{"id":267482,"date":"2026-10-16T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/?p=267482"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:15:02","slug":"how-to-make-cartoon-videos-for-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/how-to-make-cartoon-videos-for-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make cartoon videos for YouTube, from cast to payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To make cartoon videos for YouTube with AI, use one template for each job: a character sheet for the cast, a story template for the episode, and a packaging template for the thumbnail and metadata. Export at YouTube&#8217;s specs, upload in YouTube Studio, then get paid on performance through Picsart Earn.<\/strong> No drawing or animation software is involved at any stage.<\/p>\n<p>This guide covers the tools, the YouTube specifications, the five production steps and how to monetize with Earn, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Which_tools_to_use_for_a_YouTube_cartoon\">Which tools to use for a YouTube cartoon<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Picsart Flow can take one photo or a text prompt and build <a href=\"https:\/\/picsart.com\/flow\/kids-cartoon\/\">kids&#8217; cartoons<\/a> with a real storyline, sized for YouTube, Reels and Shorts. Each job below has its own Flow template.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The cast:<\/strong> Create Cartoon Character Sheets for Animation Projects. A sketch or photo goes in, and consistent character art in three styles comes out, with a model sheet and three companion characters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long-form episodes:<\/strong> Create a Kids&#8217; Animated Detective Video Story. It builds a 30-second 16:9 mystery with its own animal cast, three scenes stitched into one video.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shorts:<\/strong> Create Animated Kids Lessons with Your Own Teacher. Your character and a topic become a 45-second vertical lesson with voiceover, plus a script, caption and tags.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Songs:<\/strong> Create a Cartoon Kids Song Video. It writes rhyming lyrics and builds a short 3-scene music video with audio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The upload package:<\/strong> Create a Cartoon Adventure with a Superhero Theme. It returns an animated short with music, a thumbnail, and a YouTube-ready title, description and tags.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upload and audience settings:<\/strong> YouTube Studio, where every video gets its made for kids setting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monetization:<\/strong> Picsart Earn for YouTube, which pays on verified engagement for videos on your channel. More on that below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/picsart.com\/flow\/templates?category=6a5faab061d38145ee653372\">Cartoon &amp; Kids category<\/a> has more community templates for varying the format once the first series works.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"YouTube_specifications_for_cartoon_videos\">YouTube specifications for cartoon videos<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here is what YouTube expects for each format.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background: #111111; color: #ffffff;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333; text-align: left;\">What to check<\/th>\n<th style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333; text-align: left;\">Regular videos<\/th>\n<th style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333; text-align: left;\">Shorts<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Shape<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Wide, 16:9<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Tall, 9:16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Quality<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Full HD (1920 x 1080) or 4K<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Full-screen vertical<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Length<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Up to 15 minutes, longer once your account is verified<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Up to 3 minutes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">File type<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">MP4<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">MP4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Thumbnail<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">A wide JPG or PNG image<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">A tall image, added from YouTube Studio on a computer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><strong style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Up to 100 characters<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: #111111; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #333333;\">Up to 100 characters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Two quick tips. Skip black bars around the video, because YouTube fits the player to it on its own. And verify your YouTube account before uploading your own thumbnail.<\/p>\n<p>Every step below uses a Picsart Flow template, named in the step itself. The first is <a href=\"https:\/\/picsart.com\/flow\/templates\/28f868b07cc55d2b3b7e78022100c7ebf4837eac3c953d5056f29509867ee75b\">Create Cartoon Character Sheets for Animation Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"section_how_to\">\n            <h2 class=\"how_to_title\" id=\"How_to_make_cartoon_videos_for_YouTube_in_Picsart_Flow\">How to make cartoon videos for YouTube in Picsart Flow<\/h2>\n    \n        <div class=\"how_to_steps\">\n                                        <div class=\"how_to_step how_to_step--highlighted\">\n                    <div class=\"how_to_step_content\">\n                        <p class=\"how_to_step_title\">\n                            <span class=\"how_to_step_number\">1.<\/span>\n                            Build your recurring cast                        <\/p>\n                                                    <p class=\"how_to_step_description\">Open Create Cartoon Character Sheets for Animation Projects and upload a sketch or a photo of your lead character. Pick one of the three styles it returns and keep the model sheet as the reference for every episode, so the character looks the same from upload to upload.<\/p>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"how_to_step how_to_step--highlighted\">\n                    <div class=\"how_to_step_content\">\n                        <p class=\"how_to_step_title\">\n                            <span class=\"how_to_step_number\">2.<\/span>\n                            Pick a story template for the format                        <\/p>\n                                                    <p class=\"how_to_step_description\">Choose by where the video will live. Create a Kids&#039; Animated Detective Video Story gives a 30-second 16:9 episode for the channel page, with no uploads needed. Create Animated Kids Lessons with Your Own Teacher gives a 45-second vertical lesson for Shorts, and it takes the character from step 1.<\/p>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"how_to_step how_to_step--highlighted\">\n                    <div class=\"how_to_step_content\">\n                        <p class=\"how_to_step_title\">\n                            <span class=\"how_to_step_number\">3.<\/span>\n                            Swap in your character and brief, then run                        <\/p>\n                                                    <p class=\"how_to_step_description\">Replace the sample inputs with your own. The lesson template takes your teacher character and a topic. The detective story lets you customize the clues, so each episode carries its own mystery instead of repeating the last one.<\/p>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"how_to_step how_to_step--highlighted\">\n                    <div class=\"how_to_step_content\">\n                        <p class=\"how_to_step_title\">\n                            <span class=\"how_to_step_number\">4.<\/span>\n                            Review the scenes and regenerate the weak ones                        <\/p>\n                                                    <p class=\"how_to_step_description\">Watch every scene before you export. Look for a character drifting from the model sheet, a flat beat, or a scene that does not lead into the next. Rerun the scene that misses and keep the ones that already work.<\/p>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"how_to_step how_to_step--highlighted\">\n                    <div class=\"how_to_step_content\">\n                        <p class=\"how_to_step_title\">\n                            <span class=\"how_to_step_number\">5.<\/span>\n                            Package and upload                        <\/p>\n                                                    <p class=\"how_to_step_description\">Run Create a Cartoon Adventure with a Superhero Theme for a thumbnail plus a title, description and tags, then edit the text to fit the episode and keep the title under 100 characters. 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Two settings in YouTube Studio come first: the audience and the AI label.<\/p>\n<h3>Set the audience before you upload<\/h3>\n<p>YouTube requires every creator to mark videos as made for kids or not, a rule tied to the FTC and COPPA. Animated characters and cartoon figures are one of the factors it weighs, next to children&#8217;s songs, stories and early education. A family-friendly cartoon is not automatically made for kids. The setting changes how viewers can interact, because a made for kids video loses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comments<\/li>\n<li>Cards and end screens<\/li>\n<li>Notifications<\/li>\n<li>Save to playlist and Watch Later<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Answer it honestly per video or for the whole channel. A preschool song channel and a teen comedy are different businesses.<\/p>\n<h3>Label AI music when you post<\/h3>\n<p>Under YouTube&#8217;s AI disclosure rules, non-realistic animation does not need an AI label, and neither do AI-made thumbnails, scripts or titles. 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Posting alone does not guarantee a payout, since eligibility, review and reward terms differ by campaign.<\/p>\n<section class=\"section_faq\" id=\"faq-faq-6ad25e3911f01\">\n            <h2 class=\"faq_title\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n    \n    <div class=\"faq_items\">\n                    <div class=\"faq_item faq_item--active\">\n                <button type=\"button\" class=\"faq_question\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n                    <span class=\"faq_question_text\">Can you make cartoon videos for YouTube with no animation experience?<\/span>\n                    <svg class=\"faq_chevron\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n                        <path d=\"M6 9L12 15L18 9\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/button>\n                <div class=\"faq_answer\" aria-hidden=\"false\">\n                    <div class=\"faq_answer_content\"><p>Yes. The templates handle the animation, so the work is choosing a character, writing story beats and reviewing scenes. 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Save both as MP4 files.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"faq_divider\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq_item \">\n                <button type=\"button\" class=\"faq_question\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                    <span class=\"faq_question_text\">Do cartoon videos have to be marked made for kids?<\/span>\n                    <svg class=\"faq_chevron\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n                        <path d=\"M6 9L12 15L18 9\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/button>\n                <div class=\"faq_answer\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-collapsed>\n                    <div class=\"faq_answer_content\"><p>Not automatically. 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