By far, you must have read lots of tutorials about After Effects, Blender, Illustrator, etc. However, animating your drawings with those software is exclusive to professionals. They all have a steep learning curve.
Don’t be frustrated. Beginners like us can turn a painting into an animation, with the power of AI. In this post, we will dive into FlexClip’s AI Video Generator tool, and animate your drawings with simple prompts.
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The Tool We Need to Animate Drawings
FlexClip is your substitute for professional animation tools, reducing the effort required for manual operation. Utilizing the advanced algorithms, it brings your painting to life with smooth and realistic movements. Oil painting, sketch, watercolor, no matter what you have drawn, you can always achieve the best results.
FlexClip AI Image to Video Generator
Besides simply animating your drawings, FlexClip offers tons of options to level up the animation. Here are more details.
Colorize your sketch, black-and-white drawings without messing up the details, so that you can start with a colorful photo.
Apply 3D styles to touch up with your drawing. Doing so will certainly add professionalism to the final animation.
Customize the final animation videos with basic editing tools like trimming, adjusting video speed, applying filters, making color corrections, etc.
How to Animate Your Drawings
You don’t need any particular animating skills. Click on the Animate Drawings button below, upload your painting to FlexClip, and wait for the magical moment.
Step 1
When you access FlexClip’s AI Video Generator tool, you are at the Text to Video option by default. Switch to the Image to Video tool.
Switch to Text to Video Tool
Step 2
Take a picture of your drawing and then upload it to FlexClip. Here we will be using the following drawing as an example.
Drawing Example
Step 3
Enter prompts like make the figure in the photo run back and forth. Choose the Standard or Professional mode and set up the video duration. Hit Generate. The whole generation takes only several minutes.
FlexClip Converting Drawing to Animation
The following video generated from the example drawing and prompt: the girl runs forward, her arms flailing wildly. Professional Mode, 5s video duration.
FlexClip Generated Animation
Step 4
(Optional) Level up your animation video by heading to FlexClip's editing panel. Make basic edits like trimming, adjusting video speed, making color corrections, or swap in a new background.
Polish Your Animation
What We Shouldn’t Except from AI Drawing Animator
Complex Character Movements
AI doesn’t understand physics and the real world. Even though it is well developed, not each generation is perfect, especially when the prompt involves complex movements, or subtle facial expressions.
AI video generator like FlexClip offers basic editing tools like trimming, splitting, adjusting video speed. However, you can’t control every animation detail, such as specific gestures, expressions, or timing nuances.
AI often produces errors, such as distorted anatomy, unnatural poses, or glitches in the animation process. Re-generation is usually needed to achieve professional results.
FAQs About Animating Your Drawings
1. What are some other professional tools for animating drawings?
Besides After Effects and Blender, the following 3 animating tools are popular among professionals.
Adobe Animate: Create animations frame-by-frame.
Procreate: Animation tools for iPad.
Ebsynth: AI-based motion for artistic styles.
2. What if I only have some hand-drawn sketches?
You can animate hand-drawn sketches with FlexClip. Scan or photograph your sketches, and import to FlexClip, then start animating.
3. Do I have to pay for animating my drawings?
Yes, animating drawings takes lots of computing, so payment is necessary for all AI video generators. Take FlexClip as an example, if you go to the professional mode, one-second video generation takes 7 credits, and 300 credits cost $9.99.
Elena
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Member of PearlMountain Limited. Has a mania for video editing. Love to share photo/video shooting tips and ideas.