10 Powerful AI Prompts to Create Animated Images (Google Gemini Nano Banana)

In this video, I’m sharing 10 powerful AI prompts that anyone can use to create animated-style doodle and sketch images using Google Gemini (Nano Banana).
These prompts are perfect for creating hand-drawn animations, notebook doodle art, scribble-style visuals, and creative animated illustrations—even if you’re a beginner.

Whether you’re a content creator, designer, student, or AI art enthusiast, these prompts will help you generate unique animated images for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, thumbnails, and creative projects.

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Prompts:

1) Create an animated scene in the style of a contemporary adult cartoon sitcom. The main character is a casually dressed, slightly unkempt man in his late 30s, standing in a modest apartment kitchen cluttered with everyday items like coffee mugs and takeaway boxes. The animation style should use rough, expressive hand-drawn linework, simple flat color fills, and intentionally exaggerated features such as droopy eyelids, uneven teeth, and slouched posture. The overall mood should feel humorous yet mundane, with minimal shading and bold outlines, presented in a 16:9 widescreen animated frame.

2) Create an animated monochrome manga-style scene showing a lone samurai mid-battle, partially unsheathing his katana as energy ripples through the air. The artwork must be strictly black-and-white ink with no grayscale, using dense screen-tone dot patterns for shadows and depth. Exaggerated motion blur and sharp speed lines should radiate across the background to emphasize explosive movement. The samurai’s clothing and hair subtly flutter frame-by-frame, adding a sense of animation and tension. High-contrast lighting, dramatic angles, and bold ink strokes should dominate the composition. Render in a vertical 2:3 aspect ratio, maintaining a cinematic manga panel aesthetic.

3) Create an animated Clear Line (Ligne Claire) style illustration of a cheerful young travel sketch artist wandering through a sunny European market square. The character carries a small sketchbook and shoulder bag, pausing to observe colorful stalls, café tables, and locals chatting. Use clean, precise, continuous black outlines with uniform line thickness for all characters and objects. Apply flat, vivid, and saturated colors only—no gradients, textures, or cross-hatching. The scene should feel lively yet uncluttered, with strong visual clarity and balanced spacing. Maintain a crisp, cartoon-like animated look, composed in a 1:1 landscape aspect ratio.

4) Create a thick-line vector art illustration of a young street dancer performing a dynamic hip-hop move. The character should feature extra-bold black outlines, smooth and clean vector curves, and an expressive pose that feels energetic and playful. Use vibrant flat colors with little to no shading, maintaining a polished animated sticker / flash-animation style. Add a clean white stroke border around the main character to make it pop from the background. The overall look should feel modern, fun, and cartoon-like. Render in a square 1:1 aspect ratio, optimized for social media and animation use.

5) Create a stop-motion claymation style animated scene featuring a cheerful blue creature sitting beside a glowing campfire inside a small forest hut. The character should have a handcrafted plasticine/clay texture with visible fingerprints, dents, and uneven surfaces to emphasize a handmade feel. Its outfit should appear stitched from soft felt and fabric, with slightly fuzzy edges. The environment should look like a miniature physical set, including wooden props, moss, and tiny handmade accessories. Use warm, soft cinematic lighting with gentle shadows, shallow depth of field, and a cozy atmosphere, as if filmed in a real stop-motion studio. Maintain a 16:9 aspect ratio with smooth animation framing and rich, tactile detail throughout.

6) Create a vintage 1930s rubber hose animation style illustration of a playful anthropomorphic dog wearing suspenders, a striped shirt, and white gloves, joyfully whistling and skipping on a classic city street with old-fashioned lampposts and brick buildings. The character should feature noodle-like limbs with no visible joints, pie-cut eyes, an oversized smiling mouth, and a simple, rounded body design.
The scene must be black and white only, with heavy film grain, flickering dust and scratch effects, subtle frame jitter, and a dark vignette around the edges. The overall look should feel like a looping hand-drawn cartoon from the early sound era, maintaining a 1:1 aspect ratio.

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