Lilybee · Demo gallery

See drawings come alive.

Four real children's drawings, animated by Lilybee. Each one is preserved exactly as the kid drew it — same crayon wobble, same paint smudges — with a single thoughtful animation that brings the scene to life. Watch the videos, then scan yours on a wall.

Bring your kid's drawing alive

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Don't just watch. Point your camera.

Every drawing on this page works. Open the Lilybee app and aim at any of them — your screen, a printed copy, a friend's laptop, it doesn't matter — and the animation appears right where you're looking, following the drawing as you move.

1
Install Lilybee
Free. iOS and Android.
2
Point at any drawing below
This screen works. So does a printed page on the wall.
3
Watch it animate, right there
The animation tracks the drawing as you tilt your phone.

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Child's watercolor painting of two black cats sitting on a tree branch under autumn leaves with a pink-and-teal sky — Vika, age 7

Watercolor and gouache on textured paper

The cats who watched the world turn yellow

Two black cats, perfectly still on a brown branch. Behind them, the sky is doing something new — turning pink and yellow at the same time, scattering leaves across itself.

There is a kind of stillness only children paint. This is a seven-year-old's watercolor and gouache: two black cats sit on a brown branch beneath a soft pink-yellow-green sky, scattered with painted dots and autumn-colored leaves on the tree above. Lilybee respects every brushstroke — the cats' tails sway gently in their own rhythm, and a single real autumn leaf detaches and tumbles slowly across the scene, completing the autumn moment the kid almost-but-not-quite painted.

Child's acrylic painting of a rainbow shaped like a cat with closed eyes and red ears, with a small dancing figure beneath — Mia, age 5

Acrylic paint on canvas

The day the rainbow turned into a cat

The arch was supposed to be a rainbow. Then it grew lashed eyes, red ears, and decided what it actually was. A tiny figure dances beneath, just happy to be there.

Some children invent creatures that don't exist anywhere else. This one is a five-year-old's acrylic painting of a rainbow that decided to be a cat — closed lashed eyes, pointed red ears, a tiny figure dancing beneath the arch. Lilybee animates it without redrawing a single brushstroke: the rainbow-cat breathes gently as one piece, the dancing figure sways below, and a real photographic element drifts through the painted sky as if it had always been there.

Child's crayon and colored pencil drawing of a standing cat with arms outstretched and a heart-shaped face on her belly, with three green music notes floating to the right — Kira, age 5

Crayon and colored pencil on white paper

The cat whose heart kept singing

She stands on her tiptoes with her arms wide open and a heart on her belly. Three music notes drift to the side, like she just exhaled them.

Pure joy, drawn at five. A crayon-and-colored-pencil cat stands with her arms outstretched, a heart-shaped face on her belly, and three painted green music notes floating to the upper right. Lilybee captures the dance: the whole cat sways as one piece, the curled blue tail drifts like a ribbon, and the music notes float upward in slow succession — fresh notes appearing from near the heart-belly to keep the rhythm going.

Child's acrylic painting of a busy nature scene with a large white spotted butterfly, a dark bird on a branch, a lion cub, a snail, and bare trees under a dark blue sky — Vika, age 5

Acrylic on canvas

The night the meadow stayed awake

A whole tiny world. A butterfly the size of the sky, a bird waiting on a branch, a smiling lion cub, a teal snail going somewhere important — all under a stormy painted night.

Some drawings hold a whole world. This six-year-old's acrylic painting gathers a white spotted butterfly, a small dark bird on a bare branch, a smiling orange lion cub, a teal snail, and a small dark butterfly in the upper-right against a stormy painted sky. Lilybee picks one moment of motion — the butterflies' wings flapping in slow three-dimensional flaps — and leaves the rest exactly as painted, so every other creature stays watching, the way the kid drew them.

Your kid's drawing belongs here too.

Upload a photo. We'll animate it in the same careful way — their wobble, their colors, their style — and ship a printed poster you can hang on the wall and scan with your phone.

Start with your drawing