Create Animated Children’s Video Stories with AI

1. Welcome to Your Creative Journey!: What if I told you that you could learn to create animated children's video stories like this without spending a dime. Ollie loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along just hiding and laughing. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Really? Let me try. Uh huh, stop. I can't take it. Ha ha ha. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Hi, I'm Professor M higazi and I'll be your instructor for this course. Designed to take your creativity to a whole new level. Together, we'll unlock the secrets of crafting magical animated children's stories. In this course, we'll start by crafting narrated children's stories just like these. With a heart full of happiness, the little explorer entered the green jungle. His laughter mixed with the sound of the leaves rustling. Uh a loud h. Startled, it bounced through the air, calling him to find out where it came from. There, in a burst of giggles lay a creature of dreams, a joyful triceratops with laughter spilling from every corner. In her cozy nook, a curious dreamer slipped into slumber. Stars twinkled outside, whispering secrets of adventure. She awoke to a wondrous scene. Before her stood a gentle giant, its coat thick and warm. It beckoned with inviting eyes. Welcome to the Land of kindness, the majestic Beast exclaimed. Joy danced all around a melody of sharing and love. Eagerly, she began to share her treasures. The air buzzed with gratefulness. Happiness thrived as gifts exchanged hands like flowers. And that's only the beginning. I'll guide you step by step to transform these stories into fully animated creations. You'll learn to animate characters, add lip sync voiceovers, background effects, and so much more. The best part will harness the power of AI to do it all. Animated children's stories are a booming trend in content creation. They ignite joy, inspire young minds, and can even educate. Here's what you'll learn how to build and design story scripts and character personalities using chat GPT and other AI tools. Create narrated children's stories using art flow AI, all in one platform that takes you from scripting to final video exportation. Design consistent in captivating static characters for your stories. Enhance your stories by animating characters, producing realistic voiceovers with 11 labs AI, syncing voices with runway ML and Kling AI. And piecing it all together in Canva. I'll also show you how to use Canva to polish your video stories, adding background effects, transitions, subtitles, and even removing watermarks. And here's the cherry on top. You'll learn how to do all of this using free AI tools. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to create your very first animated children's video story. Let's embark on this creative journey together and bring light and imagination to children's lives with AI animated video stories. 2. Creating Story Ideas with ChatGPT for Your First Project: Going to begin a course by diving right into it. Basically, what we're going to do is we're going to study and learn about how to generate story ideas for procuring sophisticated stories for children in a way that can relate to children. Now, whether you're a parent, an educator or you're a content creator, the course is extremely beneficial. And it's because you'll be able to take AI generated ideas and transform them into real live animations. So let's get right into it. We're going to start with the first video lesson here talking about how to leverage AI chatbots for story generation ideas. Now, you can certainly as a content creator or even as a parent or an educator, you can come up with your own story if you really wanted to, right? I mean, you can just simply grab a piece of paper and a pencil and just start writing it down or typing it into Microsoft Word. But we have a new methodology that we can implement, and that's with the utilization of artificial intelligence. So what you can essentially do is you can go to chchpt.com and I'll provide the link or an equivalent chat bop. That will serve the same purpose, and you can simply request or prompt Chat GPT to provide you ideas, so generative ideas on children's stories, right? So stories that children can relate to. So we can start with a very generic prompt and then we can build on that. Now, we're going to do something like this. You can say provide starts with something simple. Provide five children story ideas. They can be different genres of children's stories, whether it's like bedtime, children's stories or another kind genre, you can certainly just specify that if you want. But right now, we're just going to try something very generic. And see what it gives us. Now, the first thing it does is it says it's providing you five unique children's story ideas. One is called the Time Traveling paintbrush. We have Freddie and the floating Forest, Ella and the pocket sized Dragon, the star that lost its twinkle, Max, and the machine that made mistakes. So those are five ideas that you can start working off of, right? Now, if you like those or if you like any of those, you can certainly pick one. Let's say you wanted to provide Chat TPT more of a direction, right? So say, for instance, you wanted a children's story that has to do with an extinct animal, right? Something that's a little bit more educational, maybe something that includes an animal which children may fear, but you take that character, right, that animal whether it's an extinct animal or an endangered animal or what have you, and convert it into a friendly character, right? So you can do something like that. Let's say the following provide five unique story ideas on a young boy, for instance, who befriends a friendly, extinct animal. The reason why we want to be a little bit more specific is because you have to think about it this way. If you're a content creator, you're going to find a lot of people generating the same types of prompts if they're submitting generic prompts, right? So if you just enter into GPT, hey, give me ten story ideas, right? It's going to give you pretty standard story ideas. But if you want to kind of specify details, it will help to sort of focus in on a more unique narrative. Now, this is what I'm looking for, and I want to say, the story will be fully narrated. Okay. So that's something that is a feature that I want available for the story that I'm looking to supply here. Alright, so here is a little bit more specific. So Benji and the last mammoth. We have Tommy and the gentle Sabretooth, okay, Leo, and the dodo who dreamed to fly. So this is a lot better. Ollie and the laughing dinosaur. Okay, so these are really cool ideas. We can probably pick one of these. I think for now, I'll probably either go with, you know, this one, Tommy, and the gentle Sabretooth. But then, again, you know, you got to kind of think about it. Children love dinosaurs, right? So maybe we could go with something like this, something like Ollie and the laughing dinosaur. So it's basically a child, a boy, and a friendly triceratops called Trix so maybe that would be a good one, right? So you can go off of something like that. We're going to go ahead and go with this. And I like the name Ollie because I have been skateboarding for many years of my life, so the name kind of resonates with me, and I think it resonate with a lot of children as well. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to go to, um, a tool called Tiny WOW. I'll provide the link for this as well. And when you get to TinyWOW, I want you to type in story generator in the search box there. When you do that, it's going to basically give you this AIR tool. You're going to click on it. And once you get here, you have a topic, okay? You have a topic box here, an input box. And this story generator is really helpful because what it will do is it'll take an idea. The maximount of characters that you can enter in for your idea is 60 characters, so it's limited. But when you do enter your topic idea, it's basically going to generate a story for you. Now, we can have Chat GBT do that for us, but I do want to show you an alternative tool here so you can pick and choose what you like. So we kind of already have a summary of a story, but we're going to go ahead and just try and see what happens when we use the AI story generator here, Tiny WOW. I'm going to pick two paragraphs, no more than that, let's go ahead and click Generate. Alright? So it generates fairly quickly, but it's going to go ahead and give us a full story about a boy, Ollie, and laughing dinosaur. Okay, so while it's doing that, oh, okay. That was fast. So here we go. We have a story once upon a time in a land far far away, there live a young boy named Ali blah blah blah, all the way till the end here. So this is really good. I like it. I mean, I'm just kind of breezing through it here. But yeah, we can copy basically this whole thing right here, and we can then leverage Chet GBT further, right? So you can kind of use Chet GBT and the AI story generator Tiny WOW together, if you wish. Or you can work with Chet GPT separately. All depends on what you want to do. So if you like this summary, you can go with it. If you like this, you can go with that as well, okay? All depends on what you want to do. Right? So I'm going to go with something like this. I'm going to kind of mix it all together and say, take number four and use this story instead. Okay, or we can say, use these story details instead. So that's a little bit more specific. And then what I want to ask is refine the story so that it's more educational, uses simpler words and includes only a narrator articulating the story. Okay. So here's the refined version. So here's the narrated story. All right. So this is great. It's just a little long. So I'm going to say this. The story is too long. Please make it shorter with no more than let's say ten basic story lines being narrated. Something simple. That's much better. Alright, so we're looking for something like this, right? Okay. Something where we can take, make a story out of it, include subtitles and so on. Okay. Yeah, so we can certainly work with this right here. And now what we're going to do is in our next video, we're going to take this story and apply it in the art flow AI platform. So Art flow is a great tool. I'll talk more about it in the next video lesson where we'll take this story and actually start making a video out of. 3. Getting Started with ArtFlow to Create Your Character Personalities: All right. So now that we've actually generated our story, Ollie and the laughing dinosaur, with the help of Chat GPT and Tiny WOW's story generator tool, what we can do now is we can take the next step. So I'm going to introduce you to an all in one AI solution platform, and this platform is known as rtflow AI. Great tool. I love using it myself. Now, let me introduce you to this platform, tell you a little bit more about it so we can familiarize and move forward. Now, this platform does a couple of things. You have on the left side here, it's a panel of different options. The first one here as you can see is an actor Builder option. That's if you want to build an influence or an actor. If you click on it, you can see that you can build different types of actors, right? Um, under Image studio, we're going to be using this in the course, actually, but this is once you have generated images. I'll talk about that later in the course. For video studio, you can actually generate videos where you can have a character speaking directly to the camera. Obviously, an AI generated character, such as an AI presenter, it could be any type of character based on the genre that you select. Then you have the story of studio, which we're going to be using as well. Now, as you know, I like to promote free tools. I always mentioned this in all my courses. Art flow AI is a free tool initially. At least it comes with a limited number of credits that you can use upon signing up. So what you can do is log in, create an account, and you can simply use your Google as I've done, or you can use your email address. Now, once you do that, it basically gives you 100 credits for free. As you can see here, I have 100 credits. You can certainly upgrade. So in my personal preference, I would say depending on how much credits you are looking to retrieve and use, you can certainly purchase more credits. The free basic plan gives you 100 credits. That allows for four minute videos from store studio or two minute videos from video studio. Isn't bad if you're trying it out and you're testing waters, trying to see if this is the right platform for what you're intending to do, whether it's putting up children's bedtime stories on YouTube or creating little clips of children's stories and putting them on Instagram or Tik Tok, whatever it may be, or advertisements, whatever it is. So essentially, you can try it. And if you like it, you can get a plan. So I personally might be moving forward with the startup plan. Looks like it gives me 300 credits per month, 12 minutes video from Story Studio or 6 minutes video from video studio, which aren't too bad. And it also gives me some of these other features here. Now, I would advise that you try it out first, see how you like it, and if you feel like this is the right tool for you, then you can select the plan as you wish, okay? But you do have the free option to begin with, and we're going to utilize that in the course. All right, so now that we've looked at the platform, let's move on. So as you know, we've generated a story idea. We looked at several ones. Some of them were generic initially, and then we kind of tweaked them down. Now we're at a point where we have a story script, right? And the story is called Ollie and the laughing dinosaur. It's meant to illustrate sort of a friendly type of dinosaur and Ollie befriending this dinosaur and them having some kind of adventure together where they're laughing and joking around. So this sounds like a fun bedtime story for children. Now, we use Tiny WOW also to generate the story. We utilized it for ChhiPT. And this is what we have. So here's the thing. Once you get to arflow AI, you can actually do one of two things. You can either create your own story and use it in Rflow AI or you can have rtflow AI actually generate a story for you. Now the reason why I've shown you how to generate a story outside of rtflow AI is because I want you to know all the possibilities that exist out there in the AI space. Okay? Now, we're going to show this sort of semi manual method, and then afterwards, I'll show you the more automated method within the rtflow platform. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to go here and we're going to click on story Studio in Art flow AI. Okay. Now, these are actual sample stories of generated children's stories. You can click on one of them and see what it's like. So here's Benjamin Bunny, the clever bunny detective, enjoys a moment of stress squirrels left. You don't have to watch it at all, but you can sort of get an idea as to what you want to do. Benjamin. So here's an idea. What awaits him in a way to find happiness than stealing. Okay, now, in this video lesson, this section, really, I'm focusing on static images. What that means is I'm focusing on images that don't move, okay? And I'm narrating behind those images and making a children's story out of that. So that's one way to create a children's story, right, using AI tools. Now, there's a more animated approach to that where you can have the characters come to life, and I'll show you how to do that in the course as well. That'll be the next step. Okay, but for now, here's what we're going to do. We're going to click on You Story once we've gotten to the story studio and do our own thing. So click on You Story, and when you get here, you have two options. One is, help me get a story. The other is you already have a story, okay? So in our case, I have a story, right? So I'm going to click on that. And once you get here, the first thing you want to do is select your story genre. Now, the cool thing about the neat thing about art flow AI is you can do more than just children's stories, but for the purpose of the course, that's the genre we're focusing on. So I'm going to click on Children's Story. Alright. Now, the next thing you need to specify are the story characters. So we do have Ollie, and then we have another character that we need to add, which is dinosaur. I believe the dinosaur's name was a Triceratops, known as Trexi. So I'm going to say the following give me more elaboration on the two story characters, Ollie and Trixie. Okay? Let me just fix that word there, and let's enter that in to kind of give them personalities, okay? Here we go. All right. So that's more information there about them now. That's a lot of information. So we don't need all that. We just need sort of an intro of each so we want that concise. And we're going to say is, make it concise. So make it more concise. Okay, so that helps a lot. So now we have a small paragraph that will allow us to basically enter it in. And really, we don't need the whole thing. I think this is sufficient right here. So Ali's an 8-year-old boy with a big smile and a love for making people laugh. So that is good. And then we're going to take this right here. Just the first sentence is fine, tricky, friendly green dinosaur with a contagious laugh. I do want to mention it's a triceratops. So that's the dinosaur we selected. So we're going to mention that. Okay. And this is trick right here. And that's it. Those are the two characters. Now, the story outline is as follows. We already have that, and that's this right here. So I'm just going to go ahead and grab that. You can grab the Title two if you want. You don't have to, but you can. It doesn't hurt. And then I'm simply just going to click on Create this story. So you just make sure everything looks good. Children's story. You have your two characters, right? And then I have my story outline here. Looks good. And then I'm just going to click on create this story on the bottom here. All right? So once you've done that, you want to slick the you want to select now the story format. So vertical is more useful for shorts and reels, like on Instagram and TikTok, whereas horizontal is more appropriate for, like, YouTube channels. So for my purpose, I'm going to go with the horizontal for now. Once you've done that, you want to select a visual style for your story. There are many visual styles. I think because we're focusing on children's animations, the one that is most sort of Disney like or most animated would be this one right here, the three D cartoon. But you can certainly try some of the other ones. They work pretty good. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. Then I'm going to click on Continue to Character Creator. Alright then once we get there, we'll be able to move on to the next step. Alright, so as you can see, it's building the story characters. We have Ollie here and we have Trixi. So it takes a quick minute to generate the story characters. But the nice thing is, you can add a face if you wanted to. So this is an option. And you can also edit the character. Say you're not happy with the generation of the character, you can simply edit it and try again. So that's another cool thing about art flow. You can kind of refine. Okay? So here we have Trixi and here, Ollie is still generating but should show up in a second. Alright, so there's Ollie and there's Trixie. I think that's fine for what we're trying to do. Let's not go crazy. We're trying to teach how to generate sophisticated stories using AI tools. So that's the purpose right now. So we're going to continue to the storyboard. All right. Once you click on that, here's what's going to happen. It's going to give you shot narrations, and it's going to select images for each narration. Okay? So for each part of the story. And as you can see, the shot narration here says, with a heart full of joy, the little explorer ventured into the and so on and so on. So it's essentially taking on the narration and building on it. Let that generate for a minute there. Okay, so as you can see, the story is coming to life slowly but surely, it is fairly quickly, I would say. What you're going to want to do is go through each scene. This is the shot narration here. And see if that looks good and that makes sense for what you're trying to do. So with a heart full of joy, the little explorer ventured into the emerald embrace of the jungle, his laughter dance with the rustling leaves. Okay, cool. So that's this right here. And then you can see what image you want to use, I think, something that shows that he's sort of, you know, in going into the jungle. I think this first one right here, honestly, is good. So you can select one of these two yeah, this one is a little bit more centered, but I do like this one a bit more. So we're going to go ahead with that one, okay? So once you've selected that, you basically move on to your next scene here. If you don't like this one, again, you keep going on here. You move on. You want to look at the shot narration. So you have the shot narration showing here, and you have the character here, okay, with the background. Okay? So all of this is relevant. So here's the shot narration. This one is referring to this one right here. So a sudden booming ha ha startled him, and so on and so on. Okay. That's this right here, and you just move along. Okay, here it is. There in a burst of giggles, they are creature of dreams, joyful triceratops with laughter, spilling from every corner, and then you're just going to kind of select the image for each part of the scene, alright? Now, we did enter our story, but the way art flow AI works is it kind of refines the narration to fit the story a bit better. So that's one of the built in AI tools, but you can certainly update it as you like here, Okay? If something doesn't make sense, something doesn't resonate properly with you, you can update it accordingly. So you want to start here. Again, I think this is fine. Maybe some of the words are a little advanced for our young readers. You can always just take something like this and use Chat JBT to refine it and make it a little bit simpler. Use simpler words and refine this. That's the benefit of using Chat GBT as you go along here. Okay. And then I'm going to copy this, go back in here and just paste that here. Okay, so that's simpler words, easier to understand. We're going to go with that. So the first scene is good. What's the second scene say? So a sudden booming hah hah, startled him. Again, a little bit advanced in wording. But again, we're going to say the following, do the same for this. Okay, so we're going to make that a little bit simpler, copy that, go back here. So again, just a process of refinement. It's part of working with AI, right? So I like that. It's a lot better. And image wise, we're looking good here. Everything's fine. We have the character. So you select the character of reference for each scene. Next one here, this character is tricky. That's excellent. Okay. So this is nice. You have one of these two options. I think this one actually probably would be a tiny bit better, so we'll go with that. Okay? And this is fine. The language isn't too advanced, so we'll go with it. Moving on. The next one still remains to be trixi as you can see, we want one thing you want to focus on is character consistency, okay? So here you can see, you know, there's a little bit difference in the ears, the way they look. So the top of the head is slightly different. So you want to make sure that is as consistent as possible. Okay? It's not going to be perfect, but you do want consistency. So I like these two right here. But here, I mean, the character looks the dinosaur character, the Triceratops, Trixie looks slightly different. So I want to modify that. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on this, and, you know, I'm going to just generate. Again, it's going to take one credit, not too bad, but I think it's worth it. So this is also a good way to showcase how you can regenerate images for what we're trying to do. 4. Creating Your Scenes Exploring ArtFlow Features for Effective Storytelling: Alright, so moving on to the next scene here. So I've already generated a couple more for this shot and a couple of the other ones moving forward. So here it says he stared gently, curious about her giggles. Instead of quiet. He laughter grew louder, filling the air with joy. So I think that narvation is fine. Now, I generated a couple of images. I think the one that I would probably choose out of all of these is this one because I want him to be a little kind of curious looking, but also not sad or, you know, extremely worried or scared. So just a balance of emotions, and I thought this one would probably be best. Also, this AI image is not suitable because it has three feet and we're not doing that. We're not going to use that. So this one is sufficient for what we're trying to do. And that's what you want to do here is you want to look at shot narrations and sort of compliment them with your images, right? So they need to compliment each other. I think that's the right way of looking at this. Okay, so make sure that the narrations complement the images as you go along because you're building a story. Alright, so the very next one here is you have two choices. I think this would be fine, but let's take a look at the narration. With a heart full of hope, he danced and displayed his best jokes. Okay. That looks fine. We'll go with that. I think that's okay. It shows a playful Ollie. And we're gonna move on to the next one here. Okay? So here I've generated a couple of images as well. And I think this one's okay. Although it's not showing her horns exactly, you know, one can argue that because her head is tilted back. It's not showing as much, so that would be fine. Let's just make sure the shot narration makes sense. To surprise, the laughter bounced around, gathering the jungles creatures like a magical thread, binding them together. Hmm, okay. So we don't see any other creatures in the background there. We can certainly try to regenerate and see if we can get another creature in the background. Okay. With small creature in the background. And let's just see what that gives us. If we're not successful, we're going to just move on with what we have. In the meantime, we're going to look at the next one. Okay, so this next one here has a short narration of well, beginning worry, transforming into joy, the sound of happiness, through the trees, celebration of newfound friendship. Okay. So there were some images of different creatures, but I thought this one looks best because it still shows the main character Trixie here. Moving on. Okay, they realized laughter was a gift. It painted the jungle in colors of happiness, where worries, lost their way. This would be okay showing Ollie the main character. Alright, let's go back here. The one that we were looking to generate with small creatures in the background. This might work. Let's see. Okay, so we're getting closer here. You do have one character in the background. I don't think it's as consistent of a character. We can try regenerating one more time. It won't hurt. So I'm going to go ahead and just click on that generate there. We're getting closer on that one. And again, it's a process of refinement, right? So you want to kind of do it a couple of times and see which one works best for you. It's completely fine. Okay, so here, let's see. There are different images generated and this one is basically stating from that day on the jungle echoed with laughter. Together, they became the source of endless hoy. This is referring to the two characters. Now, I'm going to do something different here, and I've already done this, actually. What you want to do is what I did, essentially was I clicked on none for character, and I just generated the background. I'm going to do that again right now also because I do want different backgrounds to look at. So I want to select, you know, just the background in this case, because I want different images. I want different sceneries. I don't want the same look throughout the story of just one character and the other character. So I want things to look a little different, right? So, okay, so still not much success here, but again, you can regenerate a couple of times, and that's completely fine. It's part of the nature of AI, working with AI, right? Okay. We're letting that generate, as well. So we're gonna just go ahead and move on as we go along here. As the day faded into twilight, laughter lingered, like a sweet melody, reminding everyone of that magical moment. Okay. And I think this is fine. We can choose this one right here. I don't see any issues there. Here we have different images. What's the shot narration say all depends. Okay? So in the embrace of glee, they talk All Creatures sometimes the loudest joy creates the deepest bonds. Very nice. Okay? So, it has a nice message behind it. This is consistent with the character Trixie, the look of her. So we can go with that. Let's go back to our previous scenes here, see if we can get something a little better. I think for now, I'm going to go ahead and select probably the one that's been most consistent, which in our case probably is either this one or we can probably select this one, honestly. Yeah, let's go with this for now because there is a creature in the background there. All right. So we're going to move forward. As you can see, we're just building the shot narrations with each of these images to compile a working story. All of these look good. I'm happy with that. Here we have the scenery. I don't want any character shown in this one pick which one you like most, which one would be fitting most. I think we could probably pick one of these two. This one is nice and colorful. This one as well. Maybe we'll go with this one right here. And use that. We're looking good. I already reviewed the shot narrations. With that said, in the next video lesson, what I would like to do is export the video animation fully narrated, and I would also like to save all the images so that I can use them for future animation purposes where we're going to make our characters actually speak. We're going to modify this story in the next part of the course. Later on, and we're going to have these characters actually come to life more and speak and kind of lip sync the voiceovers with the images that we have here. All right? So we'll look at that in the next video lesson. 5. Producing and Exporting Your AI Narrated Video Story: Okay, so as mentioned in the previous video lesson, I stated that after we've built our scenes in art flow AI, specifically using static images, what we want to do is export our story now. But before we do that, I want to do something that will help us in our future edits. And this is beneficial because I'm going to show you how to take a video story like this and upgrade it to the point that you'll have these characters actually talk. They'll come more into life. They'll have a voiceover, and the voiceover will be lip sync. So as they talk, right? I'll kind of match the static images and it'll all kind of just feed into the story plot. So what we're going to do is the first thing before we export is we're going to save all these images. What you want to do is go to the first scene here and right click and then click on Save Image As. Alright, and then once you've done that, in my case, it's going to go to a story Images folder that I've created. And you can save it as a WebP file that's completely fine. It would work. And then click and then just create the file name, call it whatever you want. I'm just going to name them by numbers. So this is one. This is two, and we're just going to kind of do that for them all. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and do the rest of them now. So this is three and so on. Alright, so once you're all done, you'll have all of your static images saved in a folder. That's the ideal situation. So make sure you do that. And then once that's done, we're just going to go ahead and export the video, okay? Now, if you want to save any of the other images for your future use, you can also. I mean, they're generated images for your utilization, but if not, then you can move on. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to click on Export, so I'm going to go ahead and click on Export now. All right, so I did make a couple of other tweks to the video before I exported it. But here it is. Once it's fully exported, you'll have your story basically saved under Story Studio, and then you can just click on it and watch it. So let's go ahead and take a quick look at it, and we'll kind of judge as to whether it did the right job for us or not. Let's take a look. With a heart full of happiness, the little explorer entered the green jungle. His laughter, mixed with the sound of the leaves rustling. A loud ha startled. It bounced through the air, calling him to find out where it came from. There, in a burst of giggles lay a creature of dreams, a joyful triceratops with laughter spilling from every corner. Her laughter grew louder, filling the air with a warmth that chased away all shadows. He felt his heart flutter with delight. He stared gently, curious about her giggles. Instead of quiet, her laughter grew louder, filling the air with joy. With a heart full of hope, he danced and displayed his best jokes. Yet the playful giant remained lost in her mirth. To his surprise, the laughter bounced around, gathering the jungles creatures like a magical thread, binding them together. What began in worry transformed into joy. The sound of happiness wove through the trees a celebration of newfound friendship. They realized laughter was a gift. It painted the jungle and colors of happiness, where worries lost their way. From that day on, the jungle echoed laughter. Together, they became the source of endless joy. As the day faded into twilight, laughter lingered like a sweet melody, reminding everyone of that magical moment. In the embrace of glee, they taught all creatures. Sometimes the loudest joy creates the deepest bond. There's the video, as you can see. It came out great. I mean, the static images are certainly complementing the um narration, the plot. So it's all coming out good. And mind you, we did this in a couple of minutes. I mean, I'm going through a course here, right? But ideally, I could have done this in a matter of minutes, okay? But you do have the idea here as to what we've done. And essentially what we're doing is, as you saw, it's a narrator speaking behind these images and articulating the story, okay? Now, all of these watermarks that you see here, art flow, and at the end, rtflow AI and all that stuff, we can remove that. I'll show you how to do that later in the course, as well. Okay, beautiful. So we've made great progress here. We've just generated a video story using static images and a narrator. It's amazing stuff, right? So, now that we have all of these static images saved in a folder, what we can do is actually take those images. And again, as I mentioned, we can animate those, right? So we want these characters to actually move because as you can see, when this video is playing you know, I mean, you have a narrator speaking behind the images. But the images are not moving. These are just pictures. So what we want to do is take it to the next step and have these characters move, at least talk with subtitles. Okay? So we're going to do something a little different, but we're going to keep the same characters for consistency of the story just to show that you can take the same story and you can do more than one thing with it. Of course, you can create new characters if you wanted to, but I'm going to stick with the same characters that we have. And we're going to start getting into that right away in the next video lesson. 6. ArtFlow in Action Fully AI Generated Narrated Story - Lily and Momo: So I've shown you how to generate story ideas with Chat Chippy T. I've shown you how to do it with Tiny WOW. Now, I want to show you how to actually do this within the rtflow AI platform, okay? We already have a story. Obviously, we have Ollie and the laughing dinosaur, and that's what we're going to go with for the course. But I do want to show you that you can create your own story within Artflow AI, if you wish, okay? It is optional. So we're going to do is we're going to click on instead of I have a story, we're going to click on Help Me get a story, okay? We'll give this a shot. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on that. Then when I'm there, I want to select a few things. The first thing is who is your audience? Okay? So you have a couple of options here. I'm going to say young children no more than the age of eight, okay? And then I'm going to click on that and move on to the next step. Okay. So as you can see, it's kind of like a chat bot speaking to you, like TPT equivalent, right? Now it's going to ask, what's the purpose of this story, okay? To inspire children to be friendly and generous with others. Okay? So we want to have a good moral stance to the story, a good moral lesson that children can learn off of. Okay, great. Now, we're going to obviously select children's story because that's our focus for the video lesson and the course. So I'm going to click on that, but as you can see, you have a bunch of genres to select from. Now, do you have any story ideas on your mind? Well, I mean, if you don't have an idea, you can just generate, and it'll generate it for you. But if you want it, you can certainly add something here. So here you can say a young girl dreams of an extinct animal who teaches her valuable lessons about being nice to people, okay? Or you can say nice and generous to people, right? So she has a dream, and, you know, an extinct animal could be any kind of, like, extinct animal who teaches her valuable lessons about being nice and generous to people. And the reason why I'm using extinct animals is because they are Um, you know, sort of trendy to children. Children get excited about dinosaurs and animals that are extinct, right, that don't exist anymore. It's educational, and they make for good characters in children's stories. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Generate Story Outline. Let's see what this gives us. I'm going to show you how to literally generate a story from beginning to end. Just by doing this, okay? So here you go. I have two story characters. I have Lila and Momo. So here we have Lila is a thoughtful and imaginative girl who loves exploring and dreaming big. And here we have Momo, a wise and gentle woolly mammoth, who embodies kindness and teaches valuable lessons. Awesome. And then here you have an 8-year-old girl dreaming of the mammoth under a starlight sky. And they meet each other. Momo is very kind, and it's a magical land and so on and so on. And it seems like it's a story of friendship, of generosity, of sharing. This is great. So you can just proceed and create the story, okay? Again, I'm going to select horizontal. I'm going to select three D cartoon. We've already done this before, and we're going to click on Continue. And it's going to take a minute to generate your story plot, your images. But let's see how this comes out. Let's give it a quick minute. Okay? So here are our two generated characters, Lila and Momo. Okay, so as you can see, Lila is the 8-year-old girl. She's imaginative. She's the one that has the dream, and then Momo is the extinct mammoth who is friendly, kind, and teaches valuable lessons about generosity and joy. Okay, so we're going to continue to the storyboard as we've done before. So weal did all of this, but now I'm just showing you sort of the automated approach to taking it from A to Z, where you have the built in bot create everything for you, including the story. So it'll create a story for you, create the characters. It creates the narration, the images, all the above, okay? So we're going to go ahead and demonstrate this, and I'll show you a very quick video just to show you to showcase that you can create a video in a matter of minutes. I mean, there's always room for refinement, always room for perfection. But if you really wanted something quick, I mean, this is something that can happen real fast, right? So here we go, as you can see, we already have something to work with. It's already starting to build all of our images. Now, you may have some issues with character consistency, but we're going to do our best. Okay? It is a children's story, so let that continue to generate here. Okay, the images are starting to come together. Alright, so as it's generating, let's take a look at the narration real quick. Okay? So this is good. So now that we have all our images generated, let's just go through it quickly. If you want, you can go through each of the shot narrations. You don't have to. I'm just showing you the express way of creating an AI video, so I'm just going to go and skim through them quickly just to make sure at least I have, you know, some level of consistency here, something that makes sense. So we'll go with this one. And I'm just showing you, again, the quick way to go about doing something like this. So we'll go with that one. We'll go with this one right here where there's a friend. It's okay. And that one is, this one is fine. That one's okay. Okay, we're moving quickly here, again, just to showcase the express way of doing this. Okay, that one's fine. Yeah, we'll go with that one. This one's okay. And that one's fine. Okay, perfect. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Export. Now, I didn't really go through the narrations, but I'm just going to kind of trust the AI on this one, just showing you that you can fully automate the process to export a video in a matter of a couple of minutes or less. So let's let that export. I should take another minute or two, and then we'll get to watch it. Okay, so then just in a matter of two to 3 minutes, the video has already been fully generated, and here it is. Let's take a look at it. I'm not gonna play the whole video, but I'll play at least, say, 30 to 45 seconds of it to get an idea of what has been generated since we first started this process in this video lesson. And I'll share the entire video so you can watch the whole thing. But without further ado, let's take a look at what's been generated. In her cozy nook, a curious dreamer slipped into slumber. Stars twinkled outside whispering secrets of adventure. She awoke to a wondrous scene. Before her stood a gentle giant, its coat thick and warm. It beckoned with inviting eyes. Welcome to the land of kindness, the majestic beast exclaimed. Joy danced all around a melody of sharing and love. Eagerly she began to share her treasures. The air buzzed with gratefulness. Happiness thrived as gifts exchanged hands like blooming flowers. But as her gifts vanished, so did her joy. Something important felt lost. She looked around wondering where her happiness had gone. The wooly friend watched closely. Kindness is a treasure, it said softly, but do not forget to fill your heart, too. She pondered deeply. True joy danced not in things. It blossomed from sharing love and warmth, a gentle fire within. With a gracious gesture, the gentle giant offered a gift. This is the stone of friendship, it declared, glowing like 1,000 dreams. Awakening with a heart full of wisdom, she held on to the bright stone, knowing it symbolized lasting bonds beyond mere gifts. At the playground, the dreamers spirit radiated. She shared her toys now, love woven into every hug and smile. Together, they wove a tapestry of friendship. Every smile burst like a flower, spreading kindness into the world. With laughter echoing, she basked in the warmth of generosity. The greatest gift was love, a treasure for every heart. There you go. So, I mean, this came out great. In a matter of what couple minutes, we were able to generate a children's story that many children can relate to. And the focus of the story was to inspire children, um, to be kind to others and also be generous to others, right? So it's a story of giving and sharing, and it's also creative in the sense that it goes inside her dream. So the whole sort of plot is about her dreaming this, right? So she's in, like, a magical land and across she comes across this mammoth. So we were able to generate something like this, again, in a matter of minutes, and as you can see, the power of AI has been harnessed and we were able to effectively communicate the message to our young audience, right? So that's another way you can use art flow AI in this case for the purpose of generating quick video stories, specifically narrated ones. Now, for the next step, as I mentioned, we do want to take those static images that we saved from the initial story that we created, Ollie and the laughing dinosaur. And we want to make those come to life. Now, we can certainly do the same thing with this story as well. But for now, I'm going to go ahead and proceed with using our first story, Ollie and the laughing dinosaur in the next video lesson, and we're going to start adding voiceovers and lip syncing and also modifying the plot a little bit so that those characters are actually talking instead of a narrator sort of speaking behind those static images. So let's go ahead and take a look at how to do all of that in the next video lessons. 7. Refining Story Scripts with GPT for Engaging Narratives: So at this point, what we're going to do is take that initial story that we developed Ollie and the laughing dinosaur, and essentially, we're going to utilize those static images that were generated and produce an AI animated video story out of it, where you have the characters actually moving and the voiceover is lip sync. So they'll actually be talking. It's not going to be just it's not going to be just another narrated story. We're basically taking it to the next level, and we want to explore this methodology because when you're dealing with AI animated video stories, there's a couple of different presentations that you can offer to children. So some children like narrated stories, other children enjoy characters that are more alive that are speaking. That have lip sync voices. So I want to get right into it. The first thing you want to do is actually take that initial story that we developed, Ollie and the laughing dinosaur, and we want to modify it so that it's more of a dialogue as opposed to just a narration. So we do is we go to Chat GPT, and you go to the initial chat log where you prompted hatchPT to provide a script on this very story, Allie and the laughing dinosaur. We want to modify it, right? So we want it to be more of a dialogue. So here's what we're going to say. We're going to say the following. Provide an updated version of the story. And we'll put this in comas. All the laughing laughing dinosaur. So that it is more of a dialogue between and we're going to say between Ali and Trixie, which is the character. You can have or you can set one initial and you can say one initial narration at the very beginning. And let's just see what it gives us. Let's go down. And of course, if it's too long, we can certainly modify it. But let's see how this one looks right here. Okay. All right. So we do want it to match our images, so that's something we need to remember as well. All right. So let's see what we got in a quiet village, so on, so on and so on. Okay, a little bit longer at the beginning. Okay. Looks good. All right. So I think we could pretty much use this script or most of it. And the only thing I'm going to do is I'm going to say, great, but modify the initial narration so that it's let's say, simple and more concise. We just want like a simple intro in the very beginning there of the story. Okay. It's still a little long, so I'm going to say even shorter on that. I'm just going to stop there and just say even shorter. Let me just give that a quick second here. Okay. So I think this is good. All right. I like it. It's really good. Let's work with this. Okay, so I think that looks really good. Now the next step would be to actually take this new script and import it into art flow, and I'll show you how to do that in a very next video. 8. Optimizing Scripts for Visual Scenes AI Driven Adjustments: One thing you can do to better improve the quality of your script is to gain accuracy in the updated dialogue, right? So here's what we can do. Looking at our story images, we have 12 images. Let me just make this a little bit bigger here. Okay. So we have 12 images in total, and out of those 12 images, it looks like we have one, two, three, four, five, six of those of which Ollie is speaking or is going to speak, and then we have one, two, three, four, five, of which Trixie is going to speak, and then we have one that has a background. So maybe that one could be somewhere in between or in the beginning, depending on what we want to do. But we will want something there. I think this might be actually good for our first scene, like the intro scene, but let's see how it works. Okay, so I'm going to say this. I'm going to go back and I'm going to say, I have 12 scenes, images, you can say, or if you want to be more specific static images, just so the AI understands what you're talking about, in which six of them are Ali speaking. Five of them are tricky. And one would be the narrator, update the script accordingly, we're going to say. I think this will give us the perfect updated dialogue that we're looking for here. This looks a lot better. It's also a lot more organized, right? So it's also a lot more organized, more simplistic, easier to follow. All right. So here's the very beginning. Okay. Perfect. Looks good to me. Alright, we're gonna go with this. So we may need to update the static images accordingly to fit the scenes, which I think is simple enough to do, but we'll do that once we jump into our flow AI. 9. Preparing for Vocalization Uploading Static Images to ArtFlow Video Studio: All right so now that we have our updated dialogue, what we're going to do is we're going to live in the art flow environment a little bit, work in this platform, and try to make the best out of those static images. Let's get an animated story out of it. So here at this point, where you're going to do is you're going to go to Video Studio, okay? So under Video Studio, this is where we'll actually be putting together all our static images and making a video out of it. So you're going to want to click on Create New video from scratch, okay? Go ahead and click on that. It's going to take you to the studio environment. Okay, let that load for a quick second here. Great. Now, once you're here, you basically want to start by uploading your shots. Initially, what you can do is you can create a maximum of 20 shots. That's 20 scenes. Not bad for a children's story. So before we do anything, the first thing you're going to want to do is obviously upload. So the first thing you're going to want to do is upload all your images. So we'll go down here and click on Browse and just select your images one by one. So let's go ahead and upload all of those. Okay, cool. Just click on Browse and essentially just keep doing this. You won't be able to do this for multiple images, so you do have to do them one at a time, unfortunately, but it's definitely worth it. Fairly quickly. I mean, the maximum you can do is 20 shots for now anyway. So let me go ahead and complete that. Okay, so this is kind of a little bit of a quicker way to do it as I was doing this, I just figured I'd split the screens and just upload them one by one. This is going a lot faster. So just a little tip there. And we're on the last one. Okay, great. So that's all 12 of them. That wasn't too bad. That was fairly quickly, actually. Okay, so we have all of our images now. We've uploaded them. And in the very next video lesson, I'm going to show you how to take all of these static images and start building your scenes. 10. Building Static Scenes with Voiceover in ArtFlow Laying the Foundation (Part 1): Alright, now that we have all our static images imported into the video studio environment, the next step is to create your scenes. Now, we're going to start with the very first scene, but the first thing you want to do is give your video project the title. So I'm going to just call this Ollie and the laughing dinosaur. Okay. And then we begin. So I'm going to base the scenes, obviously, off of the Chat hippy T log. So let me move this here and let me put the Chat hippy T window on the other end right here. And let me get the most recent script, which is actually this one right here. Perfect. Okay, so the very first one scene one is the narrator. And the narrator here speaks. Ali loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day he heard a loud happy laugh and followed it. So let's go with that. The very first one probably won't include any character. So here's what you do. You take this. You click on this first here up here. And then what you do is you essentially select the static image that you want to use. So we're going to start with this very first one, and as you can see, it fills it in. And once you do that, as you can see, it's shown here, it's saying no face detected. That's fine. There is no face in here. No character. Dialogue we do want dialogue in here, so we're going to put the following and we're going to say, Ali loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. Okay? So we start with that. And once you have the dialogue, you can actually preview the voice. So let's go ahead and click on that. But what it's doing is it's loading a voice Ollie loved touring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. Okay, so that's the voice that it defaulted to now. You can click on all voices here and you can select whatever voice you want. Hi there. But this is the one that we Well, it defaulted too, okay? There's many other ones. You can pick what you want. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animated stories on. Well, there's a lot of premium options, but there's also a lot of free ones, too. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animated stories on Art flow. Okay, so you want to pick something that is, like, children friendly, something that's sort of sweet, you know, provides, like, a sweet melody to children. Hi, there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animation. And there's also many different accents. So if you want, like an English accent, right, British, so on. So there's all these different types of accents that you can choose from, okay? So, ultimately, you're gonna want to pick one. It could be a male voice, could be a female voice, could be old, it could be young. You just want to kind of look around, and it also tells you what they are. You know, are they serious, are they sad? Are they panicked? So you can select sort of a mood to them also. You have some casual ones also here. Hi there. If you like, what you. Alright, so, ultimately, you just choose what you want. Uh, for now, I'm probably just gonna go with maybe this one right here. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animated stories on rtflow. Review that? Ollie loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. I think that sounds really nice. So it sounds children friendly. The next thing you do is you go to effects, and then you can kind of choose what effect you want, right? So right to left, left to right, you can zoom in, you can zoom out. So I think for me, I'm going to zoom in on that. I think that gives it a nice effect. Alright, so there's our first scene. We're all done with that. Then we can then move on. So you're going to click on the plus over here and work on generating your next scene. We click on uploads, and we select our second scene. Let me move this to the side again. The second scene is Ollie, where he says, What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. So you want an image that complements that, okay? So I'm going to kind of go in order to the best of my ability. So what's that sound? It's so loud and funny? Well, a dinosaur and you're supposed to be extinct. So it all depends on how you want him to express himself, right? So here he seems really happy, excited. Right? Here, it's more of like, what's that sound? So loud and funny. So maybe this would be good for scene two. I'm going to go ahead and click on that for my second scene there, okay? And as you can see, it has one face detected, which is great. Now, if you wanted to disable the animation, you would just click on that, okay? And that's disabled, or you can enable it. You want to make sure that it is enabled, because if it isn't, then you won't be able to have any voiceovers or anything like that. So make sure that is clicked. Okay, so we go to scene. Seen looks good. You can also zoom in and out if you want. You can show parts of the story or parts of the image, if you wish. You can show the whole thing. On my end, I want to show the whole thing there. At click on Character. Okay? And then, you can select, you know, Again, like your own image, if you want. In our case, we have our own image, or you can select one of the pre loaded images in their library. So we don't want any of those, right? So we want our own, so then we just move on. We're going to go to dialogue. And once we're here, you're going to want to enter in what Ali says. So here Ali says the following. He's going to say, what's that sound? It's so loud and funny, okay? So this is Ollie being introduced in a jungle for the first time, and it kind of complements the previous scene because it shows that he was in a jungle. Okay, let's preview the voice and see what it picks for us. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. I don't like it. I don't think it matches him. So let's pick something that matches our buddy, Ollie here. Alright, so let's try Elliott. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animated stories on art flow. Now, here's a really cool feature. There's actually a filters section. You can select free premium. So for me, I don't mind. I can do either or. And then I'm going to go ahead and click on Male Voices, and I want a young one because it is a young boy, okay? And then you can select what you want. The role, okay? You can select I'll choose any of them. It doesn't matter. American is the one I'm looking for. I'm gonna go ahead and show the result. I have about 11 of them it's showing. Just click on Melvin. Hi there. If you like what you hear. That's way too young. Hi there. If you like what you hear. Nope, that's not gonna work. Let's try somebody these other ones. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to create animate. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my voice to Hi there. If you like what you hear. Hi there. If you like what you. Hi there. Hi there. If you like what you hear, you can use my boys to create animated stories on heart flow. Let's give that one a try. So let's preview it and see how it sounds. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. So I think that's alright. Let's go with it. So that's the dialogue section. Then we go to effects, and again, you can choose whatever effect you want. Let's do right to left this time. So we'll select that. And that's our very next scene. Okay, so we just did two scenes, and let's go ahead and create our third one. So we're going to go again to uploads. And as I keep doing this, hopefully, you get the hang of it, so you can do it yourself. That's the goal here for the course. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on very next image for the scene that I Want. So the next one is actually Trixie talking. And here, Trixie is laughing, and she says, Oh, I can't stop laughing. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and where is one where she is laughing a lot. Okay. So, I mean, I suppose she's pretty happy in many of them. I'm gonna go ahead and maybe click on this one. So let's click on that one for the next scene. And then we're gonna click on her voice right here. So we go to scene. We don't want character. We're fine there, dialogue, and just enter that in. Let's get a preview of the voice and see how that voice oversunds. Oh, I can't stop laughing. So, the laughing didn't come out right. The voice sounds decent, though. Let's see if we can try this. Ha ha ha. So you might want to split. Ha ha ha. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Sounds better because Barr says, a ha ha, it is a lot better. Okay? So we're gonna do that. Let's go with ha ha ha. So, I mean, the point is, when you're dealing with AI, there are gonna be some nuances and you need to make sure that you find your workarounds. Okay, so that was a quick workaround right there. Alright, so haha, I can't stop laughing. Fine. And I actually like the voice. The voice seems pretty good. So I do think this one right here is probably the right one. It sounds sort of matching to the character Trixie, the dinosaur. So we're going to go with it. That's the one that we've selected. Okay, let's go to Effex and let's see what would look good. So we got a zoom in. We have a zoom out. Okay. And then we have the right, and then we have the left, see which one looks the best. Let's try to zoom out on this one. Okay. All right. Great. So we just completed our first three scenes, and hopefully this gave you more insight on how to build your scenes within the video studio environment. Now, in the next video lesson, I'm going to go through the rest of the scenes, so you can also get more practice and see how I do it so that you can also build your own video story with animations, with lip syncing, per the voiceovers that we're adding here. 11. Building Static Scenes with Voiceover in ArtFlow Enhancing Creativity (Part 2): Now moving on to the next step, what we're going to do is build the rest of our story using those static images that we initially generated to complete our video animation. So let's go ahead and move to the next scene. We're going to click on this plus here just to add another scene or two. And then once we get here, go to Uploads again. And let's click let's go to our chat log. And Ollie is now saying, Well, a dinosaur, aren't you supposed to be extinct? Okay, cool. So you want image that complements that? So I think this one is good. He's very excited or this one. So one of those two would be good. Let's go with this one, okay? So I have the text copied already. I'm gonna go to dialogue again, enter that in. And preview voice, it's not going to sect. I don't think it's gonna select the same voice that you initially selected for this character, so you may have to reselect it each time. But let's see what it gives us. Whoa, a dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Yeah, so it basically defaults to the very one that it thinks you should use. In our case, we can't use that, so we do need to filter for the one that we want. So you can simply just keep that filtered and, you know, if you want, you could do the scenes for this one character first and then go back and do the others. So it's really just a preference situation here. But on my end, I know which one it is, okay so you do want to keep in mind as to which one you've selected. So the one I've selected is this one, spike for Ollie. Preview that. Wow. A dinosaur? Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Okay. Very good. Then effects. Um, I think we should have an effect on each one of these. Uh, Yeah, let's do the Zoom. Let's do the Zoom out again. Like that looks good there. All right. Next scene, we're just going to keep moving on. Click on scenes. Let's go back, go to uploads. And again, let's do the same thing and finish it up. The next one is Trixi and I like this line. She says, extinct, not me. I've been here all along, hiding and laughing. So this seems like a fun story that kids will like. It's appealing to them, right? It's a funny character. So what we do is, again, click on that scene there. Click on one of the images that would work. So I think this one is good. Let's give it a shot. Okay, so this one has a problem. It says no face detected, it's probably because it's too much of an angle on the face. So we may need to route back to this one. Let's see if we can pick another one here. Let's try this one. Okay? We got a face there. So we're gonna give that one a shot. Okay, we'll give that one a shot. Let's go to dialogue. And that's it. Preview a voice. Hopefully, it comes out good. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Awesome. Okay. And let's do a right to left on that one. Cool. Moving on to the next one. So the next one is Ollie saying, Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? Alright, so you want to keep in mind as to which ones you've used already. So as you're going along, make sure that you don't duplicate the same image, you know. So here we have all these things, why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? I like say this one for it. I like this one for it a lot. Go ahead and enter that in. And for the voice, I already know which voice I want, so I'm just going to go ahead and click on Spike, which should be on the bottom here, use voice. And let's go ahead and put that voice over. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? And the effects a left to right should be fine. Alright. Cool. And we just keep going. So our very next one here would be scene seven. We're getting there. So Trixi says, it's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Okay? So you want a good image for Trixi the dinosaur there. So we know this one has a face detection issue. We've already used that one. I believe you can always verify and see which ones you have used, which ones you haven't. So we could probably go with, you know, this one of these right here. See if this one gives us a face detection. Alright, so this one does not, either, okay? So you may need to generate a couple more static images for that, or I'll show you another way to resolve this issue using another program. For now, I'm not too worried. Let's go ahead and click on this one. Let's see if that gives us a face. It does. Okay. This one has a character in the back. So this one we might want to modify, so you might want to zoom in only because, as you recall, we've said that in our story script, that this is the first and only dinosaur that Ollie has seen. So I'm gonna just zoom in and cut that off. So that's a quick way to do it. We're gonna go to dialogue here, enter this in, say, it's my belly, okay? And let's see if an effect would be okay. No. I suppose maybe you know what? I might not do any movement on this, or maybe I'll do something like this. Hmm. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do any movement on this one, just because I want the image showing in this manner. So that should be fine. Let's do no effect only on this one right here. Think it looks good as it is, anyway. Okay. Very good. Let's see how that sounds. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Great. Okay. So we're getting there. We're almost at the end. Alright, so we have a couple more scenes to do. So let's get through it. 12. Building Static Scenes with Voiceover in ArtFlow Final Touches (Part 3): Okay, so for scene A, Ali is just basically saying, really, let me try. He wants to tickle the dinosaur. Alright, so easy enough. I like well, first of all, let's add a shot there. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And for this one, I guess I'll select this one. It makes sense. We have a face detector there, drop the dialogue and it's just simple really let me try, select your voice. Once again, let's go down, select Spike, use this voice, add an effect. Zoom out, and that's it. Let's preview it. You can see that was really quick. Really? Let me try. Good enough. Next. It would be our scene nine. We have another ha ha ha, so we need to make sure that we separate those has. Okay, so we need Trixie more so laughing a lot somehow as much as possible. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this scene and select the one where she'd be laughing a lot. Now, again, I can animate this further and get them to laugh more. So I'm not too worried about this, but I'm going to click on this one because she's kind of down, kind of like kneeling down. So we don't have a character, we have a dialogue on here. We can just add that so hah hah, huh. Stop. I can't take it. Ha ha ha. And let's preview it for now. It's okay that there's no face detected for the time being. I'll show you how to resolve it. Stop. I can't take it half. Okay. Stop. I can't take it. Ha. That's kind of an aggressive laugh. But you know what? It might make sense because it's a dinosaur. I'm gonna keep it. And, uh, see how does that zoom out sound? Yeah. That zoom out looks good on that, so we'll go with it. We're almost there. Okay. Ollie says you're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. So on this scene, we will select Oli, where he is happy. You're the funniest dinosaur. He's kind of laughing your, I'm gonna go with it. Dialogue. Drop this. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met, again, the voice. And I hope you're getting the hang of it as you're going through this. And hopefully you can build your video as you go along. So use this voice, preview it again, make sure it fits well with the scene. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. Mm hmm. Right to left seems okay. I think left to right makes more sense. And we'll go with that. Okay, so we literally have like, I think, two more scenes. We can finish those up real quick. Trixie says, it's very well said. She says, I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. So we go to uploads, and I think there's only, like, one or two images that haven't been used yet. Believe this is one of them. This has not been used. So I'm gonna use that. That's the only one that hasn't been used. Again, no face detected, but again, it's something that can be resolved. I'll show you how to resolve that later. Okay, I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met.'s run that. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Okay. Finally, the last scene. The last scene is where Ollie says, Come on Trixie Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Okay. We go here, and the very last image is this one right here. Okay, so dialog. As you can see, we're not using the character tab at all because we have our own characters. And, click on all voices. Let's go down here. Use that voice. Just preview it for our last scene. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole Jada laugh. Let's get rid of this coma, 'cause I don't like that little pause there. Come on, Trixie, Let's make the whole ble laugh. Much better. And that's really it. So we're going to export and animate this, and as you can see, it takes about 45 credits. Not too bad. We have a 47 second video. So we're going to go ahead and do this. And the title is Ollie and the Laughing dinosaur. So I'm just going to simply click on Export Video, and it's going to render. It doesn't take too long, but once it's finished, we'll watch it. We'll look at it, and we'll talk about the next steps. You can refine it and improve it, and I'll show you some methods on how to do that, just to have a better quality final look for your animated video. And they're pretty simplistic, nothing too complicated. So we'll take what we've done here and improve it. I'll show you some tools that will enhance the final video production. 13. Reviewing Narrated Scenes in ArtFlow: Okay, so in the last video lesson, we exported the animation that we put together, and it's ready. So it's been fully rendered. Now, I am expecting that it won't be perfect, and that's okay because obviously, AI is a phenomenon that is continuing to grow and develop and improve. So what we're going to do is look at the imperfections and see if we can polish them. We can enhance them to reach more of a perfect look. And I'll show you how to do that. If we need to explore outside of this tool, which we probably will, we'll do so. And it'll be brief. It won't be anything too crazy. So I know from my experience in using art flow AI, people characters, human beings, that is, the voiceover and lip sync is usually perfect. But when you bring in, like, animals or other animate type characters, not so much. Okay? So that's been my experience with outflow. So I'm expecting here that Ollie the human character, the young boy, it will be pretty good in terms of the lip syncing and the voiceover. With Trixie, with the dinosaur, I think we might see some nuances. So let's take a look. I'm gonna play the video. We're gonna click on this right here. Let's take a look. Alright. So I'm gonna maximize here, and let's see how it came out. I'm excited to see this. Ollie loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Ha ha ha. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. A dinosaur? Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along just hiding and laughing. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Really? Let me try. Ha. Stop. I can't take it. Ha. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jumble laugh. So, there it is. Not so bad, not so good. But hey, it's an AI generated video, and it's something that, you know, could have been done if you had, like, producers and animators and all the like a whole staff just to make a video like this, it would have taken a lot of it would have cost a lot of money. I would have cost a lot of time. But without flow AI, we're doing this in a matter of minutes or less. So I just downloaded the file. You can download it or you can download it with the closed captions. I'm going to download both for now because I want to take a look at how both came out. And now what we're going to do is we're going to go to Canva. And what I'm intending to do is I'm going to leave Ollie the same. I think his came out okay. We just need to modify Trixi's voiceover, okay? Now, I will agree that the young boy's voice came out a little bit robotic. For me, I like more of a natural voice, but I will tell you this. There's a lot of other premium voices you can choose from. We can enhance that. We can fix that if we really wanted to using a program called 11 Labs. So I can show you how that's going to be done. And for now, we're going to modify Trixi the laughing dinosaur. 14. Creating Expressive Voiceovers with ElevenLabs AI: Oh, 11 Labs is a great application. Basically allows you to download, well, rather, search for and download real sounding speech, right? And they're AI generated. So really cool. Let's go ahead and click on GoTo App. I already have an account with 11 Labs. It is free, so you have a lot of free options. If you wanted something that was if you wanted to access the premium options, you can do that, as well. But essentially here, once you click on Go to App, you can click on Voices, and then you can go to the library and pick whatever one you want. There's many different types of voices. So in our case, we're going to click on characters in animation. And then select what you want. So you can pick whatever language you want. So in my case, I specifically want English. I can pick whatever accent I want. So I want the American accent again. And then gender wise, I'm going to select the female. Since Trixie is a female, let's say middle aged. We have a middle aged dinosaur here, and that's good. Let's see how some of these sound like. Alright, so here is one. Well, well. Okay, so look at a few options. Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. You teach best what you most need to learn. Okay. I don't bite my tongue for no. A wise man will make Well begun is half done. Don't smother each other. Okay. The greatest way to live with B here now. Be. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. So this one sounds pretty cool. Sounds realistic. I'm gonna go ahead and choose this one. So I'll click on Add and then once I've done that, I'll click on us. Okay, so once we've selected our voice, what we're going to do now is we're in the text to speech section in 11 labs. I want to go to my GPT script and grab the scenes that have Trixi in it, and essentially want to capture her speech again. And what I'm going to do is copy this and basically paste it here in 11 labs. Hopefully the ha ha ha ha will be a lot better than 11 Labs. I do know 11 Labs is a lot more advanced and sophisticated, so let's go ahead and maximize this and generate the speech. So you want to click on this button, or you can do a Shift Enter. And it generates fairly. Ha ha. Oh, I can't stop laughing. So that ha ha ha sounded so much better. We can increase the similarity to give it more expression and more of a realistic touch. So let's try, say, like, 80% on that and regenerate the speech. Ha. Oh, I can't stop laughing. That sounded a lot more realistic. That was a more realistic laugh. So as you can see, sometimes you need to play around with the settings, but that's really one of the cool features that 11 Labs AI offers here is that you can synchronize your voice over with the text. So again, sometimes you need to use more than one AI tool just to get that final polished look that you're looking for, right? So here we're going to take her second line, and let's go ahead. We're gonna keep the similarity high because I want it to sound as realistic as possible. Generate that speech. Extinct? No me. I've been here all along, hiding and laughing. Let me make that a little bit higher. So let's do 85%. See how that sounds. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, hiding and laughing. Alright, sounds good to me. Sounds really good. Next here, we have Trixi the third line. Make sure you remove the quotes, although I think 11 laps will bypass it anyway. But let's generate that speech. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Awesome. Sounds really good. This is amazing stuff, right? So let's go ahead and grab Trixie laughing again. And we'll generate this speech. Ha ha ha, stop. I can't take it. Ha ha. Let me boost this up to 100%. Ha ha. Stop. I can't take it. Ha ha. Alright, so you can play around with it and see what gives you a good feel. Ha ha ha. Stop. I can't take it. Ha ha ha. You can also exaggerate the style speech. So if you wanted to exaggerate it a little bit, we'll do, like, a 5% on that. Stop. I can't take it. Ha ha ha. I didn't like that. You can do more variable, more stable. Let's do a little bit more stability there. Stop. I can't take it. That's not bad. I'll go with that. Okay, so now we are on our last one here, where she says, I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. So I'm gonna keep the same settings and see how that sounds. If I need to adjust it, I will. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Similarity needs to be a little bit higher. Let's try that. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. It's fine with me. Okay. So we have our voiceovers. This is great. Now what we're going to do in our next video lesson is take those voiceovers. We have the scenes for Trixi. We're gonna put it all together, and we're going to generate a more quality based video of Trixi. 15. Enhancing Static Images Using Canva’s Powerful Tools: So before we move any forward, I want to show you how to utilize Canva AI tools to essentially sort of clean up any discrepancies or nuances from the static images that we've developed. So, for instance, we're going to be modifying Trixis animations to have a more polished look to them and to get them to look more realistic and lip sync them. But before that, you want to see that, for instance, there's no imperfections with the static images. So in my case, I've noticed that in this image right here, there's two tails, okay? What do you do when you have a situation like this? Well, in Canva, you can actually resolve this issue. So what I'll do is I'll essentially just go to create a new design once you've logged into Canva. I'll go to create a design. Okay, so once you've clicked on Created Design, we're going to select Custom Size and see what our custom size is here. So here our custom size is 12 80 by 768, so let's enter that in 128768. Click on Create New Design. And then we go to Uploads here and I'm going to click on the image that I want. Okay, so I also do want to modify this image right here because as you can see, there's an extra character, another dinosaur in there, and that's not really what I was aiming for initially. So in my case, I do want to remove that, especially because in the script, it says that the dinosaur Tricky is extinct, right? So that Ollie has only ever seen her. We're going to go ahead and grab this one as well and drop it in there. Now, let's open up our Canva. I'm going to start with the first one. And essentially what I'll do is I'll just make sure that it fits well in the window here. Then I'll click on Edit. And I'm going to use one of the AI tools in Magic Studio in Canva, and I'll click on Magic eraser. Alright, may want to increase the burst size slightly. So maybe like around 25 there. I'll zoom in, as you can see, there's that extra tail that I want to get rid of. I don't want that. So this is an unwanted image here, an unwanted feature in the image. And again, this is all just part of the whole refinement process that we're looking to implement here. So just make sure that you cover the tail, no more, no less. And let's click on race, and hopefully that gives us to us on the first time. Alright, so that looks pretty good on the first one. Let me reduce the verse size a little bit and scrab the extra area here, try to reduce that down some more. Okay. So something like that, hopefully should do it. Alright, that looks a lot better. So as you can see, it's almost not showing at all. So we can work with that. We're going to go ahead and click on Dwload. Save this as a PNG since it's a complex image. Download that. And in the meantime, let's go ahead and do our next one. So we can delete this photo now, go to Uploads again. Click on this image. Close that for now and bring this all the way down. Make sure that fits perfectly. Same situation. So go to Edit Magic Eraser. This time, I would increase the burst size a good amount more. I'd say maybe over 50 around 50 or so. And then that's it. So grab our character. We don't want this character to show. So we're going to delete that as much as possible there. Alright, so let's go ahead and click on a race. This should happen pretty fast, and there you go. So that looks a lot better. And then the animation, it'll look even better. So now I can download this. And there we go. We have our two images now. I'm going to open this up. There's our two images. I'm going to click on them both, cut and go to story Images, the folder where our images live. And at this point, I'm going to delete the former one. So this one was number seven to avoid confusion. Let's do seven first. And this is our new seven. And this is our new eight. So I'm going to go ahead and delete that one with the two tails. And this is now our new number eight. And there we go. So now we have our updated images, and we're at a point where we can take it to the next step, use these images and start bringing them more to life. So let's look at that in the next video lesson. 16. Animating Characters for Lively Expressions Using Dream Machine: All right, so now I'm going to show you how to take those scenes from the laughing dinosaur, specifically referring to Trixi the Triceratops, the laughing dinosaur. And we're going to take those specific scenes and animate them, okay? So now that we have our voiceovers, all we need to do at this point is take those same static images again, run them in a program called Lumas Dream Machine, AI, which I'll show you how to do, and then we'll have our animated version of those scenes for the dinosaur. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm going to introduce to you if you're not familiar with this application called Lumaabs. They have an app called Dream Machine. So you're simply going to go to this link right here, lumaabst AI slash Dream Machine, and I'll provide the link as usual. When you're here, click on Try now and basically sign in or login. So you'll be prompted with either signing in via Apple or your email, Google, for instance. I just signed in with my Gmail because I already have an account here. Then once you're here, you're essentially going to go to your grid. Click on that. It's going to take you to the Ida section. And these are images that I've generated in my past. Now, here's what we need to do. As you can see on the bottom here, there's a prompt. So you're going to want to open up the story Images folder, the initial one where we've saved all the images and take the ones that you want animated one by one, essentially, and let's go ahead and animate them. So we need to do this before we try to lip sync again. So I'm going to take this first one here, and I'm just going to drop it down, okay? Now, you can put an end frame, but we don't need to do that. We're just dealing with start frames right now. So at this point, you want to refer to the hat GPT log and find the text that matches the image, so we can kind of explain what happens. Now, you can essentially just click Run and it'll animate it for you, but if you want it to do something specific, you can do that. So for the first one, it's laughing, right? The dinosaur is laughing. So we can say, the dinosaur is laughing and we can try that. Let's run. So you're going to see that it will basically generate that, as you can see, there it is. So give that a minute or two. And we're basically going to do the same thing for all of them. Now we'll try. You can try this a couple of times to see which one you like the most. I think I'm going to do this one twice. Now, for the first one, I gave it a prompt, and for this time, I'm going to just do it again. But this time, I'm not going to say anything. I'm just going to have it do what I think is right. So let's take a look and see what came out here. Okay. So we have it moving, we have it animated. We may be able to use this. I'll just go ahead and download. Okay. And I want to see what the second one is going to do. And then, you know, you can choose which one you like better. It's obviously up to you. But let's go ahead while it's doing that. Oh, it's already done. Alright, so this one I didn't give any prompt. It looks really bad. So I'm not gonna go with this. I'm gonna delete it. I think that first one was fine. Seems okay. Probably use this right here. It seems alright for what we're trying to do. Okay, so we'll go with that. Now, the next one, I'm going to take this image right here, drop it down. And what does the chat log say? Let's refer to it. So here the chat log for the second scene where Trixie talks. So she's basically talking. So in this case, I'm just going to say the character speaks and moves its lips. That's it. That's sufficient. So let's allow that to generate. In the meantime, let me go ahead and grab the next one. So you can do more than one. Let's grab this one right here, drop that down. And in that very next scene, Trixie is, again, just basically speaking again. So here we can say the same thing. So the character is speaking. Okay, we'll allow that to run. Yes, so we have this one right here. Alright, so for this one, we're gonna say the character is laughing. We can try sing hysterically, because this is the one where the dinosaur is meant to laugh a lot. Grab this 11 more time, and here I'm just going to say the character is speaking. Just keep that one simple. Let's take a look at how all these came out. So here's that very first one, which you said we're keeping. This one looks really good. Let's download this one. So, so you might want to generate a few times, you know, see which ones would work for you. Okay, so now what we do, since we have our five scenes, we're going to grab those five. So that's one, two, three, four, five, right here. We're gonna put it in this one folder Trixi that we've created earlier that has the audio recordings. And then once we've done that, here we are. I'd probably be good to label them. So we're going to say this is one and then this is two. This is our three, or four here, and then this is our last one. Okay. Nice and organized. So you have the voiceover, you have the animation. And then at this point in time, we can take those two and use another program so that we can have a final better product for our AI animated video story. So let's look at that in the next video lesson. 17. Incorporating Animated Clips for Dynamic Storytelling in Canva: Alright, so now we've reached a point in time where we have our art flow draft, the initial draft that we created, and then we have all the scenes that we generated for Trixi using Luma Labs dream Machine. And then we also have our voiceovers that we were able to generate with 11 labs. So at this point, there's two options. Option one, you can go with these clips and just clip them together in either Capco or Canva basically like a video editing software or option two. You can take you can take it a step further, and you can try to lip sync the audio with the video clips. So either way, we're going to take these new 11 labs audio clips and merge them with the video clips that we have here. But if you wanted the lips themselves synced, well, that's a whole other thing, right? So there are AI tools to do this. Artflow didn't do the best job. And the reason being, according to my research, is that with animals, it doesn't work as good, and that's with all AI tools across the board right now. So maybe in the future, AI will be sophisticated and intelligent enough to do this with animals in an easier way. But right now, in order to do this, you want to try to use you can try to use rather Runway ML, which is one program that does this. You can try to use HRTA AI. You can try to use sync labs and a couple of other programs, but none of them are fully supportive of animals at this time, right? So they all support humanoids. They support human beings, but they don't support animals yet. So we can try to do that. So for the time being, I'm just going to clip them together in Canva because at least we've upgraded these video clips so that the dinosaur is animated, and there is some lip movement, so it will somewhat match the voice. But do keep in mind in the future, if you wanted to lip sync them or try them, you can use one of those lip sync programs. Now, for now, we're just going to piece it all together and see how that looks like we're going to do our best. So what we do is we essentially open up Canva so when we get to Canava, we're going to create a new design here and we're going to select video ten ADP. Okay? And once we're here, it's a matter of just grabbing our initial art flow draft because that is one of the main clips that we're going to be using for editing our final video. And then we also want to upload all of our five scenes for Trix because that's the modification. Okay? So we're going to take this and drop these as well and give that a quick minute to upload. So if we go to videos here, as you can see, they're uploading, and it uploads fairly quickly. So the art flow one is already uploaded. Ali loved exploring the jungle near his home. So just make sure it fits well. Loud, happy laugh and followed it. Okay. So make sure that fits well there. And what we will need to do in this case is basically remove the parts, split them really where the dinosaur is talking, right? So let's start doing that. So the first one is right around here. So you want to clip it right before there. So say, right there. So we're gonna split the page and move on. Px one. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Okay, and you want to kind of do this throughout. So we'll split it again here. Okay. And we're gonna delete this because we're not gonna use that right now. We're gonna replace it with the new stuff. Okay, so let that load for a second there, and then go and see where the next clip is. That's right there. Okay, so split it. Then I keep moving on. Alright. And then, honestly, you just need to kind of go through this and do the rest of the clips. So we're just going to move to the very next one here. There's a lot of precision involved so make sure that you do this right. Split it there. This is the second one that we delete. Alright. So moving on. Grab the third one there right before the new clip shows. Let's keep on going here. We're right about here. I delete that. I think we have one or two more. So then let's keep going. So we're going to stop right around here. Right there. This is good. And keep on going. And then we truncate again once more here. So this is our fourth clip. We do have one more, so let's remove that. Okay, so that's going to start right there. And it's going to end right here. And this is the beauty of Canvas. You can pretty much edit it how you like, right? So this is an AI generated video, but we're going to add our own touch to it. That's what makes it really nice. So we split that right there and delete that. Okay, perfect. So now we take our new scenes and we apply them. So here's what we do. We go to uploads, and then we have our five scenes. Our very first one is right here. I'm going to take that and basically insert it right there. Okay. Don't worry about the watermark. So loud. And funny. Okay, so don't worry about this watermark. I'm going to show you how to remove that later on. But for now, this is. And funny. Okay, awesome. So we do need to insert subtitles again, which is fine. I mean, we can do that. We'll use subtitles that look similar to this. So we'll get to that part soon, but we keep going here. And then let's just add all the clips first. So that was the first one. Then the second one. So our second one is right here. We're gonna take that and drop it right there. Okay? That is our second video. And then we take our third one, which will be right here. And that third one is our third one is this one right here, so we're going to take that and drop it right there. Okay. Getting close. And then we take our fourth one, which is essentially going to go right there between these two. And that fourth one is right here. And we're basically going to drop that right there. So that's our fourth one. And then finally, we have our last one, which is which is this guy right here. We're going to take that and drop that there. Okay. Perfect. So that is the full video. Now, let's look at this. In the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Okay. This is great. So now what we've done so far is we just clip together all the video clips, right? So we put together all the videos under one project. The next step will be to add the voiceovers, and then I'll show you how to kind of merge it with transitions and then add those subtitles. So let's look at that in the very next video lesson. 18. Adding Voiceover Audio to Animated Stories with Canva: All right, so for the next step, what we're going to do now is go to audio, and then you want to upload those five audio clips. So you can do them one by one if you want it, or you can just upload all five. But here we go. We're going to just go ahead and drop those in here. One, two, three, four, five, that should upload fairly quickly. Then we're going to take the first one and just drop it here. Okay. Now, we'll play around with this later, but let's just add the audio to the appropriate scenes. And then the second one then the second one will go here. We have the third one going here. The fourth one will be right here. And finally, the fifth one is going right here. Okay. So let's look at this. Let's make the voices match as much as possible. Oh, and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Okay, so we don't need all of this. So what we're gonna do is bring this down. This is about 2 seconds, right? So we're gonna make this match with the audio here. So we have 2.3 seconds on the audio. So we're gonna match that to 2.3 seconds as well. Let's take a look at how that looks like. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. I can't stop laughing. So we can expand this out a little bit because we're gonna add transitions. So I'll say maybe 2.9 seconds. Let's see how that looks like. Stop laughing. Okay, let's go. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Okay, so now we add our next voice here. So let's bring that over here like that. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Wire. Okay. Looks good. Are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? Alright, let's move this over here and see how that looks. If we need to modify it, we will. Funny. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Really? Okay. So we need to here's what we're going to do. In order to make the audio match better with the clip, we're going to slow it down a little bit. So I'm gonna sho you a little trick. So we're gonna click on this. We're going to go to Edit. Then we're going to go to video speed and we'll make this. Let's do 0.75. It'll be a little slower. It'll give us more time and it'll also get rid of that part at the end that we don't want that doesn't look too good. So let's see how that looks like. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Okay, so we can make that just a little bit slower. I think we can do like 0.65. Let's try that. And then we'll bring this down like this, something like that. And let's take a look again. We just got to kind of play around a little bit. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Real? Which makes me laugh uncontrollably. So it kind of truncated part of that audio so you want to make sure that everything shows there. Give it enough space enough room. And let's see if that gives us to us a little better. So, again, you just got to kind of modify it until you get it right. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Okay, I'm going to slow down just a little bit more. We're gonna do this at 05.5 will do it just right. That definitely gives us enough space, enough time to work with. So here we are. And let's see how that came out now. Funny. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. So good. Really? Let me try. Stop. I can't take it. Ha. Mm. Alright. So this is looking, it's looking pretty good. Let's just reduce that down a little bit. Let's, I think we're at the max there, so get the maximum audio on that. And let's see how that came out again. Stop. I can't take it, haha. Okay. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Alright, I'm gonna bring this somewhere near the beginning. Make that little shorter there. And let's see how that looks. N. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Okay. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole on to laugh. Awesome. Alright. So there you have it. We just put together the voices with all the video clips, and we're making a video story out of it. This is really exciting. So it's coming out pretty good. As you can see, I didn't use a lip syncing tool necessarily, but it looks pretty decent. It still looks like it's sort of complements. Like the audio complements the video clips that we basically generated with dream Machine, with Luma Abs. So I think we're okay for now. Now the next step is I'm going to show you how to transition transitions adds some nice effects to it. So let's take a look at that in the very next video lesson. 19. Adding Scene Transitions using Canva for Smooth Video Flow: So in this lesson, we're just going to look at how to add transitions in our clip here. So as you can see, we've pieced together all the audios, the voiceovers for Trixi. We made it a little better. Now, by the way, this is worth mentioning, but you can do the same thing for Ollie, as well. If you wanted to use 11 Labs, say you don't like his voice, it's a little bit robotic, right? I'm going to leave it for the time being, but just for your knowledge. If you don't like it, if you're not satisfied with it, you can certainly generate your own voice for him using 11 labs and do the same thing that we've done for Trixi here. You don't necessarily have to use dream labs and get him to animate himself more if you don't want to. His lips are pretty synced up here, even though he's not moving, but his lips are pretty synced up. So the story is kind of flowing well. So I'm just putting that on the table that if you wanted to do that, that's an option for you. For now, I'm going to leave him as is. Now, in this specific video, what I want to cover is the transitions. So transitions are fairly straightforward, but they do give a nice professional look to your video story. So all you need to do for transitions in Canva, and you can do this in Capcut too, is you're going to want to just select here between the scenes, add transitions. So I'm going to click on that and then just select the scene that matches, right? So you can do a matching move. You can do a dissolve. You can do a slide, whatever it is that you want to add to make it look funner, right? So I like to use match and move and dissolve a lot, but you can certainly do what you want. I'm going to do match and move here. Now, sometimes you do want to adjust the duration of the seconds here, so I'm just going to make these brief transitions. Instead of 0.5, like around 0.5 seconds, which is usually the standard, I'm just going to do around 0.2 seconds. So let's see how this first one came out. Oh, and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. That's fine. And you don't necessarily need a transition on every single one. You certainly can put one if you wanted to. So let's try a dissolve here, and again, we'll do a 0.2. Let's take a look at how that came out. Okay, so with Canvas, sometimes you got to re run it just to make sure it runs well. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct. Okay. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Alright, so let's just keep doing this, all the way across. So match and move. I like to do it at, like, 0.2 or 0.25. So we're just gonna do this kind of across the board and see how it comes out. And I'll try different ones here. Okay, so we'll try different. We can even try, like, a slide. For instance, I'll do one slide here. To give it a little bit of a different look each time. We'll try. This is a flow. That's a stack. We'll try a stack here. 0.2. You can select which direction you want the stack or the transition to go. So we'll do another stack here and we'll put this down at 0.2 as well. I just like to add transition between them because it does give a nice professional touch to it. And then we'll just do another dissolve here. Once again, at 0.2. And then here, we can do a flow. And it's a short 1.3. Okay, that's it. So let's go and take a look. And 40. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. A dinosaur. So sometimes as you're playing it here, it won't be perfect because it's a video editing software. But when you do export your final video, it comes out, ideal. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Really? Let me try. This is coming out good. Alright, so that's the idea of transitions, as you can see, we're just going to transition between each of these scenes until we get to that now. I do want to remove this last part here. Laugh. Because we don't need this art flow AI part, right? So we're gonna remove that. So just make sure that you get it right before right around there should be good. And I'll delete that. So this is what we do to laugh. There we go. Alright, so that basically covers all the transitions that I wanted for the video. And there's a couple more things we need to do. We want to add some maybe effects. We want to add some background music, and we want to add subtitles, at least for the parts that don't have subtitles. And then that will essentially complete our video story here. So let's start doing that in the next video lessons. 20. Adding Sound Effects to Elevate Your Storytelling using Canva: Okay, so in this video lesson, we're going to continue giving our video a more professional look. It's AI animated, so we do want to add our personal touch to it. Now, here's what we're going to do. We're going to add some background effects, some background music to make it look nice and sound nice. So we're going to go to our elements. And then when you're here, click on audio. And then we're going to search for Let's do background effects first because those are easier. So here I'm going to type in birds chirping. Okay? So select the one that you like. And there's many premium ones. There's also others that are free, so it all depends on what you want. Okay, so that's a nice background noise there. So we're just gonna take this one here and drop it right in there to complement it. And we may not use the whole thing because we only need it for a part of it, right? So we'll stop it somewhere around I mean, as a matter of fact, we can really have it around this whole thing. So let's see how it sounds. I loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. He a loud, happy laugh and followed it. Well, we want to have, like, a loud, happy laugh. So we're going to say loud laugh. But as a human laugh. Okay, so let's put that somewhere around here. It's only a second long, but we do want that somewhere. It's gonna give it a nice look. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed. Maybe a little bit. Maybe a tiny bit more. See how it comes up. I heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. Put it right a little bit after that narration. It sounded a lot better. I heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. That sound. It's so loud and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Okay. Wow. A dinosaur. Alright, awesome. So we can have these morning birds chirp all around, but I think I'm just gonna leave it for the first one here. We're gonna have background music anyway. So now you want to just kind of think about what other effects you want. So here Dior Aren't you supposed to be extinct? I think here. Oh, I can't. The dinosaurs kind of walking, so we can maybe have some noise there. So like walking. Just walking in general. Like footsteps on grass. Okay. Work with that. That sounds pretty cool. Funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. So that sounds really good. Oh. Anywhere where the dinosaur is walking, we can do that. So we have this, I think, one of the other clips as well, where the dinosaurs kind of walking. Yes. So we can put that here as well. So we're just gonna take that and drop it on this clip, as well. So as you can see, you want to make the background effects meaningful. Ever. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. How much. Awesome. Alright, so try to think about what other effects you want. If you don't want any, then it's fine. We can just take that bird's chirping again and drop it here. So then now what we could do is we could search for sort of like a children's tune, right? So something that will sound complimentary to what we have going on here. So let's see. So it all depends on what kind of vibe you want, right? You want to look around a little bit and see which one is best for your case. I was aiming for more of a bedtime story. But at the same time, it is supposed to be something funny. So let's see if we can find here. Let's type in children's story instead and see if something can come out better. Okay. You can see the genres here. This one actually sounds really cool. It's like a children's sort of, like, funny background type. So might use this one, actually. So if I wanted to use this, all I need to do really is just take this and put it down here. And that's it. We're not going to make it that loud, but let's see. So it's too loud, obviously. So what we need to do is click on the volume, and you're gonna make this really low. Let's try putting it down to, like, seven and see if that's a good volume for us. Oli loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. I think this audio is actually amazing for this. So that's our audio. That's what I'm going to go with all the way to the end. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. All right. I think it's fine. Actually sounds really good. Now one thing you could do is you can fade them in and out, so we will want to do that, so you're gonna click on Fade. Let's just fade them like a second in. So we'll fade it a second in and we'll fade it a second out. So we're just going to click one and Enter. So that'll fade it out by itself. In laugh. And it'll fade it in by a second, as well. It gives it a nice sound. Ollie loved exploring the jungle uses. Sounds a lot better. Alright. Awesome. So that's how we add background effects and how we add background audio. So, in this case, this is coming out really well. And now that we're done with audio, we're done with the transitions. We're done with putting all the videos together. We just need one more thing, which is to add those subtitles for Trix's part. So let's go ahead and do that in the next video lesson. 21. Perfecting Subtitles to Make Stories Accessible with Canva: Okay, so now we're at the last step where we want to add subtitles to the clips that require them, which are really just the ones with the dinosaur. So there is an app in Canva you can search for. It's called Animated Subtitles. If you want it to, you can use it. But I think it's probably quicker and easier in our case here to just since it's only a couple of clips, we can just put the subtitles in directly and just have it work for us that way. Okay. So as long as you get the matching font, we're okay there. We can just add them in. But if you wanted to, you can certainly use this app. The only thing is, you're going to have to make sure that you piece it all together properly. So I prefer to just add it in. I usually would use this for, like, bigger projects. But here, we're just adding subtitles for a few of them. So, in addition to the Canva app that I showed you, where you can use the animated subtitles, there's also this dynamic text option here. Once you go to text, you can actually do captions for specific scenes as well. It may or may not be detected. Usually, it works better with human beings. But for our case right now, I'm just going to click on texts and create these the manual away. So I'm going to add a subheading, and then once I've done that, I want to select a font that matches what we have. So we'll try this one. And it's really important to add the right effect and colors. So we want a So I guess we'll take a white background. And with the effects, we want to outline that. So the outline needs to be black. Perfect. And the thickness of that, well, we don't want this bald another good tip I'll give you is you want to add this so that it's just make it close to one of the existing subtitles to match it as much as possible. So definitely bring the size down on that. Let's see, 40 will work a little better, and it helps to also write the same thing in. So happy laugh and followed it. So it's a little off. Looks like the outline needs to be thicker. So let's start with that thickness. So let's see, it's a lot better. Okay. It's still a little large, right? So you want to make sure that it fits well. Let's see if that does it. Now it looks almost identical, honestly. I think we'll go with that. Alright, so we now have our font, so I can basically remove it here. Once I've copied it, I can just paste it here and bring it down so make sure the subtitles around the same location throughout. So this is kind of all the way near the bottom. So that's fine. We can just move it down here. And you want to open up hechiBT because that's where we have our text, and we're going to grab that first one here and basically drop that in there. Okay, basically, you're just going to do that for the rest of them real quick. So once you've already placed it in the right location, it'll save that in memory. And we just grab the next one and just keep doing it for the other scenes. This one goes here. I'm going to say extinct, not me. Okay, awesome. Moving along. So basically drag and drop that copy and paste. So basically copy and paste that. Then we go here, we grab our next one. And enter that one and so this one is a little bit larger of text, but that's okay. We're just going to bring this up uncontrollably. So that ends right there. Okay, awesome. And then we just keep going. We have two more clips to do this. So we have two more clips. Make sure you just, again, copy and paste and grab the next text. So we got two more of these. I'm going to copy that, paste it in here. Bring it down again, make sure it's all the way down. And finally, we have one more, which is right here. So you can copy and paste from any of the previous ones and just paste that in there. Grab that final text. And lo and behold, this is our last one right here. Awesome. So that should complete our video. That should be everything we're looking for for the time being. The subtitles are close enough. So we're gonna go Oh, wow. And 40. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. Yeah, so the subtitles are fine. They're close enough. Alright, so now what we're going to do is we're going to export this final video. So I'm going to go to Download and just download the whole thing. Don't download the separate files, of course. This is a final product, so it's one file. So just download that. And really, at this point, the next step is just review it, see if you want to touch it up anymore. But at this point, it's ready for sharing. I would say that you want to if you wanted to remove the watermark, I'm going to show you how to do that. But it's not mandatory. Personally, I like to remove them, so I'm going to show you how to blur this out and still keep good video quality. We do want to remove this art flow watermark from the video, and I'll show you how to do that in the very next video lesson. As this is downloading, I'll also be providing you the final video stories so that you can watch them and enjoy them for yourself. 22. Removing Watermarks to Finalize Your Video Stories: So one of the enhancements that I wanted to share with you was how to remove watermarks or logos if you have them in your videos. So we're creating video stories here, and oftentimes we're using programs and apps that aren't necessarily Watermark free initially, at least, they give you a trial, but they say in return, A, we'll give you a free trial, use it how you like, but you're going to have a watermark on there. So if you wanted to remove those watermarks and take advantage of the free trials, I'm going to show you how to do that. Basically, all you need to do is use one of these programs. There's a couple of them out there. I like this one. There are other ones. For example, there's another one called Media IO that's just as good, but I tend to like this one. I found it more favorable. It's just online videocutter.com slash Remove Logo. I'll provide the link, of course. And here all we need to do is just open up the file and highlight over the part where you want the watermark removed, and then it'll do the job just fine. So I'm going to click on File. We're going to pick one of the video stories that we've generated already. Could be any of them really. I have a couple of them here. I think I'm just going to pick the Ollie and tricky one, the narration version. Here we have one main logo throughout, so we have this logo here, and this is what we want to remove. All we need to do is the option that you want to click on when you're at online videocutter.com is go to the bottom and click on Remove Logo. Once you do that, all you want to do is just highlight the portion that you want removed. Okay? So the portion I want removed is just basically right here. This is all I want out. Then that's pretty much it. You're just going to highlight over it. You're going to click Apply, and lo and behold, it gets applied immediately. Now, all things considered, it's great. I mean, the final output of this is so good. You know, it's not going to be perfect, but it's so good that it's not even noticeable, right? And it's definitely much better than having a watermark on there the whole time. In any case, that's pretty much it. Then what we do is once you have that ready, you're satisfied with it. You're going to click on this button here on the bottom at the left hand side. I'll click on Save, and then you can pick what you want to export to. So 720 P is free. You can export it as such. I believe I have a premium account because I use this often. So in my case, I'll have high definition. So if you do want that, there will be a small fee to it, but it's very cheap. In any case, you can always just get the 720 P, or if you want to work around and you don't want to pay for the ten ADP, what you can do is you can take this video once you've downloaded it or exported it with 720 P, and you can insert it in a free program like CAPCuT for example, in Cap CA, you can actually upscale your resolution. That's just a food for thought there, just a hint, a tip, if you will. Then that's pretty much it. It'll process fairly quickly, and then you'll get to see your final exported video without the watermark. So we'll take a look at that right now. Click on Save. It's ready to go. And then I'm just going to click on it and show you how it looks like. With a heart full of happiness, a little Explorer entered the green jungle. So as you can see, you can't really see much of it. I mean, noticeable throughout the whole I mean, throughout the whole story, you don't really notice it much, right? So it looks fairly well. Looks great. There, in a burst of giggles lay a creature of dreams, a joyful triceratops with laughter spilling from every corner. Alright, so this is obviously the very first narration that we worked on, but the point is just to show you how to use this tool. You can use this for any video that you want. And throughout the whole video, it's not really noticeable. So it looks great. On. And really, that's pretty much it, right? So as long as you understand how to use this tool or an equivalent tool, it's just a matter of removing the logo or the watermark and you're good to go. And you can produce final videos without watermarks and give it a nicer professional touch. 23. Creating More Expressive Animations Using Kling AI: I want to introduce another tool that you can use for your AI video story animations. There's a fairly new app called King AI, and this is really good. It's a little bit more animated than Runway ML and Dream Machine. What it will do is it'll take your static images and make it so that your characters are more animated. They have more life to them. They have more expressions. So a lot more expressive when I've compared it to other AI tools. So I did want to introduce this as a bonus. And basically, what you would need to do here is essentially upload your photos. I've already generated a couple, but I'll show you how to do one or two here. Now, it's awesome because it's a fairly new platform, so you do get some credits available with it. So it comes with some free credits. I think it's like 360 credits or so, which is great. It's actually a good amount. So let me go ahead and just do the first one here. I'm going to upload. So once you're at the appropriate folder, then I'm just going to select one or two here and just show you how it's done. All right, so I've already generated one for each of these two right here. So let's do this, say these two for instance, okay? So I'm going to pick this very first one here, and then basically load it into the frame. Now for prompt, you don't actually need a prompt for this. It's optional, so I'm going to leave it blank and my goal is just to have this a little bit more so that the character is more expressive. That's my intentions here. Then for settings, you can focus more on creativity or relevance. I'm going to keep it somewhere in the middle and then the mode. So you do get five trial uses to begin with, which are excellent quality, and that is a limitation of 5 seconds, which is fine for each clip. And that's pretty much it. I'm going to keep it on professional mode for now. I still have two trial uses. I'm going to, take advantage of that. At this point, I'm just going to click on Generate and allow that to render. It's in the queue. It takes about a couple of minutes. I like the fact that it tells you how long it's going to take. You'll see it says about 4 minutes there. Let's allow that to take effect. All right, so here we have the result of the video, as you can see, a lot more expressive, a lot more animated, and also a little bit more mouth movement, which may help because of the lip syncing issues that we've been having with animal characters, which by the way, there is a lip syncing feature here, but the face has to be constantly or consistently visible. And with animals, it just hasn't been working well. It doesn't work well with animal characters as all the other AI tools. But hopefully AI will advance in the near future where it can handle these kind of characters. All right, so let's do one more. I'm going to go ahead and actually download this. I like it. It will download it with the Watermark, but I'm not too concerned about that because we can always remove it, as you know. Okay, so one more. This time, I'm actually going to grab this one right here. So let's take that one. Okay. So there's our new one there. I do want the character here to walk. I'm just going to say walking. I'll keep everything else the same and just basically generate it. Put it in the queue. It'll take about 4 minutes, and that's about it. I think that was the last one I had for professional modes. Now I'm going to be in standard mode if I do want to generate anymore. I still have 191 credits, and I was able to generate all these nice ones here. So all of these are actually really good. As you can see, they're very expressive, animated. They look great. So here's the result of that one. Came up fairly decent. Not too bad. Again, more expressive, more animated. So I like it. Let's just download it for now. Okay, so that's how you do it. I may generate a couple of more using the standard and see how that comes out, but again, just a bonus AI tool that you can utilize. Now, what I'm going to do is probably go through them and see which ones are best for my final video clip, and I may go back and update it so that the final video looks even better, okay? So the whole process of refinement is very applicable when you're dealing with animated video stories. So it's not just a, you know, one time done deal. Sometimes you can go back, you can edit, you can make them better. Why not, right? So there's always room for further enhancements and perfection. So that's my goal here is to share with you all the tools, all the knowledge that I know on this topic so that you can go ahead and do the same. So I will share the final video with these updates so you can see it as well. 24. Synchronizing Animations and Voiceovers for Animal Characters in Canva: In this lesson, we're going to take it to the next step and use those AI generated videos that we were able to produce with Klang AI and essentially continue to enhance our final video. So as you know, in this section of the course, we're focusing on enhancements and final production. So we're looking to do a final wrap up of this project so that you can ultimately take these same lessons that are learned and apply them for your endeavors and your projects. So let's get to it. Basically, what I did is I captured new clips, and you can see there's a one dash. You can see here there's a one under score two, so that's basically the second version of the first clip of the scene for Trixie. I have a 1-3 here. If I wanted an additional one, I have a two. Rather underscore one underscore three. I have a two underscore two, a three underscore two, four underscore two, five underscore two. So that basically means that for each scene, I have sort of a second option, an alternative, and these are the alternatives that were generated through Kang AI. And so what we're going to do now is I've already uploaded them on Canva. I'm just going to take them and replace them with the existing trixi clips that I have in Canva right now. The reason why I want to do that is because these are more animated, more expressive. They're also more talkative. So there's a higher potential for lip syncing because the character is talking throughout all of these clips. So this is sort of a workaround. It's essentially a workaround for lip syncing with animal characters using AI because as I mentioned, that's still something that's a work in progress in the AI world. So let's get right to it. The first clip where Trick S's encountered is right here, where she says, a ha ha. Oh, I can't stop laughing. So I have a new one. I'd like to try it out. I'm just going to click on it. Always keep in mind how long, how many seconds this section is, so it's 2.7 seconds. This clip is 5.1 that I want to insert. So I'll make it work. I'll click on it. And we need it to be around 2.7 seconds. I'm just going to modify it accordingly. So what I can do is I can delete the former and just put this right on top of here and not have to worry about subtitles because subtitles are already there. And then, basically, that's it. I mean, it's just a matter of choosing the best sort of part to lip sync. So she says, ha ha ha, I can't stop laughing. So maybe somewhere around here where she starts, like, laughing, right? Something like that might make a little sense. So let's cut it right around here and see how that looks like. That's about 2.6 seconds. That's not bad, actually. So, you know what? Maybe I'll truncate it just a little bit earlier than that. So you want to get it to be as close as possible, so I'll do something say around here. Let's see what that gives us. Wow, so that actually gives us 2.7 right there. Alright, that's some good luck. So let's see how that comes out. A Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. Wow. My wow synced up with his. That's funny. But notice the lip syncing looks so much better now. Let's take a look. And funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. I worked out really well. So we're gonna go with that. We can even reduce the transition just a slight bit. So here we're gonna say 0.1 seconds. We'll do the same here as well. We'll do a point 1 second transition, so that'll probably give it a little bit more meaning. Let's run it again. Funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. So, as you can see, that looks a lot better. Definitely fits the script more. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Wow. Okay, so we're going to go with that. And this is basically what we're gonna do for the rest of the clips. So the very second one is this one right here where she says extinct, not me. I've been here all along just hiding and laughing. So we're looking at 4.8 seconds on this clip. That's the requirement. We're gonna take this one right here. It's 5.1 seconds, but let's see if we can fit it better. So just make sure that fits in well there. Alright. So you want to make sure that comes out, well, let's see how that looks like as is. Alright, let's run that back. Extinct. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Alright, we're close. I think what we could do is we could cut off a little bit in the beginning. So maybe something, like, around here. Just cut off that little part in the beginning there, say 0.3 seconds. Let's see if that, you know, sinks it up a little better. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along just hiding in. Why are you laughing so loudly? Okay, so what I'd like to do is maybe slow down a tad bit that might do the job. So you got to kind of play around with this a little bit, as you recall. So we'll just do 0.8 seconds. That also increases the time a little bit. Games. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, hiding and laughing. Oh, where you laughing so loud? That looks so much better. So we're gonna go at that. Extinct. Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, hiding and laughing. Where? Perfect. So, I mean, that looks so good. Let's keep going. So as you can see, this is a cool workaround because I haven't really used the lip sync tool, but essentially, I just used the video generation tool, another one, and it worked for us, okay? So I just essentially utilized Kling AI, gave us more expression, and looks like that's working for us so far. So let's keep going here. So for the third clip, this one needs a lot of work. Initially, I just had, you know, Trixi's mouth open as seen, and she doesn't really talk here. So that's not good, right? We definitely want to give it a better look. So we're at 6.6 seconds on that. I'm gonna go ahead and delete this. We're gonna take this third clip right here. We need 6.6 seconds. So keep that number in mind. It helps. And let's run this through. We might have to slow this down a little bit from what I see thus far. So let's do 0.7. It might be a little too much. Maybe 0.75. That's 6.6 seconds right there. Alright, perfect. Let's see how that comes out. I don't know what to expect. Bunny. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Alright. That came out good. Now, as you can see, it's not the best, you know, quality here for the AI, but when you run it through, you know, it kind of fits the script well overall. So let's look at that one more time. Lip sync looks pretty decent on that. So funny. It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Oh, I mean, it looks good so far. We're gonna go to the next one here. This one is at 4.1 seconds. So let's take this clip and delete it and drop this one in here. So we need about 4.1 seconds on that one. Bring this down. Okay. And here, we'll take this 4.9 seconds. We probably need that to go down a little bit. So we may actually need to speed this one up, in this case. So let's say I do 1.2. And let's see how that comes out. Let's run it. Me try. Hold on. That is not synced up. Let's try again. Let me try. Stop. I can't. Oh, the audio is a little off. Let's fix that. So let's put that here and let's run it again. Let me try. Stop. I can't take it. Huh. Nice. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. Okay, so this one needs work, too. So we're gonna go ahead and take this clip right here. Once again, we're gonna delete it. We'll enter this one in and make that fit in. Awesome. And this is cool because the watermark is actually getting cleared out here by itself on some of these clips. So let's run this through and see how that looks like. I think we'll need to probably make this one faster, as well. So let's see if we can do a point a 1.2 on that. Let's see what that gives us. Run it. I've never met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. So we just want to sync up the audio a little bit now, so we're gonna take this audio. Just move it a little bit here. And let's try that again. See how that sounds. Me. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Come on, Trick. I's a lot better. Let's try again. I've never met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Okay. Very good. Let me do more of a transition on that. 0.3. I think it'll look better. Ever met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Come on, trenching. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Oh, this is great. Alright, so we've done a lot more work with lip syncing, with enhancing the animations for Trixi's part. And I also want to look at how to improve Ali's voice because his voice does sound a little robotic. So again, what we're doing is we started with a model, and we're continuing to enhance until we make our video as polished as possible, as clean and as presentable as possible to the point that folks won't even think or know that it was AI generated, right? So that's the idea here. My goal for all my video courses are not just to use AI, for auto generation, but to leverage AI, right? So let AI work for you, but at the same time, use it to your advantage so that you can produce good quality footage and add your own professional touch to it, okay? So sort of like your own video signature, in this case, or animation signature. That's what we're looking to do. And so in the next video lesson, I'm going to look into how to improve Ollie's voice a little bit better. So we'll look at that together. We'll end up using 11 labs, and then we'll take his voice and just sink it in with our Canva clip here to improve it. But for now, I'm going to provide this version of the MP four, the video that we've produced thus far, so you can see the progressive development. And we can as we go along, progressively reach our goals and just continue to enhance until we reach the end of the course. 25. Animate Human Characters in Dream Machine: So as you've noticed, our video has improved significantly by adding new features and utilizing various AI tools. So for the next step in this section of the course, where we're enhancing the video further and further, and again, as I mentioned, if you want progressively, you can choose where your stopping point is. But for our next step, what we're going to do is we're going to look at taking all these static images that were generated with art flow initially. And although rtflow provided us some lip movement and lip syncing, we're going to improve it, okay? So you can certainly stop at what Art flow has done for us. That's completely fine, if you wish. But again, for this course, my goal is to provide you the means to escalate and elevate the overall professional outlook of leveraging AI for creating animated children's stories using video editing programs. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to take his static images, the main character, that is, and we're going to use a tool called Dream Machine. By Luma labs as we've used before. And we're going to use Lumaabs dream machine to generate those video clips for the static images that we have of Ali to make them more animated, right? Because right now, if you look a lot of the clips for Ali are just his mouth moving, right? So we don't have much movement of his body or the surroundings. So, I mean, for a children's video story, it's definitely more fun and appealing and also probably a more professional touch if you do provide more life. However, it depends on the type of story that you're trying to direct right, to your audience, to your children's audience. So with some children, with some set of children, you may want to just leave it like this, and that's completely fine. But if you wanted to move it and make it more animated, we're going to do that right now. So that's what this video lesson is for. In sense, we're going to continue on here, and let's go to Dream Machine. So I already have this open, and this is where we've used it before to generate a couple of videos for Trixie, the Laughing dinosaur. So I'm just going to select Ali's images here. And the reason why I'm using Dream Machine, by the way, as opposed to King AI, which I've also introduced in one of the previous video lessons is because with King AI, as I mentioned, it's a lot more expressive for characters, as I found, and I don't think we need that much expression from Ali. We do want some, but I don't want it to be exaggerated, whereas with Trixie, she's the laughing dinosaur. I wanted her character to be a little bit more animated and exaggerated. And I kind of for this video story, I want a balance between both characters. So I don't want them, you know, to both be exaggerated. And expression, I want one to be a little bit more expressive than the other. So that's why I'm choosing dream machine because of Dream machine because with dream machine, it is somewhat less expressive unless if you really prompt it to be more expressive. But by default, it's less. So we're going to use dream machine for the generation of the images to video, and then we're going to use Runway to lip sync those. We shouldn't have a problem with lip syncing Ollie's voice to his lip movement using Runway or any AI tool because it's a human character. Without further ado, let's go ahead and proceed. So I'm going to click on the images here on the bottom. Start with the first image. Now, you can prompt it to say something, but here I'm just going to say excited, okay, because here this is where he's excited to see the dinosaur. And one word suffices. You can provide more if you want, but it's completely fine if you just enter a single word. I'm going to just do a couple of these. So for this one, we want to say that maybe he's surprised, right? So here we want to say that he's surprised and see what that gives us. Just kind of like different expressions. And here, you know, we're actually not gonna do anything. Let's try one where we don't say anything. So we're just trying different options here. And here, we're going to say, he moves forward, right? Because he wants to go tickle the dinosaur at this point. Okay, these are generating fairly quickly, as you can see, they're coming in. And then we have two more. And I'm not doing this in order necessarily. They're close enough in order. So here we won't generate any prompt for it. We'll just enter it in as such and have it auto generate. And then we got one more. And I'll enter this one in as well. Okay, while those are queuing, let's look at these. So if the character starts to lose character, starts to lose sort of the consistent look, I wouldn't go with it. So you do want to make sure that you look at them and see if they work for you. So I actually didn't like this one. I'm gonna ignore it. Let's take a look at how this one came out. So a couple glitches there. I mean, it looked alright, but it was a few glitches. This one, I mean, maybe, like, the beginning part was okay, where he was, like, moving a little. Alright, this one is really good. So I think this one is fine. It's actually perfect. So I like that one a lot. Let's take a look at this one. Tends to lose character a little bit later on in the clip. Man, let's look at this one. This one's way too far fetched, so we're not going with that. So as you can see, you kind of want to just see which one you like. So far, you know, we've had success with this one right here. This one came out great. This one is so so, right? And I mean, some of these you can, maybe take, like, a little bit of in the beginning. But I would recommend just, you know, regenerating some of these. So I'm just going to give it a couple more attempts here. So I'm successful with this one. We'll give it another round. And here, we'll just not enter anything. Sometimes with Dream Machine, when you don't enter anything, you get the best results. But it all depends on what you want to do. We're going to try this one again, and we're going to say walks gently. Okay. Sometimes using keywords like that won't make the dream machine exaggerate them. Okay, let's try a couple more of these. We're just going to say talks softly. Okay. These keywords gently, softly I found in my experience, have helped a lot. And here, we're just going to say looks ahead. And then finally here, we're going to say smiles and looks ahead. All right, so while those are generating, let's take a look at our new ones. So it starts right here. Okay, so this one is still not good. Let's take a look at this one. Oh, yeah, this one came out really good. So we can definitely use this one right here. Gonna take that one. So as you can see, process of refinement as usual with AI. That's pretty typical. Let's see this one. Um, I think the beginning was okay, but then I don't like how, you know, his hands start look they start looking disproportional. So I don't want that one. How about this one? No, it's not even really clear and this one. Yeah, this one is good. He's really happy here. Excellent. Alright, so I'll download this one as well. So we're looking good. I mean, in just two runs, I already have half of the scenes that I need. So really, it's just a matter of trying it a couple of times, refining, and making it all work for you. So I'm going to go ahead and finish the rest of them. And in the next video lesson, I'm going to show you how to take those clips that we've just generated here in dream labs and lip sync them using Runway ML. Now, you can do this in King AI as well. You can do this in a couple of other tools that are out there. But for the purposes of this course, I'm just going to use Runway ML and essentially link them with these videos. So let's look at that in the next video lesson. 26. Lip Sync Animations of Human Characters with Runway ML: Video lesson as we're progressively enhancing our final video production. I want to show you the next step, which is basically to take those video clips that we've generated using Dream Machine, animating Ali, the main character, and basically lip syncing his voiceovers to his lip movements. Here's what I've done. I have a folder, Ali in the laughing dinosaur, as I've shown before. I have a subfolder just called the Ali here. I've generated new audio clips using 11 labs, the same program that I've introduced. The reason why I did this is because it's modifying his voice so that it's not robotic anymore. And it's a lot clearer and a lot more realistic for a children's video story. Here I can just have them all as one audio clip. So each line in the script in the story script, I can basically have under one audio clip, right? So here, for instance, the first audio clip is, What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. I'll play it real quick. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Okay, so I just basically have the audio as one file. It makes it a lot easier when we're doing the lip syncing in the next AI tool that I'm going to present to you. Speaking of, let's move on. So what we want to do here is essentially use Runway ML. Runway ML is a great program. It's up and coming, and it's working great for generative AI. Works great with video stories. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to log in. I already have an account. If you don't, make sure you create one. You do get a good number of free credits to begin with, and then after that, you need to subscribe. The purpose of creating your first video story, it should suffice. You should be able to do that for free. So let's go ahead and log in. All right. Once I'm fully logged in, happens in a quick second. I'm going to go to the search box here and I'm going to search for a specific tool. In my case, I'm looking for the Lip sync tool. So as I mentioned, this tool is great. It's basically a lip sync tool, so you're just going to go here and type in lip sync and it comes right up. Lipsync video, click on it. The cool thing is, this works good with human characters. So I just click here on the box here. Then I want to go to my designated folder. Once I'm at the folder that has all the clips, I'm just going to click on the very first one here and allow that to upload. Takes a quick second here. All right, so there we go. As you can see, the face was detected with no problems. So this is awesome. Now, as I mentioned, with animal characters, it's a little problematic. It doesn't detect it as good. In any case, we're fine here, so we're going to click on Upload Audio now. This is the audio that we're going to use to lip sync. So we click on Upload Audio, then click here. And we're going to go to our new audio clips, and I'm going to select the very first one where he says, What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Just to make sure it's the right one, I'll play it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. And then I just hit Generate. And then allow that to render. It's in the queue now. It'll take about a minute or two. It depends on how long your video is. So let's allow that to complete. Alright, and here we are. Let's run it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Look how amazing that looks. I mean, it's so lip sync. This is great. So I'm gonna download that for sure. And then we basically just move on to the very next one. So what I do is I hit Reset tool. Click here. Go to my next clip. This is the second one right here. Allow that to upload real quick. You can't click on Upload Audio, by the way, while this is uploading the photo. I found issues doing that, so just allow it to do one by one. It happens pretty quickly. There you go. Face is detected. Upload the audio. Click on there. You can drag and drop it as well. We're going to click on Audio Files. I'll click on the second one. Whoa, a dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? We verify that's the correct audio. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? As you can see, I have a couple of pauses there. What I did in 11 Labs is I just put more dots. So I'd basically enter line, a couple of dots, enter line, a couple of dots. I found that to be helpful. It basically provided a time delay, and it helped put it together in one clip, which helps a lot. All right, here we go. So let's hit generate. And while that's generating, I can actually just move on to the next one. I'm going to click on Reset tool, and while that's processing, let's move on to the next one. We'll do these real quick. So here's the third one. Remember, don't click Upload Audio until that one is done. All right, face detected, upload audio. And new audio clips, grab that third one. Why are you laughing so loudly? Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? And let's generate that as well. So you can generate more than one in RunwayL. As you can see, I have 960 credits, but that's because I use this app quite often. In your case, you can certainly go with the free trial, and then if you want to purchase more credits, you can. Here's our second one. It's ready. Let's look at it. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? That's not bad. We'll take it. Okay, this one is ready. Let's look at. Why are you laughing so loudly? What funny? They came out so good. Okay, so now we move on to the next clip. This is the fourth scene. And let's get a face detected there. Then we upload the audio. Okay, so kind of strange, but on this clip, the face isn't detected. So we're going to skip this one for now. I'll address it later. Let's move on to the next one. So we go to the fifth one. Okay, so for this one, the face is detected just fine. Let's upload the appropriate audio. So this is the fifth one right here. Make sure it plays well. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. And generate it. Okay, I'm gonna reset the tool and move on to the very last one. So for the very last clip, it's this one right here. Okay, it's been detected, so upload the audio. And we grab that very last one here. And let's play it. Come on, Trixie. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Okay, and generate that one, as well. Okay, great. So those are all the clips, except for that fourth one. I'm going to address it. But let's see how these two came out before we move forward. Alright, so let's look at this one. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. Let me play it again. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. I think it's fine. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. Looks good. Then we're just waiting on this last one here. All right, and this one is done as well, so let's take a quick look. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Very good. Download that. And we're good to go on those. So now let's go ahead and address that fourth clip. 27. Improvising Lip Sync Nuances with Sync Labs: So to address the lip syncing issue with that fourth clip, I'm going to try another tool called sync dot so. And basically, once you're logged in, you click on Launch Playground, you log in, create an account. And it's fairly straightforward to you, so I'm going to just drag and drop and upload the video that we have generated already. So I'll click on Oli. I'll click on that fourth one there, and it'll load it fairly quickly. Okay? And I'm going to click on the audio clip. I go to new audio clips. The fourth one is right here. It's pretty simple. It's short. He just says, really let me try. So let's play it. Really? Let me try. Do like that little chuckle that's in there. Really. Let me try. Then we just hit Generate. So you can keep all of these the same for now, and let's just generate it. Just take a quick minute, but the result is great. All there we have it, so it's been generated. Let's take a look at it. Really? Let me try. Hey, it's lip sync. It looks pretty good. So let's download it and let's make use of it. Okay. Awesome. So those are all our audio clips for Ali. We're not going to take all those video clips and merge them, replace them with the existing files, the existing video clips in Canva, and make a whole final video that includes all the characters animated and lip sync. I'm really excited to see the final look on this one. So let's do that in the very next lesson. 28. Final Touches Adding Animations of Human Characters in Canva: Okay, so we're at the point in time where we have all of the lip sync videos for Oli, and we're simply just going to take them and drop them in Canva. These are the six lip sync videos. So let's go ahead and put this on the other screen. Just go to take these and drop them in here and allow that to upload. Give it a quick minute. While that's happening, I'm going to go in and delete these because I no longer need them. So that needs to be removed. This one. Likewise, this one, that one right there. Now we have this one here. And this one, and I think we got one more. This one right here. Okay, so these are the ones that need to be filled in with the new stuff. So let's start with the very first one. So we click on this one right here. This is the first one that needs to be worked on. And the very first clip is this one right here. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Take this. Have that fit perfectly. Have that flush perfectly there. Now, we do have audios here, as you recall, from the previous. We don't need that because, I mean, now if you play it's gonna overlap. It's gonna double. What's that sound? What's that sound loud? As you can see, so we do need to remove those. I'm gonna delete this and delete that. As a matter of fact, while I'm at it, I should probably just remove all the other ones here so I can delete, delete, delete, delete. Just make sure you're deleting the right ones so you can kind of hover over it and see what it is. Okay, so once you've deleted all the audios, the duplicate audios, that is for Ollie, we just move on. So here we already put the first one down. This is the second one right here. So let's go to Upload. And we're gonna grab the second clip, which would be this one right here. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Okay, put that down here, make sure it flushes well. Move on to the next one. So, this would be the third one, which essentially is this one right here. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? Yeah, we don't have the background music playing at the moment because we're only playing the one clip. Okay, great. Please. And then we are going to move on to the next one. This is the fourth one right here. That's this one right here. Let me try. All these came out great. They look so good. Okay, so now we move on to the fifth and the sixth one. So here the fifth one lives right here. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. And finally, the sixth one, which is the song right here. Tricky. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. And just make sure that fits the whole page. Great. Okay, so now we're gonna do a little bit more editing, but this is most of it. There may be some audios that are overlapping, so we need to make sure what's going on here. He heard a loud, happy laugh. Flag. What's that sound? Okay, so let's see. Happy laugh. Followed it. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. So, the audio for Trixi got shifted, so we will need to adjust those. I'm not too worried about that, though. So it's just fun. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Alright, we'll play this back here somewhere around here. And let's click and play this one right here. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? Then let's look at the next one. We're gonna move this. This is tricky. We're gonna move that here. And we move on to the next one right here. Thank, really. Let me try. Really. Okay, so you will probably need to adjust these as well as you can see, this is going kind of over. Real. You only want us to play once, right? So do make sure that you, you know, include the right amount of time there. So maybe 2.2 seconds. Let's see how that looks. Really? Let me try. R. You might want to reduce it down even a little bit more or add more transition to it. It all depends on how you want to do it. But I'll probably just reduce this down to, like, 2 seconds right there. And that'll do it. This should do it. Leally Let me try. Okay. And then this needs to go here. Uh, let's take a look at what we got right here, plate. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. Okay, so this has been shifted. We're gonna move that here. Some around here. And continue to play that. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. And we go here. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jungle laugh. Okay, awesome. Alright, and there you have it. So now we've added all the new clips. We just have to adjust a little bit of the audio clips to align better for Trixi again. But that shouldn't be an issue. Other than that, this essentially would be our final look. It's definitely it's gone a long way. And kind of exciting to see where we started and where we are now. We fixed a lot of the AI nuances. It looks so much better, so much more professional, a lot more realistic. So we're going to go ahead and work with this. Now, I do also need to add subtitles here, which should be very straightforward. All I need to do in order to do that, which I've shown how to do already is just, for instance, I can copy this one since I already have something going for me there. I'll paste it. I'll open up my chat TPT script and grab that first one here. And basically just do this across the board for all of them, okay? So, as you can see, it's really just as simple as that. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Okay, so I'm just going to do that all across the other ones I've already demonstrated how to do that. I went through it in previous video lessons, so I'm not going to do it again right now, but I'm just going to go ahead and clean this all up. At this point, you have all the tools and experiences that you need to do to polish this and make your final edits. I've shown you all the tools. I've shown you all the techniques and the tips that I've provided should be really effective to produce a high quality children's video story as we have here. So this is really wrapping up the course, and, you know, we've gone a long way. We started with a very simple topic. We looked at several approaches for several different ways to generate children's stories, children's video stories that is. And now we're at a point where we have a final professional look for our video story. So that's pretty much nearing the end of the course, and I hope you enjoyed it. In the next video lesson, we'll kind of just recap and summarize all that we've done and do take all of the techniques that were learned to explore more, learn more. It's only the beginning. You need to look at it that way. And if you've used this stuff before, just continue to escalate. You know, you can kind of just take what you've learned and enhance and increase in your creative journey. 29. Final AI Animated Children's Video Story!: Ollie loved exploring the jungle near his home. One day, he heard a loud, happy laugh and followed. What's that sound? It's so loud and funny. Oh, I can't stop laughing. Whoa. A dinosaur. Aren't you supposed to be extinct? Extinct? Not me. I've been here all along, just hiding and laughing. Why are you laughing so loudly? What's so funny? It's my belly. It's so ticklish that even the slightest touch makes me laugh uncontrollably. Really? Let me try. Uh huh. Stop. I can't take it. Ha ha ha. You're the funniest dinosaur I've ever met. I'm the only dinosaur you've ever met. Come on, Trixie. Let's make the whole jungle laugh.