3 Minutes to Make Animated Videos with AI & ChatGPT

Among all video types, animated video is the hardest to create. You need to not only draw cartoon characters, but also animate those characters with professional tools. The whole process takes months and a large sum of money.

AI changes the way we create animated videos. The latest AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can craft excellent stories, and AI tools like FlexClip, can help you go from character creation to animation.

None of us can afford to fall behind others. So, without further ado, let’s start learning how to use AI and ChatGPT to make an animated video.

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How to Create An Animated Video

As mentioned above, to create an animated video with AI and ChatGPT, you should first ask ChatGPT to generate a story, and then ask an AI tool like FlexClip to make a cartoon video. You don’t even need any editing skills.

Step 1. Ask ChatGPT to generate a script

ChatGPT will generate all sorts of stories and scripts for you, as long as you know how to write good prompts.

A good story can’t go without a theme. If you have no idea what story your video is going to tell, first, you should ask ChatGPT for some suggestions. You can input a query like what are the 10 stories children/teenagers/YouTubers love. Pick a story theme that interests you most.

Have a theme in your mind? Ask ChatGPT to generate a story directly. Instead of entering queries like generating a story about [story name], try entering queries like generating a story about [story name] in a kid’s tone, or generating a story about [story name] in 200 words. Adding some requirements to your query will always increase the chance that you may love the story generated by ChatGPT.

Generate a Story with ChatGPT

To make the entire process more smooth, you can even ask ChatGPT to break the story into several video scenes, including all key information like scenes, characters, lines, etc.

Step 2. Generate AI Animated Photos

Traditionally, creating a cartoon character requires advanced 3D skills. Yet, today is all about AI. Let's turn to the shortcut - FlexClip's AI image generation tool.

Generate Animated Characters

Whenever you hit the AI Text to Image page, enter a prompt describing the animated character or scene you need. Choose a generation model and anime style and then hit Generate. You will soon get up to 4 animated pictures created based on the prompt. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can always hit regenerate. Save the results to your computer.

Generate AI Animated Characters

We entered the prompt: a lovely girl with curly hair, dark blue eyes in pure white background. These are some of the animated characters we got.

AI Animated Characters from FlexClip

Step 3. Create AI Animated Photos for Each Scene

Character photos alone don't tell a comprehensive story. Sometimes we need to incorporate characters in a different scene, or add multiple characters in one scene. This is where FlexClip's AI Photo Editor kicks in.

Edit Animated Photos

Upload multiple character images, enter a prompt telling FlexClip how you want to merge these reference images, hit Generate.

Create AI Animated Photos for Each Scene

We uploaded the following two image, and entered the prompt: the two children walk in a country road, flowers are blooming outside of the road.

This is the animated photo edits you get from FlexClip. Thanks to the advanced AI photo editing models like Google Nano Banana, OpenAI, Seedream and Flux, all character facial details will remain unchanged.

AI Animated Photo Editing Example

Step 4. Animate your Picture

In this step, we will need FlexClip's Image to Video generator. It doesn't only animates a photo, but add natural voiceover and and perform automatic lip-syncing based on the prompt you provided.

Animated Photos to Video

Upload character images to the upload section, describe how you want every element moves. Select one of the generation model and hit Generate. If you feel like generating a video with narrations, stick to Veo 3 or Sora 2.

Turn Animated Image to Animation Clip

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

Animated Video Clip Output from FlexClip

Step 5. Combine All Animation Clips to FlexClip

Now you have already had some animated video clips. Head over FlexClip's editing panel, drag and drop them all to FlexClip's timeline and adjust their order.

After importing all clips, you can make basic edits such as adding transitions, cropping, masking, adding text, etc. Hover your mouse over the video, all editing tools will pop up above the preview window.

Combine All Animation Clips Using FlexClip Editor

Instead, move to the Tools kit where you can add auto caption to your video, regenerate consistent voiceover, translate videos, compose background music, etc. Embrace the power of AI editing.

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Step 6. Download & Share

Export your AI video to your computer desktop, share your video to social media, or share via a short link so that it is easier for others to browse the animated video you generated with AI.

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Elena /

Member of PearlMountain Limited. Has a mania for video editing. Love to share photo/video shooting tips and ideas.