: Creat a graphic picture from a video I'm not familiar with animation software. I recorded fish larvae locomotion in mp4/ AVI format. i need to present it in a graphic style . Anybody knows

@Sarah814

a first aid is to use some line art or cartoonize effect. It's common in pro level and also in low cost video editing software.

The demand of cartoonized videos is substantial. There exist many pieces of dedicated video editing software and web services for that task. Do a Google search "transform video to animation" or "cartoonize video". You will get plenty of hits.

Highest quality results need animation software. There you must recreate the frames as drawings. Original video frames can be used as reference.
Unfortunately the job also takes much more effort this way. Animation software helps to streamline the process remarkably but it does not do the work for you.

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If you have a multitrack video editor that allows you to make drawn overlays, you can frame by frame draw the motion onto a free track. Not definitely a piece of cake if there exist many, say 20 feet that must all be tracked or some otherwise rich outline must be drawn. Finally you can hide the original video. A little, but not much more complicated is to copy one frame at a time via the clipboard to a drawing program and to draw the overlay there.
You can also try some cartoonizing filter and erase the exessive crap off as an alternative for drawing the overlays yourself. Finally you can paste the overlay back as a frame into a separate video track. Alternatively you can directly make a GIF animation in the drawing program. Recycling via a multilayer drawing program (Photoshop, GIMP etc...) makes possible to reuse those parts that have not deformed, but possibly moved.
As commented, this is possible to get half-way automated. The most advanced video tools, like Adobe After Effects do it. You must outline the wanted object area in the beginning and point some trackable details in it. The software analyzes the motion and redraws the outline of the wanted object. As commented, search for "rotoscope". Below stands one of the search hits: rotoscope - an example story

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