How to Create Animated Faceless Videos for Your Educational Channel
Are you looking to create animated faceless videos for your educational channel? Look no further! In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily and for free create animated faceless videos using our best method yet. This method can be applied to any single niche, so let's get started!
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Getting Video Ideas
3. Writing Video Scripts
4. Creating Characters for Your Animation
5. Animating Your Characters
6. Adding Voiceovers to Your Animation
7. Putting Everything Together
8. Adding Background Music
9. Conclusion
1. Introduction
In the past 30 days, an educational kids channel made anywhere from $1 to $188,000 by posting faceless animated videos about various topics. For example, the video about naming fruits has over 43 million views. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create your own animated faceless videos for your educational channel.
2. Getting Video Ideas
The first thing you need to do is get video ideas. You can go about doing this in two different ways. The first way would be simply coming up with the ideas yourself if you have that creative mind and you could think of stuff. Great job, do that! If not, don't worry because the second way you can go about getting video ideas is by coming on over to ChatGPT. Once on ChatGPT, you're going to ask it for this prompt: "Give me 20 simple video ideas for a niche educational faceless channel." Over here, all you want to do is insert your niche, so we would simply replace this with "kids" and hit enter. As you can see, it has gone ahead and given us 20 wonderful ideas.
3. Writing Video Scripts
Once you have your video ideas, the second thing you need to do is come up with the video scripts. You can go about doing this in two different ways. The first way would be coming on over to a Google doc and writing a script yourself. If you can do that, go ahead and do that now. If you can't come up with your own scripts, the second way you can go about getting your script is by using, once again, ChatGPT. Once on ChatGPT, you want to ask it for this prompt: "Write me a short script for an educational YouTube video titled [insert title of your video]." Then it says the video should [insert what your video would be about, what you wanted to include, the flow of your video, and then the target audience is]. In my case, this is how I would fill this out: "Write me a short script for an educational YouTube video titled 'Name the Fruits.' The video should include basic fruits, naming them, and how to spell them. The target audience is kids." That's how simple it is to use this prompt. Then hit enter, and now as you can see, ChatGPT has gone ahead and given me a great script that I could use for my video. Whether you decide to use the ChatGPT script, create your own script, or edit this script to fit your needs better, once you have your script, it's time to move on to the next step.
4. Creating Characters for Your Animation
Now for the fun part! It's time to create the characters for your animation. In order to do this, we're going to be using Canva. Find the link for Canva in the description below. Once on Canva, what you want to do is come on over to this section and then simply do a search for "YouTube video." Then hit enter, and then once you've done that, you're going to click this one which says "Create a blank YouTube video." Now it's going to take you to this scene where we can begin creating the characters.
Now, our video is about fruits. I have three fruits: a pear, an apple, and an orange. So the first thing I would need to do is get these elements. In order to do this, I would come over to this section where it says "Elements." Once on elements, I can go ahead and search for the fruits I want. So the first one is a pear, so I do a search for "pear" and then click onto where it says "graphics." Then you could scroll through all these options and choose whichever pear that you prefer. So I'm going to go ahead and just choose the first one that I see. My other elements were the apple and orange, so I'll do the same exact process to get all my characters.
Now, as you can see, I have all three of my characters. Great job! But this isn't really giving anything special. It just looks like three fruits. Instead, we need to actually try to bring them alive a little, make them look like actual characters. So in order to do this, we need to give them some body parts. Ensuring that you are in the elements once again, you're going to go ahead and do a search for "cartoon feet" and then hit enter. Once you've done that, click over where it says "graphics," and now as you can see, there are many different feet that we could choose from. So the one I recommend you use is this one. And once you've clicked onto it, you can now position it and adjust it onto your fruit character. And now, as you can see, it's in front of the pear. We don't want that. So in order to put it behind the pear, you want to right-click onto it, click "layer," and then just simply click "send backward."
Now we need to give it some arms. So in the search box, we're just going to search the same thing but "arms." So "cartoon arms," hit enter. As you can see, there are many arms to choose from, so scroll through this and choose the one that you would like. And then once you have it in, you simply need to adjust it onto your character. And once again, it's at the front. We don't want that. So we're going to right-click, layer, send backward. It's coming together great! So we need to give him another arm. In order to do this, you click onto this one, right-click, duplicate. Now we have two arms, but it's a little bit sideways. Don't worry, that's an easy fix. Simply click "flip horizontal," and then there you go. We can now adjust it and then send it behind. And look at this, the pear is already looking way better!
And now the last thing we need to do is give him a face. In order to do this, we're going to come to elements and then do a search for "cotton face." Click graphics, and then as you can see, there's lots of different faces to choose from. So you just scroll through this and then choose the one you like. And once you find the one you like, you simply click onto it, and then you just adjust it to fit onto your character. And there we have it, guys! Doesn't he look so cute? I think he looks adorable. And that's how easy it is to create your character.
5. Animating Your Characters
Now that you have your characters done, it's time to animate them. You're going to bring these characters to life, and before you say, "Oh, never mind, this is where I click off," don't you dare! Because the method I'm going to show you requires no skills whatsoever, and it's literally done by a few clicks of a button. In order to bring them to life, we're going to be using this tool called Animated Drawings. I'm going to leave a link for it in the description. Now, once Animated Drawings, it's going to take you to this page. And on this page over here where it says "Upload photo," you want to upload the photo of the characters that we just downloaded from Canva.
From here, you want to click "next," and then it's going to take you to this page where you now need to select one character. So we're going to just adjust these lines and select our pear, and then hit "next." And then once you've done this, as you can see, it's going to take you to this page where it's now outlined our pear. Now you need to make sure that your entire character is actually outlined like this. If there's a piece of the background in you, you can click the erase button, and then you can erase it. Now we don't want to erase this, so let's undo. Or if there's a piece of it that's not in the lines, you can click on the draw button, and then you can simply add it in by coloring like this. And then once that part is done, you need to click "next." And then from here, you need to adjust the main points on your character. It mostly gets this well, but if it's a little bit off, then you simply put your mouse on the circle. And as you can see here where it says "right eye," you put it on the right eye. So you just adjust it properly according to what it's supposed to be. Now once you've done that, it's time for the magic. All you need to do is click "next." Voila! Look at this, our animation is done! Look at him just running across the screen!
And now here's a great thing about this tool. We only had to do this once to generate him once. And then on this side under here where it says "add animation," there's around 30 different animations you can let him do, which would be more than enough for you to create an entire animation with practically any movement you could think of. And in order to change the animation, it's as simple as just clicking on the one that you want. And now, as you can see, here he goes. And look at his legs. This is the reason why I said you wanted his legs to be facing the same direction because if it wasn't, if his legs were facing the opposite way, he would be walking with his legs open. So that's why I told you guys to do that step earlier. See, I always have you guys covered.
And from here, you would go back to your script and then figure out the different movements that you need your character to do, find it, and then download it. In order to download it, it's very simple. All you need to do is click where it says "share" and then click "download." So go back and forth from your scripts and Animated Drawings and just gather up all the different movements that you think you would need for your video. And then once you have downloaded all the moves for your first character, you need to go ahead to do this process for all of your characters. It's very simple to do. It doesn't take you long, and it's completely free.
6. Adding Voiceovers to Your Animation
Now once you have all your characters and their movements downloaded, it's time to move on to the next step. The next step would be getting the voice for your video. In order to generate the voices, we're going to be using 11 Labs. You can find the link for 11 Labs in the description of this video. But once on 11 Labs, you want to ensure that you
