animated cartoons are extremely popular on YouTube and today I'm going to teach you how I made an animated version of the Y files this method is free and perfect for beginners so everyone watching can follow along and make a video just like this welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ and I'm Heckle fish the brains of the operation sure Heckle fish if by brains you mean the guy who thinks the moon is made of cheese hey I'm just saying nobody's ever brought me a moon
Ro to prove me wrong anyway today we're diving into one of the most enduring Mysteries of the 20th century the Bermuda Triangle ships Vanishing planes disappearing and Compasses going haywire is it aliens government experiments or just bad weather oh I vote aliens it's always aliens not so fast Heckle fish let's start with the facts the Bermuda Triangle also known as The Devil's Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean over the years dozens of ships and PLS have reportedly vanished Without a Trace dun dun dun some say it's a portal
to another dimension others blame underwater alien bases but here's the thing scientists have a much simpler explanation turns out the Bermuda Triangle is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world combine that with unpredictable weather strong currents and human error and you've got a recipe for disaster oh sure blame the humans next you'll tell me Bigfoot is just a guy in a furry suit well actually don't even start AJ I've seen the footage that guy's got moves all right let's wrap this up while the Bermuda Triangle is fascinating the truth is probably less exciting
than the myths but hey that's why we're here to separate fact from fiction and to remind everyone that aliens are definitely real right AJ we'll save that for another episode thanks for watching and don't forget to like comment and subscribe and remember stay curious stay skeptical and always bring snacks for your local Heckle fish first let's go over how to make this animation step number one is going to be getting a script for our video so I'm going to head over to deep seek in order to get the script now that I'm here on deep
seek all I'm going to do is paste in this prompt which says can you write me a short video script like the Y files and I'm going to send that through and deep seek is going to go ahead and create a script based off of that YouTube channel the Y files now that we have our script go ahead and paste in this prompt which says now can you extract just AJ part and also just Heckle fish's part I have to run these through an AI text to speech tool so I need just their speaking Parts
this is going to make it a lot easier when we go to run it through the text to speech tool now that we have all of our character speaking Parts what we can do is come over to a text to speech tool so I'm going to come over here to dup duub believe it or not this is probably the most important part of the entire video that we're making cuz when it comes to cartoon animations the character's voice is extremely important if it doesn't have a different range of emotions it's just not going to fit
that character right so I was able to find on dubdub I found some really good animation voices come back to deep seek and just highlight AJ's speaking Parts copy that and come back over here to dup duub paste it in now I have all of his speaking lines and I can just run it all through at once now for the voice I decided to go with this one Furious leopard on the left hand side you have all these different categories when you click on animation videos they got all different types of characters and animation voices
and believe it or not I use the same voice for AJ as well as for Heckle fish finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary this voice has different range of emotions and it's really energetic and it's going to be perfect for a cartoon animation now in order to use this voice for two different characters what I did was I just changed the pitch click on select for furious leopard come over here to where it says generate full text when I click that it's going to generate the voice over and you'll be able to
hear our voice over welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ come back over to deep seek copy Heckle fish's speaking part and come back over to dubdub paste that in and then I'm going to change the pitch up to four so if I just increase that pitch it's just going to give him a higher pitch voice and make his voice sound more like Heckle fish from the real YouTube channel all right and then I'm going to click on generate text and I'll get Heckle fish's
voice over and I'm Heckle fish the brains of the operation now that I'm here on the yfiles channel I'm going to show you a cool little trick on how I was able to build that cartoon scene for the background once I get to a part where it's AJ and Heckle fish and the scene in the background I'll take a screenshot come over here to Claude AI I'm going to put this prompt in that says I just want you to describe the room and the fish tank please exclude the man in the image also I want
the description for a cartoon animation style of this image and then I'm going to click on the paper clip and I'm going to go ahead and upload that image select all of this and I'll click copy and I'm going to come over here to a free image generator called pck Lumen I will just paste in that prompt click on this aspect ratio box and make sure you choose 16 by9 send that through now here is our scene and it's a cartoon animated version of the Y file scene it's perfect exactly what I was looking for
now for the next step we can clean this up a little come over here to canva and now all I'm going to do is add in a red box and then we're going to go ahead and add in the white box and we're just going to build the name tag we're going to put in the text where it says hello and then we're going to put in my name is and of course we're going to put in Heckle fish written in like a handwriting type of font click on share then download this come over to
photo and we'll click on open from computer click on the image of the set that we just created come up here to where it says file and we're going to click on open and place click on hello so that is our sticker and we're just going to scale it down and we can place it right over top of the one that the AI created since it doesn't look right so now we can just block that off and another little touch that we can do is come up here to where it says edit go to transform
and click on warp and then we can just manipulate this just a little bit to where it makes it looks like the sticker is curved around the Fishbowl this is going to make it look more realistic instead of us just slapping it on there we're going to give it a little bit of curvature with that warp tool as you can see it looks like the sticker is actually curved and placed on the Fishbowl so that is perfect export as PNG cuz we have our Perfect Image for our background now that we have our background set
and we have our voiceovers we need to make our animated characters so I'm going to come over here to Adobe Express the free Avatar Creator click on create now what I did was I found two characters that were perfect to recreate the Y files I chose Mark click on background and make sure you click on custom color and choose a green background now we can click on browse right here and we're going to upload our audio click on that audio that we downloaded from dubdub and Adobe is going to animate this character for us now
that adobe is done we have a lip synced and animated character welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ download this one click on back click on character and let's find that fish bring him right in the middle click on replace audio upload his audio click on hecko fish's voice over that we got from dubdub upload that we have our animated Heckle fish character and I'm Heckle fish the brains of the operation this time we're going to record a silent version so we're going to click
on replace audio and instead of uploading audio we're going to click on record and we're going to be silent that way when Heckle fish is talking we don't want our character talking but we still want him animated and it's going to animate our character but this time it's just going to be silent if you watch closely you can see that his eyes are still blinking his head is still moving yet he's not talking so we're going to do the same exact thing with Heckle fish I'll skip over that part right now because you guys understand
the idea now that we have all of those recorded we need to go over to cap cut to put everything together and create our video click on create project and import all those videos as well as our background I'll bring this set down to the timeline let's bring in AJ and once we bring in AJ and put him on top of the background scene we're going to click on remove background and choose chroma key and then click on that green around him and we can bump up the intensity just a little bit to make sure
we get rid of all that green and then we're going to scale him up cuz we want him right about like there now what we need to do is separate all of his different lines so now that I have the script right here I'll be able to see where I need to cut every bit of this video in order to make sure all of his lines are cut into pieces so the first one will be welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange and mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ so once we
see that once we hear that part we need to cut it files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm a that's his first line so I'm going to highlight this and I'm just going to click on cut all right and now that I have that cut I'm going to drag it over because this will be the speaking part of heckle fish right here so I just need to cut this into all the separate pieces in order to make room for Heckle fish's speaking Parts okay so hopefully that makes sense I'm
going to go ahead and cut all of these lines and I'll be right back okay okay guys now as you can see I have all of my lines separated according to the script for AJ now I'm just going to go ahead and bring in hecko fish onto the timeline now before I cut this one into different parts according to the script I do want to do one thing while I have this whole video I want to come up here to effects and I'm going to click on under the effects Tab and I'm going to choose
the fishee I'm going to drag that effect onto hecko fish's part we want to make him look like he's actually in the Fishbowl and when you look at a goldfish inside a fishbowl he has that sort of warped fisheye look to him so we want to make it look like he's actually inside the Goldfish Bowl instead of us just putting him on top of the Goldfish Bowl remove back around and do the same thing click on chroma key click on that green right there and then we're just going to scale him down so we're going
to place him somewhere by the Fishbowl and then scale down until he looks like he's inside of the fish poow that's good right there and now what I can do is just go ahead and cut him into different parts and I'm Heckle fish the brains of the operation all right so I'm going to go ahead and cut it right after he says that and now I'm going to drag it over here let me unmute AJ's part and we can listen and make sure it's lined up unbelievable I'm AJ and I'm Heckle fish the brains of
the operation sure Heckle fish if by brains you mean the guy who thinks so as you can see now it's starting to take shape and you guys can see how it's coming together now let me go ahead and cut Heckle fish's Parts down according to the script and I'll be right back they now have dialogue all the way back and forth let's come back to the media Tab and we need to add in our silent animation the way that I do it is I line it up where when AJ stops speaking and it's cut I'm
going to select his silent clip and I'm going to click on delete left okay okay and then I'm going to come over here and I'm going to line it up with once he starts speaking again right here you see it's lined up with this clip and I'm going to click on split and I'm just going to keep doing that all the way throughout okay guys now if I scroll through this video you'll see that AJ is on screen at all times cuz I filled in all the gaps with his silent part and so the only
thing left to do is to do the same thing for Heckle fish so I'll bring in his silent animation right above his talking parts and I'm just going to go ahead and do the same exact thing okay guys now that I have filled in all of those gaps with his silent animation I should now be able to play the video and they're going to have their dialogue all the way through and it should be look perfect welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ and I'm
Heckle fish the brains of the operation sure Heckle fish if by brains you mean the guy who thinks the Moon is now the only thing left to do is to add in our background footage and for that what I did was I went over to ve Tey one of my favorite websites click on this drop- down box and click on videos Type in Bermuda Triangle click on the license type over here on the left hand side and it's going to drop down and then you want to check on free license that way any of these
videos that pop up you'll be able to use in your video completely for free so these type of animated videos are going to be perfect for the b-roll stock that we're going to add into the background of our video so I'm just going to go ahead and download a couple more of these and I'll meet you back in capcut all right guys now as you can see I have added in the b-roll footage and all you're going to do is add it in at the top of the timeline and that way you can place this
b-roll footage in the perfect spots for example Mysteries of the 20th century the Bermuda Triangle ships Vanishing planes disappearing and Compasses going haywire is it aliens government experiments or just bad weather oh I vote aliens it's always aliens not so fast hecko fish you're just going to keep on adding in those videos that we got from VY strategically you don't want to put too much cuz you also want to cut back to AJ and Heckle fish and you want to have a nice mixture of that to keep your viewers entertained and the final step is
going to be adding some background music that I've uploaded videos before before that I've used music from capcut and I ended up getting copyrighted so better to be safe than sorry and just come over here to YouTube and use your creator music studio and you're just going to make sure you choose forever under licensed duration and then for Price make sure you have it selected on zero so that way all of these songs are going to be free to download and use in your videos then all I did was type in mysterious right here and
I was able to find some really good background music like this one just click on download track bring that back over to cap cut and that's going to really set the mood for this video so now that we have our background music and all of our b-roll footage we can go ahead and check out the final product welcome to the Y files where we explore the strange the mysterious and the downright unbelievable I'm AJ and I'm Heckle fish the brains of the operation sure Heckle fish if by brains you mean the guy who thinks the
moon is made of cheese hey I'm just saying nobody's ever brought me a moonrock to prove me wrong anyway today we're diving into one of the most enduring Mysteries of the 20th century the Bermuda Triangle ships Vanishing planes disappearing and Compasses going haywire is it aliens government experiments or just bad weather oo I vote aliens it's always aliens not so fast Heckle fish let's start with the f fact the Bermuda Triangle also known as The Devil's Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean over the years dozens of ships and
PLS have reportedly vanished Without a Trace dun dun dun some say it's a portal to another dimension others blame underwater alien bases but here's the thing scientists have a much simpler explanation turns out the Bermuda Triangle is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world combine that with unpredictable weather strong current and human error and you've got a recipe for disaster oh sure blame the humans next you'll tell me Bigfoot is just a guy in a furry suit well actually don't even start AJ I've seen the footage that guy's got moves all right let's
wrap this up while the Bermuda Triangle is fascinating the truth is probably less exciting than the myths but hey that's why we're here to separate fact from fiction and to remind everyone that aliens are definitely real right AJ we'll save that for another episode thanks for watching and don't forget to like comment and subscribe and remember stay curious stay skeptical and always bring snacks for your local Heckle fish all right guys now that's it I hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial hopefully it helped you out and got your creative juices flowing if you think outside
the box you could come up with some pretty cool ideas in order to use adobe's Avatar features to create some really cool animated cartoons I will see you guys in the next video peace
