3 Minutes to Make Animated Videos with AI & ChatGPT

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3 Minutes to Make Animated Videos with AI & ChatGPT

Last Updated: 2025. 03. 21

Summary

AI and ChatGPT can be used to generate an animated video. Now, get all AI tools ready and follow to make an animated video.

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.

Step 1

Ask ChatGPT to generate a script

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

Step 2

Generate An AI Video

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.

Create a Video

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You are now on FlexClip’s editing page. Go to Tools > AI Video Creator > 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

Step 3

Generate AI Animated Photos

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 Text to Image. Copy the sentence to the empty square, there are 9 anime styles. Pick the style you love and then hit Generate. You will soon get up to 4 animated pictures created based on the prompt. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can always hit regenerate. Save the results to your computer.

Generate Images in Anime Style with FlexClip

Step 4

Animate your Picture

FlexClip automatically adds transitions between each scene. However, that's not enough to create animations. Now, we need move to FlexClip's AI Video Generator, turn animated images into vivid animated video clips.

Upload the image in animation style, enter a prompt describing how you want all elements to move, select a generation mode and video length (typically 5 or 10 seconds), your animated video clip will be done in several minutes.

Turn Animated Image to Animation Clip

This is a vivid animated clip generated with FlexClip's professional mode. We guarantee that you can also get the same professional-level animations as we did.

Animated Video Clip Output

Step 5

Replace the Resource with Animated Videos

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

Step 6

Add Some Voiceover

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.

Generate Voiceover with AI

Step 7

Download & Share

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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