Bring your AI images to life with 2D animations powered by generative fill

I'll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop's new Generative Fill tool to create beautiful animations in After Effects.
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My goal was to create a beautiful animated fairy tale. The script was written by ChatGPT, the images were generated using Midjourney, and the animation was created using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Generating a fairy tale
01:57 Preparing the images in PS
07:57 Animation in After Effects
11:26 Additional Effects
17:30 Final Short Film
19:35 Outro
Tools used in this video:
Adobe Generative Fill: www.adobe.com/products/photos...
ChatGPT: chat.openai.com/
midjourney: www.midjourney.com/
elevenlabs: beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-syn...

[@jawbee7]

Finally something practical for animation

[@RenetteDescartess69]

well, the animation was made by hand with after effect.

[@yogeswarans.p.muniandi]

I agreed ❤

[@RayfieldA]

I am a traditional storyboard artist. There is much debate on Linkedin with pushback regarding A.I. art. I understand that it mostly comes from fear of jobs being lost to A.I. as well as people's work being used without permission. Just like when Digital art was first introduced, artists felt threatened. myself included. Until I started learning how to do it. I realize A.I. art isn't going away. So I must learn how to do this too. This is art and animation evolution. 👍🏾

[@cristinawilligs]

if you are a talented and creative, you have nothing to fear, the AI is a tool, that will end piling up the job for the talented ones

[@gutiepiettv2432]

Your job may not get taken solely because an ai is too random to make a proper storyboard in my opinion. This guy has A LOT of skill.

[@elujinpk]

Lol. There's no fear of the tech. The tech is garbage. Built off others work. It's the people who use the mass thieving machine and pretending they did anything....Riding the backs of creatives while pretending to be creative. The fact people will openly use these mass AI spybots is insane. The fact that people pretend they did the work or have the skill...it's just fake...which seems to be what everyone is loving. Not many real people anymore. Just clout chasers and untalented AI suck off idiots. Copy paste, copy paste, generate, auto fill, blah blah. It's boring, untalented and uncreative. Everyone has happily put the power into corporate and studio hands and screwed the artist, so they can feel good...dopamine hit after dopamine hit. Even the drug is fake.

[@RemedieX]

Ai is just another tool. Take advantage of it!

[@Redballoon99]

AI IS NOT ART

[@semihaltay1753]

Your content has been incredibly influential in my life. Thanks to you, I've delved into the world of AI film making. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration!

[@omenkafavour7043]

Can you share your handle we can learn together

[@jaytamati4120]

It's been a while but it's always worth the wait.

[@cardboardnaut]

Big applause here. Normal AI tutorials go very surface level. They just kind of stop at the AI programs and never talk about how AI excels between the marriage of manual work and AI work. Your end result is one of the few things where I wouldn't think an AI made this. Great job.

[@lonelyduck6407]

please please please keep teaching us how to do this - you have helped us figure it out so well - THANK YOU SO MUCH KEEP THEM COMING

[@jsta1024]

Dude, amazing work ! Just watched the whole video my eyes glued to the screen. Keep up the great work, you gonna make it big !!! Love how you explain everything. You just sparked a desire into me that I kinda can't resist now 😅, once again great stuff.

[@DARKHUDS]

The best use of Ai I've seen till this day. Great video and appreciate your hardwork!

[@thegildededge]

Wow this is just wonderful. Love it sooo much! Thank you!!!

[@ajayshya]

Mindblowing!! appreciate your efforts in making this tutorial!

[@yogeswarans.p.muniandi]

Finally i found who is passionate teaching people how they could use AI advantage to make animations. Such a valuable video❤

[@robertomoreno7728]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for this! 🙌🙌

[@alfredmanzano680]

Appreciate you man, amazing tutorial! Especially all the after effects tricks, I havnt seen after effects in years, really came a long way

[@VerdantJedi]

Wow! This has so much potential!

[@femifaronbi3809]

. This is so amazing. Can't wait to learn more. Thanks

[@symbiote]

Thanks for the content. Ai art has been helpful due to the fact that I’m not great at drawing backgrounds. It’s been helping me improve that skill. Appreciate you man!😁

[@lissyyy5500]

Thank you, this is so helpful!

[@pocketsfullofdynamite]

I am more than glad I came across this channel and grateful for the tutorials you make. Very inspiring and I like the simplicity of how After Effects works if you have the technical know how.

[@waleed6683]

I loved this entire tutorial! This is probably one of the best videos I've seen online on the practical application of AI art. I was in a creative slump but this pulled me right out so thanks to you. I'm relatively new to animation and would love to have seen the entire process you did. IIf you are interested I'd be willing to pay for a tutorial based on how you created the short film as its an animation style I think would suit what I have in mind for my future projects. Thanks again for the incredible work!

[@DJ-Illuminate]

Brilliant. I will keep this in mind for future.

[@bolbolzaboon]

Absolutely amazing.

[@tanyasubaBg]

Absolutely amazing

[@user-jq1yo6jt8v]

Amazing! Thanks for the inspiration.

[@exuno1107]

Mick, PROPS! I've seen all of the other Photoshop generative fill videos, and it's the same cookie-cutter concept. This is an awesome tutorial!

[@AIWarper]

This is fantastic. I’d love to see this applied to a more intricate animation though!

[@OurEpicStory]

This Concept is exactly what my channel plans on creating! Please Subscribe because there's a whole series coming Spring 2024! Thanks for your support!

[@Z0RLIG]

The result is hella good! You're such an inspiration.

[@borismerkfeld9717]

really love what you're doing - quality content 🙂

[@Imaginetodreamgames]

This was really good I see that Adobe is the place to be for animation✨

[@pamecv4628]

Tus vídeos son demasiado útiles no sabes cuánto, van acorde a todo lo que quiero hacer, te agradezco infinito todo el conocimiento que compartes, cuando tenga más ingresos regresaré aquí para apoyarte, muchas gracias!!

[@hazambe]

Beautiful video. This is exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you

[@TopicTome]

wow keep it up. Very resourceful

[@kabello7768]

thanks for the tips.. Your video sparked emotions in me!! wonderful

[@Han3D]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your skills!

[@ukmonk]

Great work! Nice video thank you!

[@mohaneedabdo3366]

you are the best i always wait for your videos thank you so much

[@Complecx]

I'm saving this video my jjaw dropped watching you put everything in the different ssections of foreground/background/etc and my god this is a brilliant usse of generative fill and the other AI tools Amazing work!!

[@Complecx]

I hadn't even gotten to the water yet holy shit dude thank you so much

[@santifante]

Love this video!!

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

Thanks for sharing this tut. What you've demonstrated is exactly what I've been looking for. I love the parallax created by the layers in depth, and adding the details like particle emitters for leaves and effects used in water and on the fish really bring the scene to life. I've been fine tuning an art style that I like on MJ, and I have wanted to create an animation with it. I'm going to model, rig, and animate the character, but I've been trying to brainstorm how to use a consistent artstyle that MJ can create for the environment in a way that is better than plastering a flat image on a plane. Great work, and thanks for sharing your techniques 💯

[@MichaelFergusonVideos]

Amazing work!

[@butistrepe]

Amazing! Nice short movie in the end!

[@dasmensch2317]

Looks good, thanks for the tutorial

[@dahvielle15]

Bruh! this is epic !

[@Cineinsaner]

This is just mind blowing video ❤️

[@metropolisarena3038]

Browwwwwwww This is Insane!!!!!!! I really loved this......

[@g-program-it]

nicely done dude, the sound effects really do add to the story

[@GabrielVeda]

That was a lovely story. Thank you.

[@Nepalworktechnical]

Wow , Just Super awaysome !

[@Kenb3d1]

A new Mickmumpitz video! Good times. Have you tried Panohead yet?

[@mickmumpitz]

Haven't had the chance to try it out yet, but it's on my list! Had to take a little AI/KZbin break the last few months unfortunately, but now I'm trying to make videos more regularly again

[@proyectodigital7915]

Beautifulll ....this is great

[@bastianrivero]

Excellent work

[@deutschgeschichten1]

Bro no way you are so creative I love this, good and perfect work ♥️

[@JunieJu]

beautiful!!

[@luceroguillen7189]

I really like this

[@YesimMemisyazici]

I really love your work and how you explain it well :) Congratz!!! and hope to see more videos ASAP :)

[@liverary79]

Amazing

[@KimberlyPinkney]

that was lovely!!!

[@micbab-vg2mu]

Great video - thank you

[@bomar920]

just amazing, you can actually built youtube channel or tiktok channel just based on this story goes on and on

[@daminguez]

Thx man! Nice job! Just keep going! :)

[@courtcrea.]

What a marvelous animation. Simple yet magical! 👏

[@hammerandthewrench7924]

Bot comments everywhere lol

[@rzolution]

This is a great to see. Amazed it only took you 3 days. It got too complex in the After Effects part for me to try it myself, maybe for advanced users. Thanks anyway, loved viewing the process.

[@jessicasmiles00]

That was so beautiful. I want to learn to be able to do that. I will definitely be watching all your videos. I am a fan.😃😁 Thank you!

[@ai.ai.captain]

Kickass 🔥

[@psci-chonaut]

Thanks A Lot Dude

[@successfuelmedia]

Bravo!!!!! 👏👏👏This tutorial was sooooooo good! Thank you. 😃

[@optusharyt4242]

awesome

[@MsMelanie117]

Really cool. 👍.

[@rttp-righttothepoint6656]

this story is better than 90% of hollywood movies. the script is simple and timeless. a perfect childrends like 8yo book. the simple animations were great

[@mufasa2079]

Not only are you a dope soccer player you are an amazing creative, thanks Halaand

[@jameslau5497]

Ai is a tool, creativity is vision

[@jorgenbjorn]

Such a great video! Kudos

[@marvelbutai]

so great

[@geomane]

Cleanest use of AI content i have seen so far .. well done ! ! To really make the world comes to life, you should add sounds for every parts (wind, water, etc ...) impatient to see what comes next :)

[@DevanBrieGreen]

Awesome video! I would like to try it.😊

[@3coisasimportantes550]

amazing

[@houlipaints]

ChatGPT has such a distinct writing voice. “The air crackled with anticipation” is a sentence I’ve seen it produce before. It also tends to write about people standing on a precipice and taking in the beauty of the land.

[@pastoryoda2789]

I don’t use it anymore i like claude better

[@houlipaints]

@@pastoryoda2789 Claude's massive context length makes it amazing at providing edit suggestions for writers. I think it'll definitely make self-publishing much more widespread.

[@SoulTuner]

Hello. Photoshop update made me excited. (I create cartoons using the same pipeline)) Before that, I used the usual fill for the lower layers, which had to be adjusted. Now everything has become easier. By the way, I used automation in Photoshop. You press one button and it fills everything automatically, creates a backup layer and deselects it. Pay attention if you haven't used it. Speeds up the process. And one more moment - very cool work with effects in your video. I like it!

[@niteshpoudel8092]

Can you share more on how you automate the process?

[@TheBlessingReport]

great job

[@SimplyAlteringMaterials]

Amazingly BRILLIANT!!! Great job, I LOVE IT!!!😍👍

[@digital_magic]

Very nice video 🙂

[@MidjourneyMadness-iy3qw]

You crazy man. I see all those layers you had to have made.

[@chillimind8914]

super

[@obergamo]

incrível, sou do Brasil admiro muito seus vídeos, são realmente incríveis! um dia ainda vou criar um canal para fazer vídeos assim! único problema o tempo! vai um bom tempo, porém agora com as IAs talvez podemos ganhar tempo de alguma forma! um grande abraço, incrível

[@cosmosequation6672]

how well does the generative fill to replicate any camoes or remove fabric pattern on camos?

[@me.in.berlin]

Valeu!

[@emersontanakamotion]

very good! I would add a blink in the girl but overall is great!

[@SudarshanAshiya]

nice

[@marcdevinci893]

Wow well done, some really cool techniques thanks for sharing. I wonder if this could be done DaVinci Resolve Fusion

[@aliqureshi0374]

Everything was amazing. VO was the worst but man you are a genius🔥

[@asalpeydaei5854]

Thank you for sharing this. Is it possible to make the character get facial movement? Like blinking?

[@dandanndanny9520]

can you make an in deepth on what to focus on to be able to do this? What in after effect should I be learning in order to do this completely ? thank you !!

[@Spinoza11]

👏👏👏

[@cak6831]

This is really beautiful! Your videos have been so helpful as I’m trying to learn about these tools and plan a project. Is there a way to combine the 3D effect with the depth maps from your previous videos with 2D animations of Midjourney characters in the foreground?

[@mickmumpitz]

Absolutely! You could either animate the characters in After Effects with a static camera and transparent background and then import the sequence as an image plane in Blender. Alternatively, you could first animate your 3D depth map scene in Blender and then export it as a .png sequence. Then you can either export the camera or track the scene using After Effects' internal 3D tracker, which is probably easier. Then you can add and animate all 2D elements on top of that.

[@cak6831]

@@mickmumpitz thank you so much for this detailed reply! I’ve been working on learning about Blender and image planes in the meantime as well as rewatching all your videos. I’m curious, as of today, is there a simple way to add a depth pass (if I’m saying that right) to a simple 2d video in order to make an animated version of the mesh in Blender? I see in your horror film you talked about an issue with flickering if you try to add a depth map to each frame, but these tools seem to be evolving by the day/week so maybe there is an easier way. I suppose the video about adding a normal map to video also works towards those ends but you had to do some deflickering magic there as well. In my mind I’m picturing a static background mesh made from an image and depth map plus a character in the foreground who maybe also has some depth so they look like they’re part of the scene.

[@ApacheGaan508]

How did you get consistent character generation for multiple shots?

[@Lisa-mz3nn]

i have no Generative Fill tool , got newest update and downloadet beta version. need help

[@9anani]

Can you suggest some good image upscalers ? Thanks for the tutorial

[@TopicTome]

is this possible to do with affinity photo and davinci?

[@beatmakerarmetsao]

wow how do you generate expression of the girl in midjourney ?

[@BrianHallmond]

wow