Have you ever imagined making stunning animated videos without needing to draw a single frame or shoot any footage? Does it sound incredible? If yes, thanks to AI that made it a reality! This blog will guide you through a step-by-step method to create animated videos effortlessly using AI tools and help you bring your ideas to life in just minutes.

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So, to create your video simply go through the steps mentioned below.

Step 1: Creating a story

The first task of making your video is to create a story. If you already have one, then go ahead with the process. If you don’t have one, then take help from ChatGPT. Enter the necessary prompts for your story to the ChatGPT, which will give you a full story with perfect scene description.  

Step 2: Generating animated video

All right, your story is ready. Now create your animated video with Vidu AI. It will help you to generate video from texts and images. For this, you need to follow the following steps:

• First, head over to this link: https://cutt.ly/ZexxvsXK  and create an account in Vidu AI by giving the necessary information.
• Click on the text-to-video feature and enter the prompt of the 1st scene in the box that you generated before.
• Then click on the style setting. Here you will get two options- General and Anime. Select Anime.

• Now, choose video duration. For example, you can select an 8-second video. But you will need to have a paid version for this.
• Alright everything is set. Now, hit the generate button and make your video.

Step 3: Image generation  

After following the above steps you will get an amazing video. But you may face some issues if you want to make a full animated video with consistent character images. To solve this issue, images for every scene. You can use Shakker AI. For this you need-

o   Click on the link: https://cutt.ly/xebTPwIO and create an account in Shakker AI. 

o   Create a detailed prompt of the image. Here you can get help from chatGPT. Or you can get it from the Discord server.

o   Select an anime model as per your needs.

o   Click on the run model option.

o   Now copy and paste the first scene of the prompt in the Shakker AI prompt box.

o   Click on the LoRA option from the right.

o   Set the image size as 1920*1080

o   Now, set the image number and parameter

o   Alright, everything is set then hit the generate button. You will get some impressive images.

o   Now download the images that you want to use in your video.

o   Follow the same steps and generate all the scene images with Shakker AI.

Step 4: Transforming images into video

Alright, all of your needed images are ready to use. Now let’s get back to the previous video that you made with Vidu AI. Let’s explore the step-by-step process:

• Select the image to video feature from the left.
• Now, click on the upload image option and upload the first image.
• You can create a video with only this image or
• You can upload the same prompt that you used to create your images for better results.
• Hit the generate button and get your result.
• Click on the upscale button to upscale your video.
• Alright, your video is ready, click on the download button and download the video on your device.
• Upload the second image, follow the same steps and generate the videos, and download them on your device.

Step 5: Editing video

Alright, your video clips are ready and reorder them in ascending order. Now with the Wondershare Filmora tool, a very easy-to-use tool, let’s edit the video

• Install the Filmora editor on your device
• Import all the video clips into the media bin.
• Now, import all the video files into the timeline according to ascending order.
• Now, add the voice-over to your video

o   Create the voice-over text using the Filmora text-to-speech creator feature.

o   Click on the audio tab on the left.

o   Select text-to-speech feature.

o   Click on the start button from the left

o   Now, a text-to-speech interface will be opened. Enter the story that you created with the help of ChatGPT in the interface.

o   Now, select the voice actor from the right library.

o   Or, you can clone your voice. For this-

• Click on the clone voice button
• Click on the record icon
• Read the script given in the new pop-up
• Hit the submit button when you are done. Your clone voice is ready to use.

o   Now, select the cloned voice or any other voice actor and click on the generate button.

• Alright, your voiceover is ready. Now, adjust the positions of the video clips with the voiceover.
• Adjust the speed of the voice-over according to the video clips by clicking on the Uniform Speed feature.
• Now, click on the translation tab and add some transitions between the video clips. It will make your video engaging.
• Before completing the process let’s add background music to the video

o   You can use BGM from any source but it may cause some copyright issues.

o   So, come to the AI music tab on the left of Filmora for making music without any copyright issues

o   Set the mood, theme, and genre

o   Now, set the tempo as normal, select the duration, and number of tracks

o   When all these are set hit the generate button. Now, your music is ready to add.

o   You can try sometimes to get the best result and after getting the best result click on the download icon and save the music on your device.

• Now, come to the generated tab. All the generated music clips will be found here.
• Now, simply drag and drop the clips on the timeline.
• Hit the export button and your video is ready.

So following these given steps you will be able to create your animated storytelling video with different AI tools.

FAQ

Q1: Sometimes music clips are shorter than video clips when they are inserted and the sound won’t match. How to fix this issue?

To solve this issue, select the audio scratch tool option and adjust the length according to the video timeline. Now, it’s a single audio clip and you can adjust the volume to make a perfect video with Fimora.