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This video is an in-depth tutorial where I take you through all the steps to turn a 2D AI image into an animated scene with a 3D environment and animated character.

With a broad mix of AI tools and some more traditional/digital composition/motion graphic techniques to tie it all together.

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Times
0:00 - Awesome-ness
1:06 - Image Gen (Free)
3:39 - Image Gen (Paid)
7:34 - 3D Mesh Gen (Free)
9:03 - Open Mesh in Blender (Free)
12:30 - Open Mesh in After Effects (Paid)
15:07 - Character Animation Overview
16:21 - Sad Talker (Hugging Face) Free/Paid
20:00 - Sad Talker (Discord) Free
22:27 - Lalamu Studio (Free *Demo)
24:54 - Hey Gen (Paid)
26:14 - D-id (Paid)
27:05 - Hey Gen, D-id Comparison
27:41 - Composite, After Effects (Paid)
30:02 - Wrap it up
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Tools Used in this Tutorial:

2D Image Generation:

Bing Image Creator (Dall-E 3)
https://www.bing.com/create

- MidJourney (You could also use Leonardo.ai or Stable Diffusion)
https://www.midjourney.com/

Adobe Photoshop:
https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativeclou...

ClipDrop
https://clipdrop.co/

Adobe Firefly:
https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generati...

Adobe Express:
https://www.adobe.com/express/

Zoe Depth:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/shariqf...

Mesh Magic AI:
Coming soon

- Blender
https://www.blender.org/

- Adobe After Effects:
https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativeclou...

- Topaz Labs Video AI: (affiliate link) (for upscaling footage)
https://topazlabs.com/ref/2271/

- Pika Labs:
https://www.pika.art/

- Sad Talker (on Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/spaces/vinthon...

- Sad Talker (On Github)
https://github.com/OpenTalker/SadTalker

- Sad Talker on Discord (Floor33)
  / discord  

- Lalamu Studio (demo)
https://lalamu.studio/

- Hey Gen
https://app.heygen.com/

- D-id
https://www.d-id.com/

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After Effects Plugins:
None.
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