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I<\/span><\/b>‘m not a big fan of Adobe because of their overpriced subscription only model for their Creative Cloud Suite of applications, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like their software. Adobe Express<\/a> is a free Canva<\/a> alternative with cloud based art and design tools for creating graphics, videos and more, for all kinds of projects and social media (they even have a free AI prompt to image generator).<\/p>\n

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Adobe Express’\u00a0Animate From Audio<\/i> Quick Task
featuring the Sticky <\/i>character.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Animate From Audio<\/p>\n

Thanks to a video by Boss Media Tech<\/i>, I found the free Software they use<\/a>, I discovered Adobe Express’ Animate From Audio<\/i> tool, which apparently is being used to great effect by a few TikToker’s to create funny, viral videos. Specifically featuring the Sticky, Stickman character.<\/div>\n

The tool can be found in the Quick Tasks<\/i> section under the main ‘+’ menu. Just select Animate from Audio<\/i>.<\/p>\n

With it you can create a quick video (up to 2 minutes) simply by recording your own voice, or uploading an audio file, selecting a character, background, and aspect ratio for the animation, then hitting the Preview button.<\/p>\n

The application will do all the animation for you including facial expressions, lip sync, and hand gestures. It’s not award winning animation but it’s a few steps above just a static character with lip sync – and it does seem to match the hand gestures and facial expressions reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Limitations<\/h3>\n
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Using a Green screen background to create a
character animation that can be overlaid
on an existing animation in a video editor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For quick animated messages, you can easily share, it’s great. Unfortunately you can only include a single character in your animation, and, while there is a good range of characters in many styles, there’s no ability to upload your own (or even make one from an inbuilt character maker).<\/p><\/div>\n

There is an option to create a transparent background behind your character. So you could make your initial animation with one character, leaving space to place another. Then animate the second character with a transparent background, download both animations and combine them in your preferred video editor… except the application won’t let you download animations with transparent backgrounds.<\/p>\n

To get around this, instead of transparency, use a green background that you can chroma key out.<\/p>\n

Below is a a two character video I created where I first animated the boy (named Ash) speaking his lines. Then I animated the girl (named Jet) on a green background, which I mirrored, and then used chroma key in my video editing software to create the final animation (adding in different camera shots in my editor as well).<\/p>\n