AI Animation Mastery: Unleashing Creativity with Artificial Intelligence.

1. Introduction - Unlocking AI Animation A Three-Part Journey: Hello and welcome to this course where we're going to look at animation and using AI tools and generated content. There's going to be the different levels, different projects throughout this course. And each one is going to get slightly more advanced to use slightly different tools. But a lot of the tools will also be re, used throughout the course. For example, we're going to rely heavily on chat GBT. We're going to rely heavily on this PRM tool. Chat GBT prompts, for example, and we'll be using that throughout every single project that we use. The majority of the tools that we're going to use are free or very low cost, and I've done that on purpose. There are much more advanced tools out there that are quite expensive. I've tried to steer away from those as much as possible. As I say, there are three different projects that we walk through and each one will be an opportunity for you to develop your own work and to show that after the rest of the community. I'm really excited to see what projects come out of this. I'm hoping they're going to be a lot better than the ones that I show you on here because that would be really encouraging. But basically throughout this course, it's going to be over my shoulder. You'll see the process that I go through. You'll see sometimes I'll make mistakes, for example, and go no less do this one again. And that's all part of the learning process because these tools are so new. Ai is such a new phenomenon that is available to us all, we're still learning how to best use them, how to best tweak the various prompts. How to use things like negative prompts for example. So I'm really excited that you're going to join us on this journey. Also, do share any tools that you found or discovered that may be even better than the ones that I show. And maybe going forward, I can update this course with new tools as well. Thank you very much for joining me, and I'm really looking forward to you sharing your work with the whole community and us learning together as we move forward. 2. Introduction to Project One - Talking Fish: Okay, welcome to Project One. In project one, we're basically going to create this very simple and quite fun animation. As you can see, a little fish is going along and this talking character and the crab. We have a voice and a script that we're going to do using AI. Lots of fun tools here. We are going to be using these main tools here. So we're going to be using chat GBT. A chat GBT prompt that we use throughout this whole course. 11 Labs. Adobe Video Animated Video, right? Which is another free tool that Adobe does. Canva and Cap Cut. And you can see here from, there's only one potentially paid tool, although this tool actually can do, there's a free trial, so you can potentially use it for free for this particular project. Should be quite simple, definitely. This is a beginner stage for animation if you're quite advanced, you know, for example, if you're a professional animator but you've not used this particular process, you might find it a fun thing to do anyway. And to share your projects with the rest of the group, that would be great. So this is the project that I want you to follow along with first and share your results. 3. Creating a Simple Effective Animation Background: Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is create the background for this simple animation. So I'm going to use Canva as the platform where I'm going to start to put all the elements together. I'm going to click on this tab here which is presentation 16 by nine, and I'll get this background here. Now what we're going to do, we're going to do an underwater scene. And you'll see why I'm going to do that a bit later because we're going to use another tool that's going to make a very nice underwater type of feel. And again, I'm going to try and use just all three products, so this shouldn't cost you any money. And try to keep this one as simple as possible. So what we want to do is look for, as you can see, most of these are what you can do. You can go through here, you can try and find a one that is free if that's what you need. Basically found this one in Pixabay. I'm going to use this back here. We're just going to download that, then We're going to import here. This just okay, I've just imported it. As you can see, it looks pretty nice. Yeah, we could simply just leave it like this and that would be absolutely fine. We could put little elements on here, but what we want to do is try and get this underwater type of feel. I'm going to show you how to that. If you come to a website called layer L, E, X, we can get started here. This basically gives this animated movement type of feel. I'm guessing this. Using AI to do this, you basically just sign up and simple way to join up and you get 60 credits. So we're going to upload our background that we've just downloaded here. This one, we've basically got something here and what I've done, I've messed around with these settings to try and get something more under feel. This is fine for now. I mean, maybe I could play around with it even more and really get it, but I think this is okay. I'm probably going to go more of the circle. I think that feels slightly more of a underwater movement. So what I'm going to do is download this now. Export it. 4. Upgrading the background: Okay. So I've uploaded file, the background file and as you can see, it looks pretty good. You know, I think that looks sort of underwater. I guess we could play around with it a bit more, maybe blowing out certain elements, but, you know, I think that looks fine. What we want to do, obviously, you can tell that this is going to be aimed more at children. We want to add some elements that are, that don't move in such a way, so it gives a little bit more of a free D field. I think I've just typed in Ocean. And we want to find this clip art, all these elements, these graphics that are free. Again, I've clicked on that and we want to add this maybe to the foreground here. The great thing is, with the magic recommendations, we can add other elements. Let's add this guy here and we'll put maybe right back something. We can add him right there. Maybe we could add this stone at the forefront here. May be there, because we want the main characters to be there. We can keep adding these elements just to give it that look and feel something more free D, let's have a look at that. Something like that is okay, I think. Okay, so what I've done, I've basically made a little bit of movement in this whole image. So you can see here we've got a school of fish there. This guy, the crab down there. A little bit of animation. I've added some elements as well. So it's just got a nice freed children's look and feel. Very vivid colors. I think that's quite nice. If you're using Canva, then there's lots of different three elements that you can do. If I just quickly show you maybe how I did this crab down here. Let's say we got this crab here and we're going to put another one there like that. Okay, he's going to run across here. And then I'll just click, animate. You click, create an animation here. Then you basically just drag, drag him across like that. And let's say he's going to hide behind here, okay? So you can see there's two of them. This guy is going across there like that. Then what you want to do, obviously he's going to come from behind the rock and he's going to go behind this coral. So we just go to layers here, okay? Then we drag this guy all the way down like that. He can go next to this guy. And then we should be able to see them cross over like that. That's quite fun. Okay. So he's still there. Why is he still there? Because that coral there is basically there. So that doesn't quite work, but you get the point how to make things move across the screen. And obviously the fish is the same, The school of fish at the back here. If you see these guys here, I put them right in the distance. And I'll just duplicate it. So you can just right click any one of these fish. Let's not let me do it, but let's say that we just right click here. I can't say it, duplicate it or control. Okay? And it basically adds the same path. So you can get like this school of fish there, so you can do a lot of things. I even had like a little bit of water here, you can just about see it. And that was just my way of just trying to get more of an underwater effect. Okay, so I want to take the guy, I've just done the crab out because it doesn't quite work. And then we'll move on to the next video. 5. Using AI to Write a Script and Voice Over: Okay, so now we are going to develop a script and a voice over, which is, again, using AI is really easy to do. So throughout this whole course, we're going to be using a plug in for a chat GBT, which is called IP R M. Okay? And what it does, it gives you these various tools so you can expand chat GBT toll free, and it's basically a Google Chrome plug in. Okay, so what we're going to do is just go to Youtube script writer. Okay. Youtube script writer. We click on there and let's say we want a children's video about underwater sea life, okay? So I typed in kids video about ocean coral reefs. Okay? And it's pretty amazing what it is dished out. I mean, this welcome young explorers to an incredible underwater adventure. Today we're going to deep dive into the mesmerizing world of ocean coral reefs. Are you ready to discover the secrets of the sea? And then it gives you scenes that you can do. If you want to put this together, you could even use this for your developing your scenes as well. If you want to do that for your animation videos, just look at this. Coral reefs are like bustling cities in the sea, et cetera. And then we're going to go into another tool that we're going to use throughout this whole course called 11 Labs. Now 11 Labs, you get so many credits for free. And it's something like $5 a month for quite a lot of Here we go. Let's look at the subscription I've got. I know I've paid $5 or something, and I get something like 3,000 credits. Your first month is just $1 anyway. So it's definitely worth giving this a test drive. Okay, What we're going to do, we're going to basically going to try and find a kid's type of video, and I'm going to use a character that's a phish. I'm going to play around and try and come up with a type of children's voice can basically you can go here and had a generative or cloned voice. We're going to do a in voice convict's see in the voice library. If there is a kids one we can. Let's see what. It doesn't really matter. Let's try neutral. Let's leave it off. Gender doesn't matter. We want young, because I'm British. I'm going to choose British. Let's see what comes up. Kindness is more kindness. Where there is great love. I allow my intuition to lead my pair. The best thing about the view, whatever happened, nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Okay, I'm going to go for this Edgar Nerdy, I quite like this. I think we can play around with this voice a little bit. Okay, here we go. So we've basically got nerds. I put the stability at well 30. Clarity run about 60. And the exaggerated style, because obviously this is a children's type of animation, I put it a little bit higher, maybe it could have gone higher. And what the clever thing about this program is if you put explanation marks, it's pretty good like it. It will use that as a prompt. I've generated there, I've downloaded there. I'm going to play it next on this video, so you can see what it's like. Welcome young explorers to an incredible underwater adventure. Today we're diving deep into the mesmerizing world of ocean coral reefs. Are you ready to discover the secrets of the sea? Let's go just look at this. Coral reefs are like the bustling cities of the sea teeming with an amazing variety of marine life. It's a sight to behold. 6. Addling Life to The Animation: Okay, now this is the fun part. This is where we animate our character. Now the great thing is with Adobe, if you go to Adobe.com or you just Google Adobe Animate, you'll come here. Basically what you do is it will put a voice to a character. So what we want to do is create. Now once we get here, we can see that there's loads of characters and they're constantly updating these characters. Probably by the time that you come here, you'll find some other characters that you can use for your own projects. Again, one of the great things here is that you can get some real inspiration about the types of animations. You can do education projects, you can do Youtube channels, whatever it is that you're wanting to do with your animation. Even here, the school elements that you could do for kids, that type of stuff. Right down here we've got this thin, okay. I want to use this guy because that makes sense, right? The background we want green screen. Now transparent doesn't work. I found for some reason I don't understand why. But if you go to green screen, you can basically just pick whatever it is. Pick a good something close to what a green screen would actually be. That looks about right. Okay. Just as long as whatever program you use can recognize this background and it's not too similar obviously, to the character. Then I want to upload the 11 Labs script that I just downloaded, which is this one here. And it will basically automatically add it. This guy moving his lips, mouthing the scripts that we've just done. Okay, So it's done, it's pretty good. But see, unfortunately my laptop can't quite cope with streaming this, so I'll have to put it into the editing software and then I'll show you exactly what it is. 7. Bringing it all Together for Your First Animation: Okay, so what we're going to do now is we're going to bring all these various elements together. The fish character that we've just done in Adobe, we've got this background. All I simply done here is going to share and then you download, make sure both pages are selected and that we have P video download that. And then we basically bring all these elements into the program that we're going to use to put all this together. Now I'm using caput is basically free and really easy to learn. It is basically everything that you really want to do for a basic animation. Now of course you may use something like After Effects or Illustrator or all these various Adobe high quality programs. If you're used to using that, of course carry on using that. I was definitely trying to get something for free for people. I've basically got the background here, the foreground, which is the character and the voice. You can see the voice there. You want to obviously make sure that the background doesn't have any noises on it. I don't know if the sound effects just want click there like that. Just make sure so there's nothing over the top. Now what we want to do, of course, is get rid of this green screen. Now the way to that is click on the Elements. Click on the character we go to Cut out, you got Chromekeyre makes you click on Chrome key, and then you got the little Ppette. Is that what it's called? Papette. Click on there to make sure you see the strength. About maybe three. You can see how far you can go until. Yeah, I'm going to leave it four, it's fine. You know, if you go too far you may start to lose some of the edge here. Yeah, so let's just see how this looks for now at this level. Welcome young explorers to an incredible underwater adventure. Today we're diving deep into the mesmerizing world of ocean. Now, I think that looks sort of fun. It looks okay. You could potentially leave a lot of that, but I think we can make it a little bit better. So we want, obviously here, this whole scene, what we can do is we can look, potentially slowing this down so it covers the whole of this script. So we can simply do that by going here like this, something like that. Let's see if that's reefs. Are you ready to discover the secrets of the scene? That's okay. Let's go. We could just render this clip as well just to make it a bit smoother. That's fine. Like that. Would we want this guy to be a little bit, a little bit smaller as well? Let's see. Maybe like that, seems a little bit better, maybe in the water. So it's like that underwater adventure. Today, we're diving deep into the mesmerizing world of ocean coral reefs. We can put other effects on as well. One of the fun things here is we can still see what effects there are that maybe give it a slightly more the water, more of underwater feel. Okay, I've put this halo effect on if you can see there, but I've taken the atmosphere right down and the speed right down as well. You can see coral reefs are like the bustling cities of the sea teaming with an amazing variety. It gives like a shimmer, like it's underwater effect. It's quite basic, but it's okay. I think that's okay. As an opening scene, you could play around a, we could edit the way that the background merges together. We can overlap things and make it a little bit more smooth out. But I think for this example, you get the point of what you can create that looks pretty good to me. You could upload that to Youtube or use that in schools, or someone could commission you to do some education video. And that would work really well. All we do in Capco, we just go to export up here. You'd export it as ideally four. You could, yeah, basically 24 frames is fine and then that would be absolutely fine. You could definitely upload that. Okay, so there's lots of ideas there. Of course, you'll have your own project. It won't necessarily be an underwater thing, it could be like a space type of video. They've got, it's coming up to Halloween recording this. They've got some Halloween characters there, some horror you could do like a really fun sort finger around that. There's lots of different ideas and you've got all these filters as well that you could use to play around with that as well so you can get all sorts of different effects. I hope that's helpful for you as a very basic projects where you could do some really nice animation using AI and using lots of different free tools. 8. Introduction - AI Animation Project Two Crafting Dynamic Characters: Okay, in project two, we're going to be creating something like this. We're going to be having this topic that has sparked countless debates and moving, moving character. Here we create this character from scratch using AI, so this is not a real person or anything like that. The voice over everything about it. We're going to explore the concept of socialism. So you can see it looks pretty good, interesting and engaging. And the tools that we're can be using are listed here. So we can be using again B which is free. The prompt, which is free for chchiBT, which is very powerful. You should have this anyway. It's so good. We're going to be using 11 labs for the voice over ID, for the character movement. Actually, before then we're going to be in Discord. We're going to be a mess around with blue willow and testing that out. We're going to be using an AI creation generator called playground, which I use all the time so that's to develop our characters there. And then finally we're going to put it all into cap cuts because that's free and easy to use. But of course, you may have your own program and that's absolutely fine. As you can see, it's quite a lot of tools, potentially the cost could be this here. But you can have a free trial with both of these, so you can use them for free for justice project if you want to do share your results with the rest of the group and make sure you follo long and develop your own project. This is a really fun project to do if you've not done anything like this before. And as always, even if you're quite an advanced animator and used lots of different tools before, but you've never done anything like this, it'll be still a fun project for you to follow along with, and I'm sure there's something new that you can gain from this. 9. Exploring Affordable AI Art Blue Willow Tutorial and Alternatives: When I first came across AI artwork, the first tutorial that I watched and that introduced me to that world was all about Mid Journey. I think Mid Journey was an introduction to a lot of people regarding the wonders of AI artwork in character development and animation and the whole world. Unfortunately, Mid Journey has got quite expensive. If you really are on a budget, then it can be a bit of an issue. Now one of the main alternatives that I use is this blue willow. To get to blue willow. Come to blue willow and then you just click on the Discord tab at the top right there, you'll get an invite and you basically can join Blue Willow a little bit like Mid Journey via Discord. You come here like this and you just accept the invite which I already have. It'll take you to the process of signing up it. Blue Willow. Now if you're not sure what Mid Journey is and blue willow and all that, it's basically a particular platform to developing AI artwork when you first come here. If you're not used to mid journey and discord and that whole platform, they can seem really confusing. They can be quite busy. As you can see from my page here, there's a go down here. There's a lot going on here for me, but basically it's not as intimidating as it looks. What you may want to do when you first come here is read the various pages of instructions. If you read through these basic steps, you also get a pretty good handle on what blue willow is. Let's go here to some of the rookie pages. I guess you call this, just pick one at random. We'll go for 27. Let's see what's on here. As you can see, it's basically almost like a feed of what people have been looking at. This is quite interesting. You can read the problems that people have put in, you can get some inspiration from that. The problem with this, it can get really busy and you can basically end up being subjected to lots of other people's. Let me look at that a second. Why is this? Okay? You can find all interesting things here. You can go down and you can look at some ideas and get some thoughts and stuff. But as say you can get by looking through here. One thing you may want to do straight away with Blue Willow is basically set up your own server. Pretty simple to do this. Now these are servers here. Okay. I'm going to show you my one here. This is the one that I use when I'm creating my own artwork. And you can see it's basically all of my prompts, all of my artwork ideas are here. No one else is sort of taking over this. It's all my stuff and it doesn't get too busy. Now, the way that basically you set up your own server, it's quite simple. You click on this, Add a Server button, may be up here for you, basically across you click on there and you want to do create your own for me and my friends. And you can call it Wever you want. I'm going to call this just demo for now. You can add your own picture if you want. I'm looking above that. You just create that, right? There's D for demo. Okay. Nothing there really. Then you go back to Blue Willow. You basically just want to click on the Blue Willow tab here. Wherever you find it, you can see this option here, Ad Server, click on Ad Server down. You'll see Ad Server click on there and you'll see demo 220. That's what I've just created. Click on there, continue, keep all those T then authorize. It'll check that you're a human and go to demo 224. Okay, now this is a mid journey server, so I'm going to do my first prompt here. And what you want to do when you do your own prompt is you slash imagine you can sit up there, look boy with crazy white hair, red glasses shows at Moon. It's a really weird prompt. I'm just using throughout this whole course just to see the variations and differences that you can get. A couple of minutes, you might get various adverts and stuff popping up that you can just dismiss if you want to keep it clean. Eventually, you'll get the results going back. These prompts here, I'm not as convinced by that. If you wanted to, you could do this option, basically redo the prompt again and come up with a totally different results. We'll see what we get from that. Okay, so we've got some different ones here. Maybe I'm going to pick this one here. I quite like this. It's not quite what I was looking for. But we'll do for this demonstration, what I can do here, I can do four, which is upscale, which is basically making it a bigger, more detailed image. Or I can get variations of that particular image. I'm going to go to via. These are the results that I've got back on this. Looks fun. I can even have more variations here. I'm going to go to variations again. Okay, I basically gone from this, I focused on this guy here, I've got these variations, then I basically had variations of this one. If I was doing this as a serious project, none of these I would be really that pleased by. But let's go for this second one here. Basically the upscale, it's giving me an Upscale here. I have all these options as well. You can go like this one, you can appear as well. But on the whole this is okay. Just for this particular example that's basically blue willow, say it's very similar to mid journey. And all the things you can do in mid journey you can pretty much do with blue willow but you get it's not 100% free. I'm not quite sure the limitations are enough. For just a basic projects during the day? Yeah. Check out blue willow and see how you get the 10. AI Platforms for Character Creation: The platform that I've discovered that is great as a go to is this one called Playground.com The amazing thing about playground is that you get something like 1,000 images a day that you can produce for free. It's pretty incredible. You're probably not going to limit. As soon as you come to playground, you basically have this community feed which you can easily get lost in, but it's quite inspirational. The great thing about this is that you can click on these images and you can see basically the prompts that people were putting in, all the various details that people were putting in. You can copy the number. No, we'll come to the Sed number later. But basically you could copy this number and you could replicate the exact same image. So each image has a unique number that you can basically sample. You can see all the details of the image from this. If you find an image that you really like, I quite like this. I think this is quite a nice image. Maybe I'd want to take some of the inspiration from this and develop my own. You can get quite lost in the community fields, you can look at landscapes and just spend a good period of time looking at landscapes. And again, say some inspiration, find out what's the problems people use, how they've manipulated an image to come up with that particular type of image. Now, on playground, do you ever think called canvases, which is like, I guess, a type of image that you're creating if a paid service, for example, you could have multiple canvases for multiple projects. On the free version, I think you get maybe two or three canvasses if you're going to stay for free, probably just going to do most of your work on one or two canvases. This is the general platform that you get when you your image. What we're going to do, we do the prompt that we've used for this course, which is the boy with shocking white hair and red glasses, shots at the moon. Which is quite an unusual sort of prompt, I guess, so you can see the differences. So I'm going to type that in now. Okay, so I'll type that in a great deal of detail for this. So we're just going to see what we'll come up with that sort of basic prompt now. And then I'll show you some of the ways that we could manipulate this image further to get something that we really wanted once it's developed. Now what I want to do is show you something that often happens on this platform, which I've not noticed on other platforms. You get this filter which is NS FW not suitable for work, which indicates that it could be a adult themed prompt. I don't know why, because actually I've missed out the word boy. For some reason, boy was shocking white hair and regulates shouting at the moon. I can't see anything in there that's particularly shocking, but let's try put in boy and see how that goes. Okay, so it's brought up again, I'm going to try a few variations and see if I can get this tay work on this platform. Okay. Eventually I managed to get teenage male with shocking white hair. Now to me I think that looks pretty good. I'm really pleased by that. But what I'm going to do is on the right here, you can regenerate the prompt again. And you can put in four options. You can change the quality. If you change the quality, obviously it's going to be slower or slow. Slow if you go up and then fast if you go down. Prompt guidance, higher values will make your image closer to the prompt. So if you really wanted a real teenage mountain there had to be reg glasses then you go higher there. So I'm going to go a little bit higher there. I think a little bit higher there. See what happens here. You can change the dimensions down here, you can change the filters. If I wanted to be super realistic, maybe I'll choose this one which I've used before. I'm I'm going to use that one now and see how we get on. Click to generate and see what happened. Okay. Quite different results we can see here. This to me is Good Mangol style. When I click the filter it went absolutely wild. Right. Proves that really what you need to do is to really play around with the various filters, come up with some different mess around with the settings. I think if I wanted to keep this style, this more realistic style, I'll definitely take down the prompt, specific quality. I take down a little bit what I probably do here, this general fela. I basically copy this image here. What this was the next generated images on this particular image, but I'll take it down quite low. Then what we can do is you can put in here things like you see the fingers are not quite right. What I would do is teenage male with shocking white hair reg glasses shouting at the moon with fingers and a thumb. The thing is that AI seems to really struggle with getting fingers right. I'll put here, exclude from the image, is less than four fingers. Okay, This is a thumb. Thumb. Okay, See what this comes up with? It may not work and I don't want to make this video really, really long until I get the perfect image. I just wanted to show you some of the things we'll do because we're going to be coming back to playground a little bit later anyway. So let's see what this general, okay, so all we can see now is that the fingers look a little bit more realistic. This image here are quite like, if we go in, we can see that looks fairly realistic, 1234123. So the hands are good. I quite like the watch. Yeah. You know this guy I think looks okay. I think we've done okay with that. The others, the farm is a bit weird, right? The eyes are weird. The fingers are messed up there. Fingers, they're not quite right there, but this guy is good. I think if I was really working on this guy, I would probably focus on this image. Redo this image again. Maybe I'll go stronger and then maybe I'd want to do something like make the moon really big behind him or something like that. Maybe I could change his clothes. I like this, This is quite good. There's like a really rough guide to playground. Playground has an amazing help. You can basically just go to help there and you can look at the video, that's not working. But anyway, the Youtube video extensive channel, I should say. You can basically follow their Youtube channel and learn loads of tips and tricks around this. That's how I learned stuff like putting in lesson four fingers and stuff like that into there. What we can do, if I wanted this I'd write Click and you can use okay, You scale. Then basically you have a really reh resolution for that. That's not bad considering it's totally free, right? There's no watermarks on here. It's pretty high quality for free. Let's say the watch here. As I just noticed that you really want to, there's various tools here you can object is where you basically click on that. If you click on the auto sign, it will pick up on that. They go like that and then you click on, so hopefully it should work out just to raise that watch there. Not ideal, is it? So he could click on it again and see what it does. No, I'm going to go back bring that watch in. The other trick that you can do is potentially I could try and take that. I mean, that really small take, let's try five. Maybe I'll just take this blob out and see if it does. It does that, okay. So you can see it has taken out that a little bit. I could maybe even try a little bit more. See if it takes that out. There you go. That's not too bad thing. You can do a little. You can see this example could potentially, I'll do this may be a bit too simple a prompt, but we can have a look. No, it's not quite done. It's basically literally turned it white. I was hoping it would make the watch just white, but it can't do it. There's still some flaws here, but these are sometimes really worth playing around with. Are really needing to say, if you want to take out this logo for example there, or the eyebrows are a little bit dodgy here, maybe you wanted to smooth those out or something like that. Or as you can see, his teeth look a bit unpleasant, Maybe you want to clean those up. Some of these prompts of these tools can be quite helpful. 11. Developing Your Character Further: Okay, so what we want to do next is to come up with a character. This character basically is going to be the avatar that is going to present videos or animations or whatever it is, in a way that is almost like a news presenter or something like that, or presenter of a video. That's the plan for this particular character. I've come up with a prompt here. I'm going to try and news, but I'm going to show you another way that I'm going to try and expand on this and make it even better. So it's a 20 year old man smiling, speaking to the camera. The smiling, I wanted smiling. I want someone who was warm. They're speaking to the camera. That's a very important part of the prompt for this particular project. Blue eyes, messy black hair, wearing a scruffy black T shirt and red retro thick glasses. Now this part, of course, the blue eyes glasses, is just how I wanted this person to look. That could be changed to however you wanted it, including the age and gender of the character. I put black hair wearing a scruffy black shirt because I wanted the background to be white. Meaning that I could just take out the background very, very easily. So that's why I chose very neutral colors. Of course, you could have, you know, dark green or dark blue or whatever you wanted. Yeah, white background cinematic lighting. Now this part of the prompt for the program that we're going to use. It works a lot better with very realistic types of characters. So I wanted this character to look like a real character, cinematic lighting. And I put in the type of camera that I wanted, a very professional type of looking camera, aperture, all this type of stuff. So I'm going to take this a second. I want to show you another trick that I could do with it. It may end up being better or worse in chat GBT, which of course is free. You can add this incredible extension again for free. Ip RM for chat GBT. It's just a Chrome extension that you can add for free and it gives you all these amazing options. I use this an awful lot. Now, you can put in any prompt in here. Let's say if you have a Youtube channel, you can just Youtube in here and it'll give you a script. It'll give you loads of different options that you can use. Utilizing the power of chat GBT. What I'm going to use mid, mid journey prompt. There's quite a few here. I like this one because it gives you six different options. And I'm just going to put in what I have got here and see what it comes up with. Sometimes these end up giving you ideas that you haven't quite thought of. I sometimes take these and we'll adapt them a little bit more. Sometimes they're good, so let's look at the first one. Imagine a prompt photograph of a 20 year old man with blue eyes, messy black hair, wearing a scruffy black glasses, smiling at the camera against a plain white background. So similar to what we've already got shot with 35 lens aperture? Yeah. Some matter, like warm temperature, capturing a joyful expression. I mean, that's pretty much the same. It's just reworded it. Let's look at this one, see if there's any difference. Plain black, retro glasses, smiling at the camera. Blue eyes messy, set against simple white background, nothing there really water color. Now on oil painting, no comic that would obviously give more of the classic Pixar type of thing free D effect. I don't think there's anything here that's particularly different, so I'm not going to both using these. But you can see that it can be helpful going forward, particularly if you're not quite sure what prompt to put in. You could put stuff like scruffy, student, realistic, smiling face in the camera and you come up with something a lot more in depth. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to put this prompt into both the playground, I also I'm going to put it into the blue willow one that we used earlier on and see what the differences are. If I want to play around, I may want to focus on one particular one. I suspect it will be playground. I really like playground. We see, we'll see what happens. I'm going to go to play. I'm going to keep it quite low for now. I don't need to have the full size because that just makes a bit quicker. I'm going to do four variations, where's it gone? Let's put this in here. I'm going to do a number of images for and quality, I want it to be quite realistic. I'm going to put in this filter realistic vision one. See what comes up. And I'll press Prompt there. And at the same time I'm going to go to mid journey, not mid journey one, I'm going to imagine. I'm going to put it into here. I'm going to see what this comes up as well. I'm just curious if it's quite fun to play with two different programs, this one first with blue willow first it came back photo realistic. These are pretty good for actually, they could almost be photographs. You could really have played around with these a lot more obviously cut off the top of the head, which is classic. This character is not looking straight to the camera, this person is looking straight to the camera. These two you could play around with a lot more. What I did, I asked it to do just to regenerate again. You can see, you know, interesting, this guy could play around with a I like these ones. Feel what we going, maybe focus. Let's do some variations on four and see what comes up. Came over some variations here we can see the very slight. I asked to focus on this pretty good eye bit. We'll have to play around a bit with this guy. Yeah, I think it's okay. It's interesting. I played around a little bit more here. You can see I don't know what was going on here with this, comparing them both, I tried to give it a fair whack, but as I expected, playground came up with the goods from my perspective. Anyway, I spent a little bit of time playing around with various filters and stuff and it came up the first slight came up with definitely. Let's see what I came up with here. The first thing came up with I think were the best ones. Then I put on a different filter. I put on, let me try and get these filters up. I just want to show you the actual filters I used. I can show you this second. The second filter I used was this realistic one. Then I played around with different ones. Now this one I have no idea what was going on here. I mean, these are gorgeous images. Absolutely beautiful. But you know, it's absolutely nothing to do with the prompt. That was a fee that surprised me if it, yeah, okay, this cinematic one I thought thinking behind it was maybe it would make these characters like almost like from a film. Anyway, so I went down, came up with some various ones. I have no idea what was going on here. This is very weird. I don't know how this was a 20 year old and the toes are crazy, right? Anyway, a bit out of this one is the closest one to someone who would be a presenter. So I'm going to work on this guy a bit more. I think he looks pretty good. His eyes aren't too bad, there's nothing really weird. Teeth are a little bit big, but you know, I think this looks pretty realistic. He got bra acne, which is sort interesting that AI picked that up. So I'm going to work on this guy and see if we can really upscale this to be the presenter of this project that we're working on. The way that I would do this would be to generate some more images based on this until I find the one that I really, really want and then upscale it. I'm going to click on this option here, which is image to image. The images that are going to come are going to be based on this particular image. Now the other way that I could do this would be to, in fact, I'll show you this first. So what you can do is copy this seed number. Okay, Then we put that in there like that. Well, let me do more than one. You put the seed number in there, take off the random seed and you make sure the actual one. This here. I don't know if you let you do four variations of that particular seed. No, it doesn't, so it has to be just one. What you can do is just change one of these numbers slightly. So let's put nine is purely random and we'll see what it generates from there. Okay? As you can see, it's significantly different. So that wasn't very helpful. It's got quite a good look, though it's very cinematic. It looks more realistic than this. So that's sort of interesting. I mean, that could not quite, but it could almost be a photograph. But anyway, okay, what I'm going to do is just delete this because we don't need this. It's just going to be the distraction. So what I'm going to do is yeah, is image to image this. I'm going to keep it quite strong. Maybe around about 75. Generate four of them and sort of just see what variations it comes up with. If anything better than this that I can focus on. Okay, let's come back with some slight variations. If we compare them all together and we can zoom in and we can start to look and see the original one. His eye is a little bit dodgy. This one I think looks a little bit the eye still a little bit dodgy there. This guy Get rid of the a bit of a mess. Their eyes totally screwed up. Again. Here we click on that. We didn't do too well there. I don't think what we could do. We got a couple of options we could even keep generating more and more until we came up with one that was really happy. You could start to mess around with the, with this filter. We could start to even put on different filters just to see if we can get slightly better results. Let's try this realistic one again, I'm going to make it maybe, let's see what happens. We'll just try one more time and see what comes up. It's still frustrating because the eyes are just not quite right, are the curvature of the mouth looks like the Joker going on there. The eyes of dodge. It's really frustrating. It's really frustrating is that one little thing, But actually the filter, no thing, probably the original one, is actually still the best. Again, what you could do, change this a bit, to mention the eyes or the prompt. You could change the prompt a little bit more. But what I'm going to do, because of time, this is coming onto quite a long video. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in onto this guy and I'm going to mess around a little bit with his eyes and features. Using various tools to try and get him a little bit more realistic. And then I'll duplicate him again. Okay. I'll play around a little bit with it. I play around with the mouth. There was a few little things around the glasses that was annoying me. It's not 100% perfect, but I think it's going to have to do for the demo that we're doing here. But as you can see, you could spend a good hour on this until you've got the, the character that you are really, really happy with. What I'm going to do, I'm going to generate this person again, but I'm going to do it, I expect click on him image to image, going to do it 95 so it's not 100% this guy. I'm going to do much bigger, let me go. I'm still going to do four variations because I want to see what comes up. I'm going to do high quality and let's see what it comes up with. Okay, these are the four come up with that. They're all very slightly different. What I like is that the mouths seem to be a bit more realistic. Hasn't got that gray under the eyes. You can see there's stuff going on. The eyes are slightly weird. I think what we could do, again, play around with the eyes a bit more and change it. But again, this will be a long video. If you see me do that, I'm going to go for this guy I think is okay. We're going to do no. Click on the upscale four times and we're going to go for, it's just upscaling, Okay. And we download and we can see what it looks like, the result. Okay, this is the final one. And zoom in to 100% so we can really see the detail. It's 100 see, I don't know what's going on with the blood. Looks like some blood in the eyes. That's a bit disturbing, terrible quality. It's not too bad. I think from a distance like if he's presented the video like this, you can, he looks fairly realistic. Interesting to see, once we start to animate this character, how interacts in way he looks like. So there you go. There is how to sort of create your character. And as I said, you really should, if it's a character that you're going to use a lot, you really should spend a lot of time developing him or her or them and sort of seeing your results. I hope that was helpful. 12. Amazing Life Like AI Script to Voice: Now we've got our character. We need to give the character something to say. Now we're going to keep this example quite simple. We're going to do a simple monologue where is talking to the audience. Here we are again, chat BT And remember we've got this plug in that we use I spoke about in another video. We're going to put in script, we're going to create a Youtube script. So we're just going to go on that for now. I'm going to put in a simple subject. What is so socialism? What is socialism? Okay, Something, whatever. Only because I was looking at a book on my bookshelf and that's what made me think of this going through now. It is creating basically a video around socialism. Copy of the text. And I'm going to go back into here and I want to look at monologue, monologue dialogue generator put in there. And I'm going to put the Youtube video in there. And it should just create a very simple monologue that we can use. Okay, so what it's done, he's created it as a poem, but that doesn't really matter. Get a point across about the scripts that we're going to use basically. I'm going to leave that open now, and now I'm going to go and I'm going to generate the voice over for this. Okay, here I am at 11. Labs is absolutely amazing. Not quite, but almost perfect. I'll give you an example. I played around with this and I basically inputed my own voice. And it was really, really easy to do, very simple. And I sent a voice message to my partner. My partner was like, hey, you sound really weird but fine. My partner answered the query that I had in the message. Then I told that it was that it was an AI and they were quite freaked out. The one thing he got wrong because I'm from sort the Midlands in Britain. I pronounced my A's quite harsh, so I'll say glass or grass. Glass or grass. In my message, I basically said something like password but the AI pronounced it as, which I would never say it was like little things like that that gave it away. But if you're just doing a random video and animation and you're creating this character from scratch, so it's not based on a real voice. 11 Labs gives you the options of having lots of different voices. There's a whole voice library of ones it's already done. But you can alter these and you can also just create your own voice from here. It gives you these options, for example, story telling, et cetera to do. I've got the script that I did on chat GBT. I'm just going to put it in there. And now I just need to clean it up because we don't want stuff like this. Basically, when the voice reads this, things like explanation mark, it will pronounce that if you allow these settings to happen. If you have things in brackets, for example, it will pronounce those words in a different way. So I'm going to do, I'm just going to clean this up and show you what I've done after I finished that. Okay, I've cleaned up the script and where it had like a title like of socialism, I've put what other kinds of socialism. Try to make it a little bit more friendly. Now I need to pick which voice I think would suit the character. If you remember, the character is this young guy with scruffy black hair. I've got a few things here. I think this one British student might be okay. Let's listen to this. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. I like this one, this voice that I've used before. All I'm going to do is simply generate and see how it goes. Often takes a bit of a while just to generate this much text. So I'll pause the video and come back When you saw that, one thing I forgot to mention is that when you generate your voice, you can have various options here. Stability, clarity, enhancement, and style exaggeration. What I tend to do, I tend to leave it around about 10% style exaggeration. If you put it way up here, it's going to be like a children's TV presenter. Everything's over exaggerated. Down here, it feels more realistic. I have, this is 70. This option at about 30. And that seems to work fairly well for the voices that I've generated, generated this voice. Now it sounds pretty good. There's a few little things that if I was to be a real perfectionist, I would play around with. I'll leave the voice at the end of this video and you can listen to it if you want to. One thing I did want to point out just before we finish this video is the prices at the moment, at the time of recording, are very reasonable. You get 31,000 characters for $5 Your first month is basically $1 the price of a late. You can do pretty well even at this level. For $11 which is probably not far off the subscription of Amazon or something like that or Netflix. You get 100,000 characters. If you were doing, say, several videos or animations a month, this would probably cut here. Of course, it goes up as far as you go. If you was doing this professionally, maybe we're looking around about these. It's pretty good deal. For $5 it's for $1 It's worth playing around for a month. And just see how do you get on. Welcome back to our channel folks. Today we're diving deep into a topic that has sparked countless debates and discussions over the years. That's right, we're going to explore the concept of socialism. Grab your thinking caps, because by the end of this video, you'll have a solid understanding of what socialism is all about. But before we get started, make sure to hit that subscribe button and ring the notification bell, so you never miss out on our thought provoking content to begin with, let's break down the basics. What is socialism at its core? Socialism is an economic and political ideology that aims to create a more equitable and just society. It seeks to achieve this by redistributing wealth and resources, ensuring that everyone has access to basic necessities like healthcare, education, and housing. Now you might be wondering, what are the pros of socialism? Well, let me tell you one. Equality Socialism strives to reduce economic inequality by taxing the wealthy more heavily, providing social safety nets for those in need. Two, universal health care. In many socialist systems, health care is a right, not a privilege. This means everyone gets the medical care they need regardless of their income. Three, free education. Socialism often promotes free or heavily subsidized education, Making it accessible to all regardless of their financial situation. Four, workers rights. Socialist systems tend to prioritize workers rights, which can lead to fair wages and better working conditions. What about the cons of socialism? Of like any ideology, socialism has its drawbacks. One, economic efficiency Critics argue that heavy government intervention can stifle economic growth and innovation. Two, loss of individual freedom. Some say that socialism can infringe upon individual freedoms by imposing strict regulations and controls three, bureaucracy. In certain cases, the government's involvement can lead to bureaucratic inefficiencies. Let's look at some real world examples. Countries like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are often cited as socialist success stories. They have high taxes, but also offer robust social services. On the other hand, countries like Venezuela and Cuba have had more problematic implementations of socialism with economic and political challenges. In conclusion, socialism is a complex and multifaceted ideology with both pros and cons. It aims to create a more equal society, but can sometimes face challenges in implementation. What are your thoughts on socialism? Do you think it's a path to a fairer society or a recipe for government overreach? Let us know in the comments below. And don't forget to like and share this video if you found it informative. Also, make sure to subscribe for more enlightening content. 13. Adding AI Movement and Final Editing: Okay, so we've generated the script, we've generated a voice, we've generated an AI image of our character. Now we want to make that character move and talk like it's realistic. What we want to do is come to this website here called Do Terrible Name. Used to be really expensive. They recently dropped their prices. You can see here even if you just play pay monthly, the live version is again like $6 which is again an expensive coffee a month. It's quite a nice package to play around with. And you can create videos, you can do them for Youtube or something like that quite easily with the amount of credit that you get. And of course, if you got to the point where you're doing it more professionally, then you could upscale to these various prices, but it's pretty accessible. And again, it's definitely worth coming and setting up a free account and having a play. Quite good, fun. You can see some videos I've done here before. All you do is you basically come to create a video and you've got all these various options. Here are characters that have already been created. Bef you want your own unique one, you just simply add one here and then we have to upload it. Now I know what's going to happen if I click on this guy. First of all, we're going to get the background which we don't want but also it says here has to be ten MB for it to be able to upload. You can't upload a huge, big image. What I need to do is to shrink down this image. And I'm also going to take out the background. Now take out the background of an image is easy. You basically just search background because I purposely try to keep the background as clear as possible. You can just click on this one here, Remove background, upload the image, should just take it off without any problems. Ah, see it's streaming image. So I'm going to do, I'm going to play around streaming image and then come back to you once I've shrunk it to ten or less. Okay, I've managed to get our character uploaded. Basically what I did, I used a bit of a mash up of Photoshop and this website called Tinypng.com that crushes down images, which is a really helpful website to have in your box marks. Anyway, we have our character. Now we need to upload the voice that we downloaded. Now I'd just point out that the type your script here, the voices are, you know, they're just limited and they're not great. So that's why we use 11 labs. Instead, simply just upload the voice. Just give us back to our channel folks today we're diving deep into a topic that, okay, that's the one then we just simply go to generate video. Okay, so we'll just leave that to generate now. They'll take a little bit of time. Okay, so we've got the video. I don't know why it's done a black background. I've tried it twice and it keeps coming up a black background. But that's absolutely fine because in another program, we take out the background anyway, whatever color it is. For some reason I just prefer it to be white. But anyway, there you go. So it's not bad. Today we're diving deep into a topic that has sparked countless debates and discussions over the years. That's right, we're going to explore the, so that's not too bad. It looks like a nice easy animation. And what we could easily do is put that over the top of a video that maybe would have lots of images around socialism, that type of stuff. Once I download this, basically what I do, I go into this free program called Cut. What you can do is basically click on your image here, then you go to Cut Out and then auto cut out. Basically it just takes out the background. Then you can see I've just imported you like this random image. You can see that here. It's cut it out. It looks pretty good. So I'm going to do, I'm just going to create a very quick video just to show you how we could use this as animation, for example, in a Youtube video. Okay, so what I've done basically in cap cut, I cut out the character I added like this background. That was just a free clip I got when I googled socialism or communism. And I actually added a little filter just to blend this in. I actually added the bonhfer because I thought quite good because it's about communism and stuff. Welcome back to our channel folks. Today we're diving deep into a topic that has sparked countless. Yeah. My performance of my laptop is not going too well. Basically what I'll do, I will download this and put it at the end of this clip, this video, so you can watch how it's turned out, but you can see as a basic animation, it looks pretty good. Entertaining would be quite a good presenter. You could use this very much a say, for example, Youtube videos or education videos I think works particularly well. Anything that involves presenting it pretty less than $10 a month to produce something like this. Which I think is pretty good considering the technology that we have. If you remember the script from using AI, we generated this character using AI. Did the voice using AI. We merged the animation and the voice together. And that was with AI. Really, this last step is the last part of this whole process where we haven't utilized AI. That's pretty cool. 14. Introduction to Project Three - Advanced: Okay, finally, we are on project three. Project three is obviously a lot more advanced. That's the whole point, I guess. A really interesting project to do. We'll be using quite a lot of the same tools, introducing a few new ones. We'll be starting off with the usual GBT and prompts, but we're going to develop a much more advanced script and we're going to be using that script for separate scenes. We're going to potentially put all of this into air table. If that's a tool that you like or your own tool, that's absolutely fine, but you can see how I do it. We're going to be using the usual 11 labs to generate a voice over, then we're also going to be using playground AI or blue willow, whichever one you prefer. In developing characters and scenes that we've put that we've generated. Fritch, UBT, and we use a table. We're then going to be using a tool called Pka I movement in those scenes. Much more advanced movements. And I'm also going to show you how to get past the limitations of Pka in the length of each scene that you can generate. How to use that. Then we're going to be putting all that into Cap Cut or again your own software that you prefer to use. And then we're going to be finding some free background music that that has been generated through chat GBT to use some ideas there. And then using that into Cap Cut as well. And developing a much more advanced AI generated animation as usual. Make sure that you share your projects. Make sure that you follow along and that you put that project into this chat to share with the other members of the community. Be really interested to see what comes out of this. This is a really exciting level of animation that can be generated and I'm sure there can be some really stunning pieces of work. 15. Ideas and Inspiration for Our Projects: Okay, so when we come to our next project, it's really helpful if we have a style in mind of the type of animation that we want to do. This is helpful if we input this into our prompts. Chachibt can help us to develop a specific type of animation. And by having this particular style, like Dream Works or Studio Gibli, something like that, then that sort of helps the overall AI process. It may be worth spending a little bit of time just going through various animation styles, thoughts, studios styles, for example, like say Disney or Pixar, something like that. And then we can use those in our prompts. Now, I've always liked the Gorillas style of animation. It's very weird, slightly hand drawn, a little bit creepy. I'm going to focus a little bit on this, which is blinking. What we want to do is come up to Chachi BT gain. Remember plug ins that we have the IPR plug in, make sure that's input it and then just type in animation here. And then we'll come to this prompt here which is deforum prompt generating. And we're not going to use deform in this particular tutorial because it's really complicated to install on your computer. So we're going to stay away from this, but it's quite a helpful prompt to use. Let's just click on there. I've already written down here, so I'm just going to copy of that. Put that here. Let's show you what I give me a prompt for a music generated AI in the style of Blink Inks, Gorillas, music videos that will generate scenes of 4 seconds. Each scenes will come together to tell a short story of a take out a student living in a university in Bristol, UK. That's where I am based, that's why I'm focusing in urban, dark, cyberpunk, dystopia future. I'm just going to copy of that here as well. Okay, And let's see what this comes up with. Okay, so saying please let me know how long you want the video to be in seconds now. I just want to, let's just do a 60 sex. Let's just do a 1 minute and see what comes up. Okay, so we've got a story here which seems pretty good to me. A panamic view of Bristol's futuristic urban landscape. Towering neon skyscrapers, bustling streets, flying vehicles, cyberpunk, et cetera. And it gives this prompt here, which I'm assuming this is to do with the program that this is particularly written for, that we're not going to be using. But we can use a prompt inside the room. Our protagonist, a student is studying on a harlographic desk, et cetera. So basically, it's got this story about Chase car, Chase conspiracy theory, that type of stuff. Now, the next prong I want to use is I wanted to put in put sound effects to each scene. What this will do, obviously will add more details to the scenes, but also it will dig down a little bit more detail. Okay, so we can see the first scene which is like a panoramic view if you are a member of the city. Ambient city sounds, distant traffic, futuristic hum technology, et cetera. Now what we can do now is ask for music. Now add style idea type to each scene. Okay, it's kept in the sound effects which is helpful style. Cyberpunk, electronic music idea, futuristic, background, ambient. Okay, we added these things that we can use going forward if we need to. 16. Storing and Sorting The Amination Elements: So we've got all this information now about an idea for a animation. Obviously, we don't want to leave it in here because you can easily get lost. And you know, you can open those more tabs and forget where it is where I love to store this type of information. And where that works for me is I love airtable air table for me. Just such a great way to keep a handle on this sort of information. So what I've done, I've gone through the scenes and I've put all the scenes in this column here in the. I've put all the prompts here, so we've got that information. Sound effects, music styles. I've, I've also said to chat GBT second. I just simply said writes the script for scene. Just got all this information. Again, we've got tons of information that we can start to use. I've put those in here like this, you can scripts, then I've put the music style in here as well. So we've got all that information. This is not a tutorial about how to use table, If you like this sort of layout and you've never used Airtable, then just go on Youtube or somewhere you'll find tutorials on how to use it. But this is a really good way and say I can just open one of these here and it's got all the information. If I wanted to, I could add another field where I could attach single images if I wanted a reminder of how it would all be laid out. Let's do that now. Actually, just so I can p I can show you this. I've, I've done the first one here. So what we're going to do is I'm just going to call this still. I'm going to add that as an attachment. I do want it as an image, have it as an attachment. So we do that now. And then I'm going to browse to where I've made my first image. I wonder if it'll Let me add this can actually let me add the animations that I've done, which you'll see in the later video, which is helpful. But what I actually want is just a still image. Then if I show you here, it should show up. You can see here showing up. If I want to expand it, I go to this expand here, then that's a really good way just ahead of all the images and stills that we have and say we could also attach to the animation. So we could watch the animation with airtable just to keep a handle on a of and the order of how we're progressing. The other way that we could do this in air table is go to Gallery and add a gallery view. And then we just click on there. And as you can see that pops up really nicely there as well. So we could keep ahead of how we're getting on. That's just a simple way that we can order all of sort of animation and where we're at in this process. 17. Using AI to Generate Images and Inspiration: Now this is where we start to generate some images for our moving animation. We've got these prompts here. I basically decided that what we want to do is to expand on these prompts. And of course what you can do is to go to one of the prompts again, Let's go to Mid Journey. And we'll click on Mid Journey. Then what we can do is take that in and we can put that into mid journey. We can add some other elements to this to really try and expand upon it. Here ma, in 16 by nine, because I wanted to be able to play, for example, on Youtube Ultra HD, Super resolution. Let's see what type of thing this comes back with, what type prompts it develops. Okay, this isn't so good, it's not really recognized Bristol. So what I would do here is I'll take this again, put it in here. And maybe if I put in Bristol, UK, futuristic could put that there. I also want to put in something around the, some key landmarks for Bristol for this particular thing. So, are there balloons and okay, these are, these are two landmarks in Bristol which I particularly want in there. So this comes back with, with this. Okay, it's recognized in Bristol now, which is good. Sometimes you just have to give you a help in hand. The breathtaking area view, Macestic air balloons above Clifton Suspension bridge, spin the Avon Gorge that is part of Bristol as well, futuristic urban landscape with towering in the Onley. This is Cyber Park, illustrated by cinematic. I mean that is a particularly good prompt there for what I'm looking for. I also want to put in, let's see if it comes back with this. I want the style of the Gorillas music video drawing from the inspiration of Envisage a para view of. Yeah. I mean, that is really close to what I would be looking for. So I've got a prompt here which I've been playing around with myself, which is a mixture of this and another prompt and what I'm going to do. I'm going to go into playground because this is my preferred AI creation. Now I show you here that I've actually been playing around with this a little bit myself, but I'm going to show you how I got here. So basically I played around with these. I added some of the filters here. I used this one neon merch. I didn't quite like this. I much prefer this sort staff and this is like dreamy and weird. I'm going to show you how I got there. I start again. We're going to go here and I'm going to put in this prompt, which I've been playing around with, so I'm curious to see what will happen. Four of these. I'm going to take this off because I don't particularly like this one, so I'm going to take off any other filters, I'm not going to add any. Definitely want to take that off. There's nothing here. Let's see what it generates. Okay. What's interesting, I played around with a couple of prompts. See this particular look and feel compared to these are what I really like. What I'm going to do is click on quite like this. Maybe I'll click on that. Let's go, I'm going to use that as a basis of the image. Let's take this down here. But I'm going to keep the same prompt again. I want something like that. Just so it's that look and feel to it. Let's see what it comes up with. Let's check this, okay? Okay. Let's see whether it gets a little bit closer to what I'm looking for. Okay, Let's come up with some nice ones. I like this. This looks a suspension bridge that what I'm going to do is go for this one. I'm going to generate again here. So it comes up with, I may, do I want to change any of this? I don't think so. So I'm going to let that I may take out this style because what it's not doing, I think it's clashing between the gorillas. Prompt and this. I think it's confusing. So I'm going to take this out. So what it comes up with using that, you see, basically I'm I'm just playing around with different prompts, different styles, seeing what sort of comes up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. And that's just how you start to learn how to generate these things. Okay, I'm just going to settle on this one for now. It's not exactly what I would be looking for, but I do like it. I think it's really interesting style sort animation style. So what I'm going to do is generate this to a much higher quality. So the way I would do that would be basically I'm going to take this here, regenerate that but make it larger and then quantity. Actually, what I could do is do the prompt. I'm going to do the prompt guidance one last time. I think just to see what it comes up with. I'm just curious. I like it. I'm going to do very close. Just see if it comes up. Feel a little bit. Take this out, I don't want to overlap that. Do one more and then we'll see, then we'll settle. That's the problem with this. You can get really sucked down into I just want to change this. I just want to change, I'll take that into that out and you spend a lot of time doing that. It's really helpful if you have a very clear idea of exactly what you want. And then you can edit it and take out the various sort of things that you don't like or spend a very long time doing it. Let's have one more look. They're all very similar anyway. Yeah, I feel gonna just settle on this for now, so go for that, looking at zoom out, tell it in there, quality is fairly high. Then we go pro kind, make it very high like that. I only want one else, It'll take a long time to generate. Okay, so let's let this generate now. Okay, so this is what we've settled on. What I'm going to do is download it now in a higher quality, and then I'll show you in the next video how we can get this to start to move. 18. Using AI to add Movement to Your Images: Now once we've got our scene that we want to edit, what we need to do then is to use AI to automatically create movement within that first scene. So we're going to use Picker Labs because, well, it's free. And the whole point of this tutorial is to try and teach you how to do it as free as possible. As you can see, some of the results from the page is pretty cool. So you just go to join and basically it'll bring you to this dial up box where you can join and it's another Discord server. And basically this little cute fox Fing. What you want to do is go to citations. And one of one of these generate I'm just random one. Again, you can go through backwards to look at some of the types of images and scenes that people have done. The way that we do it here is we click on the basically Create to Create prompt. So it's a little bit different. What you can do is basically just put in basically the same prompt that you used to generate your image before we can here, we can just copy that. Put that in there. But we're going to take out basically take out the parameters. You don't need to put in the parameters with this particular one. And I've put in what I want to change. Once you've done this, you basically want to click on the plus one. And that will basically allow you to upload the image that you generated in AI that we were based on here. Make sure if you're going to use playground, make sure that you download this once you've downloaded it, then upload it to peek, and then let's see what happens. Okay, so what we'll do here is we've got notifications on here, so we click on notifications, we go to Mentions, and we can sort of see that it's generated something. We can just go there on that and see what's coming out with. Okay'sy, Good, right, People are moving. It's been animated perfect. What we can do of course, is regenerate it and see what else it comes up with. And then pick maybe the best of three or four for example, generated another one here. Let's have a look at that. I realize that the cars, moving people are moving. There's a weird thing going on there, don't mind, because I think it adds to the weird aesthetic of this. What I'm going to do, I'm just going to download this. That's going to be the first scene in here. What I will then do is generate the second scene, which of course will have a person in it. You can follow along with the next few videos where I'm going to do the similar type of process, but it's basically going to be generating a picture of a person as well in the scene. 19. Making Clips Even Longer with AI: Okay, so one of the drawbacks of Pk A is obviously you only get however many seconds, what's that forced? 3 seconds a footage which is sort annoying and probably not going to be the length of your particular scene. Now one option is of course a clip like this, you could just slow down in your film if it's more of a setting the scene. But if you've got something like someone speaking, then that's a bit more problematic and a bit more tricky. Now one way that you can hack this is it's a little bit of a FF, but again it's free and it's AI and compared to traditional animation is a lot quicker. So what we can do is use a program like cap Cut. That's what I use because it's free and pretty good. You import your clip that you've downloaded, okay, then you drag it onto this main area. Here you go, right to the end. You just do one space back there. And then what you want to do is export. Basically you're exporting the very last frame of your animation. So you just go to this little thing here, export still frame. I'm just going to call us one. Just put that on my desktop for now. I know it's very lazy and unprofessional, but make sure it's all the correct settings and export. Then what you want to do is come back to Pka and copy the prompt again. I've lost my space to create. Then we put in basically exactly the same prompt as we had before. And then we go to the plus one symbol, and we go to Image, and we go to Upload, and we go to the lazy place where I left my image still one PNG, and then we go, okay, here we go. So then we obviously download this image, okay, and we come back to capcut or whatever program you're using. And we'll just import the downloaded again. I put it on here and we'll see how it is now. It's not going to be 100% perfect, so we might have to play around a little bit. But let's see. So we go, well, that is actually very close. Try again. I can't see any fluctuation there. We've got now what's that about 6 seconds footage for? Not that much work, really. There we go. Okay. We've got that. We can take this logo out quite easily, we can play around with that, but we've got our first potential opening scene. 20. Removing Watermarks: Okay, over the next series of videos, as I show you how to put together the animation, you'll see that I have some challenges regarding the watermark. It becomes more of a challenge as you sort of duplicating and taking steals and stuff like that. What I could have done before I started recording those videos was to tell you how to get rid of the watermark. It wasn't until after I finished doing the videos, I was like, this got to be an easy way of doing this I did a bit of research on how to get rid of this watermark, especially if you're going to be using this method for clients or at a more professional level. Really, the best tool that I seem to have found is this one, which is a media, and it's a video watermark remover. Okay, now this whole package, it does cost. So you've got a monthly plan here of $20 No watermark ironically, and access to all the AI tools. It's a pretty good package. So you may want to just sign up for this anyway. But with the watermark removal, you do get some, um, some of it's limited for free, if that makes sense. So, the first thing you want to do, obviously, you just sign up for the free trial. Just go to that. Okay. So once you're in, you can just copy Dragon. Drop your clip that you want to, Tim. Let me do it. Okay, we'll just go in and upload it now. So just upload that and then I'll show you when it's uploaded. Okay, it's all you need to do is you've got this brush here, so you just want to like brush over. And you want to keep it as close to the logo as possible, so you want it as blurring as possible. This is not 100% perfect. It's pretty good. But it's just using I, of course. There may be a little bit of blurring still from this, but let's see what it comes back with. After this, you just click Remove object now. Okay, just come back. As you can see here is not 100% perfect. Okay, it's still a little bit, it looks like, you know, I don't know. 21. Write Effective AI Art Prompts: Okay with this part. We're going to go to scene two. We want to now create a character. I'm going to try and make this character start to move. It slips to a script. In this next scene, there's not specifically a script. Maybe try to make the character talk to the camera or something like that. We'll see how we get on. I'm wanting to follow my process, really. My goal is to have this character here that we worked on before in this environment. This character in this environment, these colors look and feel. We're going to use GBT to help us with the prompt for this. We're going to go to the mid journey prompt generator. Again, I'm going to do a pink if it's mash up of the prompt that we use for this person. We've got the prompt over here that we used. We're going to just copy this here for now. I'll edit it in the second. I want this prompt as well here. In fact, I'm not going to use this. Let me use a different program because it's quite a long prompt. So I'm just going to just use this as a scrapbook. I guess for now this is the this person. Then I also have this description here of what chat BT came up with. So I'm going to put this in. I'm also going to put in this as well. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go through this now, clean it up a bit and then put it into chat BT and see what it comes up with. Okay, this is what I've kept atmospheric fog adding to an area of mystery, futuristic technology at play. The scene catches the essence of cyberpunk. I'm keeping these parameters as well, trying to get the same look and feel. 20 year old man smiling, blue eyes, messy hair, scruffy retro glasses. And I'm keeping all this, I'm going to take out this now. Okay, we're going to use this prompt. Put this into where are we put into mid journey prompt and see what it comes up with. So let's come up with a few interesting ideas. Not necessarily something that stand out to me. It's focusing a little bit more on the idea of a J here. It's got a hackers, some Oer stuff here. What I could do is take a few of these elements and put it back into the problem that we had, which I've now, here we go, play with this a little bit more myself. And then put it into playground and see what comes up. So I'm going to do that now. Okay. So what I did, I actually decided to try again, some slightly different prompts. And I took this text again and I just played around with it. I put the character first and then the atmosphere, which I think works a lot better. And it came up with this, which is some really good requirements here as well, which I quite like. I like it when it does that. Because you don't always understand what Sony Alpha seven is. I have no idea, but it seems to work well. Basically what I did, I then put it, I basically took, this was the important part, these images that I use for the opening scene, if you remember this. Because I wanted to keep this look and feel color. I put it into the, based on that image in the image strength there, basically clicked on that image to image, then I went. And it's not always easy to navigate around. This app basically generated these, basically. Just put in for weak quality, low quality. Because I just want to generate quickly quite small image. Try 38, and he came up with these. I like these. I think it matches the look and style and feel like this one. This one really stood out to me. Let's say I thought this was really good. Really in line with what I was thinking about. I think that could be a student dorm in the future. This guy, he looks like a young protagonist. I think I did. What was going on there? That was sort of fun. I like this image. I like this image. Maybe this would be the image I could come back to later on for another one. This is okay. What do I think with this? I may just generate another four and see what happens if what else it gives me. Let's strength up may mess around with a little bit. Prompt guidance. I'm more prompt guidance and just see what it comes up with. I think that's the best way to use this program is just even if there's one that you really like, play around with some more, then you can image to image. I'm going to try see what comes up and then I'm going to probably come back to this I assume, and do image to image and then play around with this. This hasn't worked. Basically what it's done is relied too much on this, which is my fault. What I could do, Maybe I'll do one more. I'll take it down, leave the prompt guidance and just see what comes up. These are good. I like the images. This one I particularly like I think can work on, They look like a student that definitely looks like a student accommodation in the future. I prefer this one. I think it's more in line with this looking feel that we're having for the animation. Really like this. What I'm going to do here is going to do image to image zout, let's put that there. And we're going to put the guidance quite high and see what it comes up with. Again, I want it to be quite high here. Basically what I'm going to keep doing is keep going for this process, playing around the settings, and I'll come back when I've got something that I'm settled on. I like this, I'm going to go for this. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to blow up to the highest quality I can download it. And then we're going to go to the next steps of animating it, and then putting over a basic script. 22. Protagonist AI Movement: So what I've done, I've done the image again, and I've made the width and the height more in line with the movie Youtube. I whack the quality of the image up as high as possible. I can't see it on here now. That would be on here. There we go. The quality and detail, as much as you would allow me just to try and get the best possible detail, I just did one image rather than doing four because I didn't need that. The upscale by four times. Then this is what is produced when I've downloaded it. As you can see, it's really nice quality. You can see the, the lips there and stuff. So if he's right in still, even at that right about there, it starts to degrade. So that's almost 400% It's really high quality. I realize as I zoomed in that the glasses were a little bit off. If I was doing this for real, I would go back into playground and just clean up the glasses a bit, make them more realistic. I guess you could have that. It's meant to be futuristic, maybe who knows. But other than that I realize it's I'm going to do now is going to peck comes Pka. This is the prompt that I've put in. I've kept basically the same prompt as we've been using for this development. But the things I've changed this here, this is what I ideally want to get to. His lips move in because I want basically to put a script where he basically doing his homework or whatever and he's just saying something like, I've been here a year, I feel really lonely in Bristol or something like that. Just to start the story of I want static noise movement on the screen. So it looks as though the screens are real neon lights flickering, some neon lights in the bedroom. I just want that flickering effect. It looks very cyber punky. I want in against the window and lights going past the as a car goes past, light outside, as a car goes past. I want some that basically, I don't know, always going to come up with whether it'll be realistic. I say what I tend to find with P is that you have to generate quite a few times to get what you want. It can be a little bit time consuming unless the first one is right. So what it might come back with, I suspect is like the lips not looking quite right, then we have to just keep playing around and editing it and seeing what we can do. So let's see what this comes up with and we'll see how realistic or what I want it, it will be. Okay. So I've been playing around with this a little bit more. And initially, I had this weird situation where it kept making the guys glasses disappear for no apparent reason. There was nothing in my prompt, I said take the glasses out. So that was really frustrating. I ended up generating a few where it just kept doing the same as you can see there. Eventually, I redid the whole things from scratch rather than just re did the whole things from scratch and eventually kept it in. This is quite good. I like this one. I wish his lips were moving a bit more. I think if I was really working at this as a project, I would focus a bit more on the, I don't know. I would do something around the lips to make that more of a key thing. Maybe what I'd do, it would just be lips moving. That would be the prompt for that. What I did after that, I then just took the end of this frame and then generated one. And you can see it panning across. I did that again on the only problem when you do this that you'll see is this. What you need to do is were very end frame which would be about this, then you just have to take out this prompt, blur it somehow or make it disappear and then regenerate it and it won't have that problem. But I was just wanting to put something together quite quickly. If I'll show you what I've generated so far, what I've done is I've zoomed in on here just to take out the water mark. I've slowed this opening clip down. I really like this style. I know it's it foggy London type of thing. And we go to the Carter. I zoomed in a little bit again to take out the water mark. You can see it goes across, it does appear there, which is frustrating. There is a thing with the papers as you can see there. There's a slight glitch of the papers again, I would probably go back and regenerate that just to take that out, but that's okay. Let's watch this again. So you can see now in the next video what' do is then just had some voice, maybe because his lips aren't moving for this particular scene. I'll Do you know where he's thinking to himself about a situation, some background music, using the prompts that we saw at the beginning of this particular tutorial that I put into airtable. Then what we'll do, we'll have basically the opening little scene of this animation. 23. Adding Music and Sound Effects and Finished Project: Okay, let's start off by having a look at the final cut of what I've put together. And then after you've seen the video, then I'll explain roughly how I put it together. In the dark alleys and neon lit streets of Bristol. The future has taken root. The city scape is a symphony of steel and glass, Where towering skyscrapers pierce the night sky and flying vehicles weave through the urban canyons. Okay, so if you remember this spreadsheet that I did in air table, now when I've come to put the final sound effects and background music and all that type of stuff in the edit, then this is what I would go to for inspiration. And if you remember, we generated all this using a GBT, That's all the information that I put in. Now of course, if this was a professional project, something that I was doing to really show off to the world, then I would obviously filled all this information to continue down using this, a lot more detail, adding information into this as I'm updating or improvising. I've used this now basically what I'm using caput because it's just really simple and free. I can't afford a premia, which I would use if I was doing this again professionally. I've used Adobe Premier in the past, and I absolutely love it, and I wish I could afford it. But anyway, basically Cap Cut is a really good free way of doing this. And basically the folders for the various scenes that correlate with what I've got in air table. If I was doing the whole of this animation from start to finish, put all this all the way down, then if you go into each one of the, you'll see then I've put all the various elements in there, all this as well. Okay, Which is just a way of organizing it then basically I've then come and go free sound clips. I'm not going to go through every single possible way that you could get free sound clips, but there's this site where you can get often some sounds. I basically just typed in Cyberpunk. Pixabay is a good one. Where did I get this one? I got this particular one, this website here, com I think pronounce. I'm not quite sure that was quite a good one. I got lots of the sound effects also from Youtube studio where there's tons of free music and sound. I got like the traffic please siren the background. I just typed in Cyber Punk and this came up on, it was actually the very first one I found. It was really good background for this particular type of look and city escape. The 11 Labs was basically what I did, the voice over four. I just used one called student two, which is quite good. These are the settings I used for this particular one. Then I just put in the script, the script we could have generated at the beginning of when we put it all together and then put it, put it into a table. Basically all I did was basically went back to, I don't know what they call this, the prompts history. And I just give me a short monologue script for scene one and it came up with this, which is quite good. I actually quite like the script it came up with is quite good and then put it in edited. I'm not going to go in how I edited because this is not a video editing course. Okay. But, you know, I slowed this down a little bit so it fitted. I took the music down and stuff like that and I think it was okay. I mean, this is obviously really rough. I mean, there's lots of little things like this. This annoys me. The fact that it's got this here that really triggers me. What else would I do differently? I would have had here I was, I was going through this, I was thinking if I was doing this really high end, I would do some stills of city life like rubbish, trash on the floor, homelessness, poverty, the roughness of city life, some flying cars, stuff like that. Here, I would, you know, edit this a little bit more. Maybe some siren lights flashing through the windows, that type of stuff. Maybe a scream outside just to really exaggerate this rough city and then maybe go to little stills of the bedroom, like on the bookshelf, what books are on the bookshelf, That type of stuff. You can really spend so much time in this, but I think considering that we've only used free tools except for 11 labs Right. Which is really cheap. But the actual animation itself, the images, the animation, the sound effects, even this editing software, considering all free, I think this is pretty good. Yeah, that's how I put tools together, that's how I got all the background music. Using all these free tools, that is the finished product, I obviously could have carried on and done the whole of the animation. I think it was like ten different scenes. That would take me a very long time for this video and it would be really boring for you to watch and it would be a really long course. You don't need to see the whole thing. You can still see the finished product of the first two opening scenes, and what I've come up with.