what your child made — it does not replace the drawing with its own. Kubrio's AI Crew can react to the work and cheer specific choices, but the picture on screen is your kid's hand. If a frame changes, the animation changes with it, because the frames are the source of truth.

What parents see

You see the finished films in your child's portfolio, and during a sprint you get them in your weekly update from Claire. Because your kid draws on paper first, a lot of the work happens off the device — pencil, paper, and their own imagination — and then comes back to be brought to life. You decide whether any film is shared beyond your family.