Animation Tutorials

The Wheels on The Bus - song animation, puppets. 100 million

Bulk Create in Canva

Canva, Capcut - simple ship animation with city background

CapCut - rainforest blue avatar educating

Educational For Kids - Canva

Canva animation

Adobe After Effects - animation

The Zinnny Studio - digital products, animation, kids Books

AI Advances

Atomic Gains

AI Animation

*** Project Muse

Cloud AI

ai samson

MDMZ - animation

https://www.youtube.com/@AIBunnyOfficial/videos

Advanced Animation

Adobe Animate

character swap - Unreal Engine

Blender, Maya

Being Animator - Blender, ChatGPT

Consistent Characters

Text to Voice

Animating Backgrounds

Audio Tracks

Face Swap

Background Swap

Character Swap

Camera Motion

Image to Animation

Video to Animation

Blender: A free and open-source 3D animation software with a comprehensive set of modeling tools.

Maya: A professional-grade 3D animation software.

3ds Max: 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, catering to various industries including gaming and architecture.

Houdini: 3D animation software known for its use in major animation productions like "Zootopia," "Frozen," and "Rio."

Animation Tools

LivePortrait, alternative to Hedra

https://huggingface.co/spaces/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

Hedra - facial animation, lip synching

Video to Animation - expensive as yet.

https://domoai.app/ - Video to Animation

Blender

Adobe Creative Suite

https://civitai.com/models/118086/3d-animation-diffusion

Runway ML

Adobe Character Animator

https://app.animaker.com/editproject/xVgFZVRPKu2H8YSz

https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search?k=cartoon%20background
Animated Overlays
video on a animated background that loops
Copyright-free stock footage or animation
Free Animated, Magical Effects
Free Animated Backgrounds
Can create animation on backgrounds
Education - Learn Engineering Animations, medical animations
animated greeting cards
vector-based image morphing used in animation

Examples

50 most-viewed independent animated shorts, YouTube

Dog-training School - 500 Million views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y - guacamole, dice animation - 450 milion views

Rainforest Educational Documentary

Rainforest Animation

1. ChatGPT, https://claude.ai/, script prompt: Please write me a monologue for a cartoon character that is exploring the rainforest. Make it educational and include a part about a waterfall and a stream.

2. ClipChamp - Google login, generate text to voice

Create a new video
Record and Create
Text to Speech, 10 mins max, can use in pieces
Other languages, see if has API, or automate can bdo in bulk, with same animation.
download as mp4, lowest setting

3. Adobe Character Animator - Adobe Express, Google login

character tab at right, choose one
background tab, Choose Green Background
browse, under character main display
choose mp4 audio file we made in ClipChamp
record
download

4. Vecteezy - animated backgrounds, stock footage, images, login with Google

main search, drop down to 'videos'
search for 'rainforest animated'
license type on left menu - choose free license

Pre-recorded animation snippets or backgrounds

Use animation snippets within larger animation - Avatars move and express emotions via pre-recorded animations, or routines that can be multi-purposed. for example, a crying girl, a walking dog, a girl turning around, reaching her arms up, pointing, kicking.

Moving backgrounds, where appropriate, add to the animation. Use care not to overwhelm the main actor. Can animate static backgrounds for more control.

Turn Videos into animation

source TikTok viral videos from China, and repurpose them as animations, with different backgrounds, different audio.

Changing videos into animations by overlays, face swaps.

extract subjects from a video

--> turn animations into new animation using style guides

AI-assisted Animation

Cascadeur is a standalone 3D animation software that combines traditional keyframe animation with advanced physics and AI assistance, enabling animators to create realistic and expressive character movements efficiently.

Keyframes are critical points in the movement, such as the beginning, peak, or end of a particular action (e.g., the extreme points of a jump, like takeoff, midair, and landing). Tweening interpolates the motion between Key Poses

AI Automated Rigging, create a bone structure, identify key joints and assign weights to the bones for more natural movement.
AI-based smoothing for realistic movements
Real-time animation
Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman
Tools like Alter for facial animation

Python snippets by ChatGPT to integrate into Blender

Physics-based animation uses real-world physical rules (e.g., gravity, friction, collision detection) to simulate natural movement. Examples include cloth simulation, ragdoll physics, or hair and fur animation. Modern Use: Common in video games, movie VFX, and simulations using engines like Havok or PhysX.

Motion Capture

3d capture for game environments - Volumetric video captures real-world 3D spaces or subjects and allows for interactive playback in 3D environments. It’s often used in VR but is increasingly being applied to films and interactive media.

Motion Capture with AI Integration. Beyond traditional motion capture, AI-assisted motion capture can now enhance and predict movements, interpolate between captured frames, and even generate new animations based on existing data.

Companies like 8i
Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios
RADiCAL

1. Unreal Engine with Live Link - Unreal Engine provides real-time motion capture and control for 3D avatars via Live Link, supporting iPhone face tracking and mocap systems like OptiTrack and Xsens.

2. Unity supports real-time avatar mapping via ARKit, ARCore, and motion capture systems like OptiTrack and Xsens, perfect for VR/AR and gaming environments.

3. Vicon Shogun offers high-end real-time motion capture, widely used in film and virtual events. It provides precise body and facial motion tracking.

4. Xsens MVN Animate is an industry-leading full-body motion capture system that integrates with Unity, Unreal Engine, and other platforms for real-time avatar control.

5. DeepMotion - https://www.deepmotion.com/companion-tools/ready-player-me offers AI-powered body tracking using video footage for simple avatar control without mocap suits. Ideal for basic virtual avatars and content creation.

6. VRChat allows real-time control of avatars in social VR environments using full-body tracking with Vive, Oculus, and additional trackers for hands, feet, and hips.