Turn a Script into a Cartoon Reel
Turn a script into a cartoon reel by cutting it into picture beats. A paragraph that has no picture does not belong in the reel.
Turn a script into a cartoon reel by walking the lines and asking what the viewer sees. A line with no picture is narration you should cut or attach to the previous picture. Cartoon reels fail when they illustrate adjectives. They work when they illustrate objects and actions.
Highlight nouns you can draw
A price tag, a door, a phone, a queue. If the sentence is only "quality" and "trust," you do not have a cartoon yet. Rewrite until an object appears.
One line, one drawing
Stacking three lines on one drawing makes the voice late or the picture crowded. Split the lines or delete two.
Read it against the sketches
If the voice finishes and the drawing still has unused parts, the drawing is too busy. If the drawing finishes first, the line is too long.
A worked example
Script line: "People leave when the first frame is a logo." Drawing: a phone with a tiny logo, then the same phone with a bold title. The abstract word "engagement" never appears.
Before you post
- Every line has an object.
- No drawing carries three lines.
- You deleted the adjectives you could not draw.
Where Scro fits
Paste the cut-down lines into Scro's explainer and approve the still for each line before motion. The title line can sit on screen for the first three seconds.
Break the script into beats. Finished samples are on the examples page.
Related: Same Cartoon Character in Every Clip.