Assembly time: about 1 hour (paper-cut from Ani-PDF)
Shooting program: Stop Motion
Accommodation: Animation Box from SpeachKey
Filming time: about 1 hour
Postproduction: iMovie
Premiere: YouTube
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Heracles and Antaeus. The Secret of the Giant
Director: Eric-Marc Shur, age 10
Duration: 36 sec
Assembly time: about 40 min (paper-cut from Ani-PDF)
Shooting program: Stop Motion
Accommodation: Animation Box from SpeachKey
Filming time: about 50 min
Postproduction: iMovie, DaVinci
Premiere: YouTube
Create a real animated cartoon in 1–2 hours — no prior experience needed.
From idea to animated movie
What’s the Movie About?
shooting tools for smartphones
stories
characters
shooting backgrounds
stencils for making titles
poster templates
and even tickets for the premiere
Designed to help children aged 8–12 create animated films from scratch to premiere, even with no prior filmmaking experience.Create ready-to-shoot, 1-minute-long creative cartoons — not in weeks, but in just 1–2 hours.
Babiling Animation Kit is designed to help children aged 8–12 create animated films — from idea to premiere — even with no prior filmmaking experience.
Animation Box of SpeachKey project, Polina Tronchik
shooting tools for smartphones
stories
characters
shooting backgrounds
stencils for making titles
poster templates
and even tickets for the premiere
How to Make Cartoons with the Babiling Kit
5 Steps from Idea to Premiere
01 Choose a story from the Babiling Animation Kit magazine to film (script, storyboard)
02 Prepare your characters and locations
(cut them out of the magazine).
03 Start filming (a smartphone and a free app are all you need).
04 Make a poster and premiere tickets (use the templates).
05 Upload to the platform, host an online premiere, and share your cartoon with friends.
5 Steps from Idea to Premiere
01 Choose a ready-made story
02 Cut out characters
03 Film on your phone
04 Create a poster
05 Premiere with friends
Bringing to Life: What Is Stop Motion
Stop Motion is the very foundation of cartoon-making.
It creates the illusion of movement by filming objects frame by frame.
With the Babiling Animation Kit, a child can explore how animation works and get an immediate result using just a regular smartphone.
Prepare for Filming
The magazine allows you to make characters in just minutes.
Cut out characters, swap faces, mix costumes, and combine them — enjoy complete creative freedom.
Backgrounds and character templates are always available in the PDF version on Ani-Babiling.com.
Action!
Your backgrounds become interiors and locations.
Your paper figures are the actors.
Lights! Camera! Action!
Action!
Your backgrounds become interiors and locations. Your paper figures are the actors.
Children choose how complex their project will be.
They can start with simple scenes or move toward full short films — depending on time and ambition.
The recommended path begins with sketches and grows into episodes and complete stories.
Original Series "Babiling and the Dragon's Heads"
The first issues introduce Babiling, the royal jester, and show why being heroic can be fun.
With each new issue, readers continue the story and gradually create a full animated series — with dragons, knights, princesses, and tournaments.
First, decide which story you want to film.
You can create a simple sketch or a full short animated film — depending on how much time you want to spend. It’s best to start with short scenes and move toward full episodes.
In the first issues, the fairy tale introduces Babiling, the royal jester, and shows why being heroic is fun.
With each new issue, readers can gradually create a full animated series — with dragons, knights, princesses, and tournaments.
Sketches for every taste
Мyth anthology
Heroes from world myths come to life through stop motion.
Ancient legends become short animated films created by young directors — from heroic feats to playful adventures.
Heroes from world myths come to life through stop motion.
Once Upon a…
Classic fairy tales retold by the reader.
Children animate familiar characters and freely reinvent well-known stories in their own visual language.
Classic fairy tales retold by the reader.
A Hero in a Bind
Unexpected adventures for literary and pop culture characters.
Stories where familiar heroes face situations even their authors never imagined.
Unexpected adventures for literary and pop-culture characters.
Each story includes a storyboard — sometimes carefully drawn by professional artists, sometimes deliberately unfinished.
Some frames are complete, others invite intervention, improvisation, and risk.
Here the young director steps in: rethinks the scene, changes rhythm, redraws the ending, or invents a new one.
Each story comes with its own storyboard — sometimes carefully sketched by professional artists, sometimes deliberately unfinished.
Some frames are complete, others leave space for intervention, improvisation, and risk.
This is where the young director steps in: rethinks the scene, redraws the rhythm, changes the ending, or invents a new one altogether.
Working with a storyboard here is less about following instructions and more about thinking in images, sequences, and cuts — like creating a comic strip that insists on being filmed.
Each scene includes backgrounds, buildings, and interior props.
Furniture and decor elements can be easily assembled by punching them out of the magazine.
Every scene includes its own setting — backgrounds, buildings, and interior props.
Storyboards for successful filming
Each story includes a storyboard — sometimes carefully drawn by professional artists, sometimes deliberately unfinished.
Some frames are complete, others invite intervention, improvisation, and risk.
Here the young director steps in: rethinks the scene, changes rhythm, redraws the ending, or invents a new one.
Each story comes with its own storyboard — sometimes carefully sketched by professional artists, sometimes deliberately unfinished.
Some frames are complete, others leave space for intervention, improvisation, and risk.
This is where the young director steps in: rethinks the scene, redraws the rhythm, changes the ending, or invents a new one altogether.
Working with a storyboard here is less about following instructions and more about thinking in images, sequences, and cuts — like creating a comic strip that insists on being filmed.
Characters with еmotional features
Each story includes its own set of actors, along with facial expressions to make emotions vivid and expressive.
Each story comes with its own set of characters and facial expressions, allowing emotions to look vivid and expressive on screen.
Backgrounds and Objects for Scene Compositions
Each scene includes backgrounds, buildings, and interior props.
Furniture and decor elements can be easily assembled by punching them out of the magazine.
Every scene includes its own setting — backgrounds, buildings, and interior props.
Ani-Babiling Platform and Community
Premiere Screening and Festival Future
Every finished cartoon deserves a premiere.
Watch it together, discuss it, and let it live beyond the table where it was filmed — online, with other young directors, future collaborators, and festival audiences.
The Community
Babiling is not just a magazine, but a shared creative space.
Subscribers get access to visual templates, studio tools, and online spaces where cartoons are uploaded, discussed, and sometimes continued together.
Ani-Babiling. Contests
Regular creative contests invite young directors to rethink stories, mix worlds, and propose their own endings — playful, bold, or unexpected.
“Open Ending”
Original developments and alternative endings to published stories.
“Ba-La-Gan!”
Creative mash-ups of characters, genres, and visual worlds.
"Beyond the Horizon"
Short films where children explore scientific, environmental, and social themes through animation.
"Not Just Halloween"
Animated stories about holidays and traditions from different countries.
The Community
Babiling is not just a magazine, but a shared creative space.
Subscribers get access to visual templates, studio tools, and online spaces where cartoons are uploaded, discussed, and sometimes continued together.
Babiling Contests
Regular creative contests invite young directors to rethink stories, mix worlds, and propose their own endings — playful, bold, or unexpected.
REMOTE TO CARTOON
A practical section on stop-motion filming techniques, tools, and creative approaches
The Animation Machine
Different animation techniques seen through real examples.
Time to Transform
How animated characters change across eras and styles.
Moving Through Genres
From fairy tales to anime, Lego worlds, and beyond.
Key Frame
Filming and editing tips from professional animators.
Features stories about different types of animation — hand-drawn, cutout, clay, puppet — referencing stories and kits printed in Babiling and published on the site.
Time to Transform
The Wonderful Life of Animated Characters
What did bears and mice look like in cartoons from different eras?
Stories of characters and their creators: Winnie the Pooh and Milne, Mickey Mouse and Disney, and many, many more.
Moving Through Genres
A Guide to Animation Genres
Not-so-scary tales (from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” to “Soso”), Japanese anime, Lego cartoons, and much more.
Key Frame
Stop Motion Filming Tips from the Pros
How to film, how to edit, and tricks to bring your images to life.
Workload Chart
Reviews of New Features in Animation Apps and Recommended Software
Subscriber Tips and Lifehacks
Features stories about different types of animation — hand-drawn, cutout, clay, puppet — referencing stories and kits printed in Babiling and published on the site.
Inside Stop Motion
Different animation techniques explained through real examples, character histories, and genres — from fairy tales to anime and Lego worlds.
Tutorial
Practical filming tips, software reviews, and lifehacks shared by professional animators and subscribers.
Play That Becomes a Movie
Screen-Reducing Entertainment
A screen-free activity that doesn’t feel like a “break from screens.”
Kids make something real with their hands — and then bring it to life on camera.
What Your Child Gets Out of It
A clear, do-able project that ends with a result you can actually watch.
It works for solo play or a shared family activity — and it fits clubs, camps, and classrooms when you need it to.
Who Is the Babiling Animation Kit For
Who Is the Babiling Animation Kit For
For kids aged 8–12 who like stories, drawing, craft, Lego-logic, or “let me try it my way.”
For parents who want a calm, structured creative activity.
And yes — it also fits English-learning families and after-school groups, but it’s designed to work at home first.
For kids aged 8–12 who like stories, drawing, craft, Lego-logic, or “let me try it my way.”
For parents who want a calm, structured creative activity.
And yes — it also fits English-learning families and after-school groups, but it’s designed to work at home first.
Working with Analog Imagery
Everything begins on paper: characters, props, backgrounds — tangible stuff kids can arrange and re-arrange.
The phone is just the camera: a simple tool to capture what they already built.
OUR FOCUS GROUP
“That’s How I See It!”
Below, Eric-Marc is filming his own version of the story about Babiling, the royal jester. He came up with an idea of his own for how to show the dragon stealing a frightened courtier straight from the throne room. Eric-Marc is using a simple ring light with a smartphone holder to shoot his film.
Sisters Rosa, Emma and Maya Tronchyk are creating their own story from the Babiling Kit. They began with the Little Mermaid tale. Girls are filming with a Portable Animation Studio SpeechKey Box.
The children spent about two hours cutting out the characters and filming their scenes.
Each story turned out completely different and that’s the most exciting part. Eric-Marc and Rosa, Emma and Maya lives in different contries, but they are friends. And just like real directors, they compare their films, talk about their ideas, and learn from one another.
Children don’t follow one script — they create their own versions.
Eric-Marc films with a smartphone and simple light.
Sisters Rosa, Emma and Maya Tronchyk began with the Little Mermaid tale. Girls are filming with a Portable Animation Studio SpeechKey Box.
Living in different countries, they stay friends — sharing ideas like real directors.
Get the Kit — and make your first cartoon today
Choose a digital or print edition of the Kit — the print version also includes a digital PDF.
Or make a donation to help us develop the project.
Choose a digital or print edition of the Kit — the print version also includes a digital PDF.
Or make a donation to help us develop the project.
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