Among all video types, animated video is the hardest to create. You need to not only draw cartoon characters, but also animate those characters with professional tools. The whole process takes months and a large sum of money.
AI changes the way we create animated videos. The latest AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can craft excellent stories, and AI tools like FlexClip, can help generate animation videos in just a few clicks.
None of us can afford to fall behind others. So, without further ado, let’s start learning how to use AI and ChatGPT to make an animated video.
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How to Create An Animated Video
As mentioned above, to create an animated video with AI and ChatGPT, you should first ask ChatGPT to generate a story, and then ask an AI tool like FlexClip to make a cartoon video. You don’t even need any editing skills.
ChatGPT will generate all sorts of stories and scripts for you, as long as you know how to write good prompts.
A good story can’t go without a theme. If you have no idea what story your video is going to tell, first, you should ask ChatGPT for some suggestions. You can input a query like what are the 10 stories children/teenagers/YouTubers love. Pick a story theme that interests you most.
Have a theme in your mind? Ask ChatGPT to generate a story directly. Instead of entering queries like generating a story about [story name], try entering queries like generating a story about [story name] in kid’s tone, or generating a story about [story name] in 200 words. Adding some requirements to your query will always increase the chance that you may love the story generated by ChatGPT.
Generate a Story with ChatGPT
Lots of AI tools can help you generate videos directly from text, the problem is, AI text-to-video tools are pulling together pictures in the stock library that match the text, and all pictures are not animated. Yet, let’s leave this problem to the next a few steps.
To create an AI video, you will need FlexClip’s AI text-to-video tool. Click on the Create a Video button below to get started.
You are now on FlexClip’s editing page. Go to Tools > AI Video Generator > Article/URL to Video. Paste the text. FlexClip will soon generate an AI video with subtitles. Add the video to the timeline.
Use FlexClip's Text to Video Tool
AI videos are generated from pictures in the stock media and most of the photos are not animated pictures. The shortcut way is generating lots of AI cartoon images to replace. FlexClip is also equipped with an AI image-generating tool. Enter any prompt, you will get a satisfying animated picture.
Go to Tools section again, this time, switch to AI image generator. Copy the sentence to the empty square, choose the Cartoon, Anime, or Comic style, then hit Generate. You will soon get 2 animated pictures based on the prompt. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can always hit regenerate. Save the results to your computer.
Generate Animated Images with FlexClip
FlexClip automatically adds transitions between each scene. However, that's not enough to create animations. Now, we need Gen-2 that's able to generate animated video from images in just clicks.
Sign up to Gen-2, you will be greeted with 100-second free video generation. Upload the animated picture generated by FlexClip, choose animation style, you will soon be able to download the 4-second animated video.
Animate the Picture with Gen-2, Image to Video Animation Tool
Now you have already had some animated video clips. Upload your video clips to the Media section, drag it to the timeline to replace the resources.
Replace Animated Images with Videos
Add natural narration is not a daunting task anymore. Turn to FlexClip's AI text-to-speech tool, choose from over 140 languages, 200 voices to speak out anything for you. You can also set up the tone, the voice style, speed, and pitches.
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Export your AI video to your computer desktop, share your video to social media, or share via a short link so that it is easier for others to browse the animated video you generated with AI.
Replace the Animated Photo with the Video
The Bottom Line
The above method is the easiest to create an AI cartoon video. Follow and start now, hopefully you now have an AI cartoon video at hand.
As you can see, FlexClip is indeed a great AI tool to create a cartoon video. It has more AI tools like AI script generator, AI video translator, waiting for you to explore. Do give them a try and look forward to more powerful FlexClip AI tools.
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