In Talking Pictures 2.0, I think I’ve found the perfect tool to create short engaging videos with animated characters to use as a teaching tool for Nursery kids.

From a single front facing image, there are over 50 different animations, visual expressions or hand movements that you can add to a photo to create a talking picture.

The process is as follows;

• Create new character

• Upload and select a photographic image.

• Enter specifics for the character through an a.i. prompt box;

  • Change eye colour, hair colour, clothing or the background to whatever you specify in the prompt.

  • Add a "Boka" effect, to blur the background or have the character standing or sitting.

• Add Audio the for the character to speak

  • This could be text to speech, Voice recording live, or a pre-recorded file uploaded to the system.

  • Then choose the language, style of voice (from an array of provided voice options) and the emotion you want when the text is converted into speech along with speed and pitch.

• Then Save as a project and render your video.

What I really like is the functionality to create a 2D/3D characters with the AI, like a rabbit in a tuxedo. Just weird things that young children are more likely to engage with.

Once the character has been generated and saved to a project, it's possible to replace the text and background and then merge clips together into a longer video. This allows for different characters to be created and each scene is then stitched together into a complete video.

Now it's time for me to create some scripts and put what I say into action, I'll provide links to the videos as soon as I've created them.