Video Clips with a 3D Character: How to Create a Short Video
Sometimes you want to show the character not in a 3D viewer but as a finished clip: for social media, a presentation or to test an idea. Animatic can create short video clips in which your character performs a given motion.
How It Works
The program takes your character and the motion you chose and creates a video. The clip is assembled by a neural network frame by frame, so it does not require installing a 3D editor or rendering by hand. The result can be saved and used anywhere.
What You Can Do
- Create a clip with your character based on motion from a video or from an animation.
- Extend the clip. The video is built up with segments: you add new fragments to an already finished clip.
- Test an idea before the final animation: you can see how the character looks in motion.
Computer Requirements
Video creation is the most hardware-demanding function of the program. For comfortable work you need a powerful NVIDIA graphics card: we recommend the RTX 4090 class and above with enough video memory. On weaker cards the clips will take a very long time to create or will not run at all.
How to Create a Clip
- Prepare a character with a finished skeleton and check its animation in the viewer.
- Choose the motion: from a video, from a text description or a ready animation.
- Set the clip parameters and start the creation.
- Review the result. If needed, extend the clip with new segments.
- Save the video to the project's results folder.
Tip
So as not to waste time on video generation for nothing, first check the animation in the viewer. If the motion looks wrong, fix it before creating the clip: this saves both time and graphics-card resources.
What Next
Finished animations can be exported to a game engine: see the article "Export to FBX and GLB". The motion for a clip can be taken from video or a text description.