2d Animation Tutorial - Learn how to make 2d animations!

In this introductory section, Joe from Team Animaker welcomes the audience to a tutorial on creating 2D character animations with voiceovers using Animaker. Joe promises a user-friendly guide, starting with signing up at Animaker.com. He gives a brief overview of the application's interface, including the workspace, scenes, timeline, and library. Scenes work like slides in a presentation, combining to form a video, and Animaker provides copyright-free assets such as characters, backgrounds, and music tracks.

This section covers how to add backgrounds and characters to a scene in Animaker. Users can choose from a library of options, customize background settings through the item menu, and edit elements. Joe demonstrates adding a walking kid character, shows how to choose from 500 actions (like walking a dog), and explains how to change colors to enhance visibility. Users can control the timing of elements using the timeline to make characters appear at specific moments in the animation.

Here, Joe explains how to animate character movement in a scene. Using Animaker's Smart Move feature, he shows how to move a character from one point to another, adjusting the character's position and timing using the timeline. The 'thumbs' on the timeline represent start and end positions, allowing users to control how long the movement takes. Joe provides an example of a character entering the scene at the 5th second and moving across the screen by the 10th second.

In this segment, Joe introduces Animaker’s custom character creation feature. Instead of selecting a pre-made character, users can create a unique one by choosing gender, facial features, attire, and accessories, offering billions of combinations. After creating the character, it is saved and added to the video project. Joe demonstrates how to assign multiple actions (walking, waving, and talking) to a character using the action plus option and positions the actions on the timeline for smooth transitions.

Joe explains how to add voiceovers to the characters. Users can record their own voice, upload pre-recorded audio, or use Animaker’s text-to-speech feature. Joe demonstrates the text-to-speech method, where users select the dialogue, voice, and language, then adjust settings like speed, pitch, and volume. He also explains how to enhance the voice if using a paid account and syncs the voiceover with character actions by adjusting its position on the audio timeline.

This part of the tutorial covers how to add camera effects to the animation. Joe explains the difference between static and dynamic camera options and shows how to use the dynamic camera feature. Users can adjust the camera’s focus by manipulating the timeline’s pink-colored bar to set the effect's duration. Joe also walks through adding background music from Animaker's library, adjusting the volume to ensure it doesn’t overpower the voiceover track.

In the closing section, Joe summarizes how to create multiple scenes and organize them to form a complete video. Users can easily add or delete scenes and control the video's overall structure. Finally, he demonstrates how to download the finished animation by using the 'publish' and 'download video' options. Joe encourages viewers to subscribe to the channel and start creating their own 2D animations using Animaker’s easy-to-use platform.