Animate Your Character with AI - Make Your Character Walk, Wave, and Move in Minutes

Ever sketched a character and wished you could make it move? Try to make your characters waving, dancing, or even talking? Thanks to AI-powered tools, animating basic character movements is now easier than ever! Whether you want your character to walk, jump, wave, or dance, AI-driven animation simplifies the process, making it accessible even if you're a complete beginner.

In this guide, we’ll introduce an easy online AI character animator, called FlexClip, and explore how to use it to animate your character—without the steep learning curve. Let’s get started!

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Part 1 Quick Solution for Animating Your Characters with Ease

Generally speaking, creating animated characters used to be a complex task requiring advanced skills in animation software, but now, tools like FlexClip have made it incredibly easy for you to animate your own characters.

This online tool, FlexClip combines the ease of a drag-and-drop interface with the power of AI to help you animate characters quickly and effortlessly, even if you don’t have any prior animation experience. While FlexClip is more suited for basic character movement, its simplicity and accessibility make it a great option for beginners and those who need quick, engaging animations without the steep learning curve of more complex animation software. Keep reading to learn how to animate character with FlexClip.

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Part 2 How to Animate Your Character with FlexClip

FlexClip’s user-friendly interface and powerful AI features help you create professional-looking animations in no time. Now that you know what FlexClip is all about, let’s get started now, and let your creativity flow as you bring your characters to life!

Step 1 Prepare Your Character Design

Before diving into animation, you’ll need a character image to animate. You can use an image of your favorite character downloaded from internet or a custom character sketched by yourself.

Or if there is no fitting character image in hands, you instantly create a new character using FlexClip’s built-in AI tools - image-to-image and text-to-image tool. Check the detailed steps below to create a character with AI.

Design Your Character with AI

#1 Turn Your Image into an AI Character:

For those who want to transform yourself, family, friend, or even pet into a unique character, FlexClip's image-to-image tool helps you achieve that with simple clicks:

1. Upload your image to FlexClip’s image-to-image generator.

2. Choose any style you want your character be, such as Ghihli, Retro Anime, and more, and start generating. You can also write a simple description to define your photo in detail.

3. Once generated, check the final result and save the AI-transformed character image.

Turn Your Image into an AI Character

#2 Generate AI Character from Text Prompt:

Or you can try FlexClip’s Text-to-Image generator for swiftly creating a character from text. Unleash your imagination and use written words to create any type of characters. Whether you're after an anime girl or cartoon boy, a cute or cool one, simply describe your desired character, and watch AI transform your ideas into stunning image.

1. Go to FlexClip’s AI text to image generator, and then describe the character you want to generate in detail.

2. Choose the art style and ratio for your character image, and wait for AI to generate.

3. Once done, you can download AI-generated character directly.

Generate AI Character from Text Prompt

Step 2 Animate Your Character Using AI

Now that you have your character ready, it's time to animate it! FlexClip offers a powerful AI video generator tool for you to animate your character with simple clicks. It can turn your still character pictures into dynamic videos simply by uploading your character image, and giving any needed animation prompts, like dance, run, walk, kiss, hug and more, and then just wait for the AI to animate your character according to the prompt to bring your character to life.

Animate Your Character Using AI

Step 3 Make More Edits, Like Voiceover, Music and Captions (Optional)

Besides animating your character with AI, FlexClip also allows you to add the character animation to its built-in editor to further customize your character animation with powerful tools, rich resources, and stunning effects.

If you want your character to speak or display text, go to the "Text" tab and add animated text. You can even sync those words with a voiceover or use FlexClip’s text-to-speech feature. To make the animation more engaging, you can also add background music. FlexClip allows you to upload audio files or use their built-in music library.

Make More Edits, Like Voiceover, Music and Captions

Step 4 Export and Share the AI Character Animation

Once you've done all the edits with the AI character animation, click the "Preview" button to see it in action. If everything looks great, export the video in your desired resolution (e.g., 720p or 1080p) and format.

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