Anime Character Design and Animation: A Stable Diffusion, Photoshop and After Effects Tutorial | Pt1

Ever wanted to make and animate an anime character? Well now you can! In this 2 part tutorial I’ll show you how I use Stable Diffusion & Automatic1111 to source the foundation of an anime character. Then I’ll show the process of taking that image into Photoshop, refining it, taking it back into Automatic1111s img2img for inpainting.

You’ll see the entire process of refinement, using a variety of Photoshops tools, until we have both a character and a background we’re happy to take into After Effects for animation.

◆ TUTORIAL LINKS ◆

🤖 | STABLE DIFFUSION AUTOMATIC1111 LAZY TUTORIALS
‘A quick no nonsense playlist to help get you started with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111’
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl…

🤗 | HUGGING FACE
‘Where you can get your Stable Diffusion model files’
https://huggingface.co/NiteStormz/ProtoThing_200

🎨 | PART 02
‘In the second part of this tutorial I’ll show you how I rig and animate the character.’
https://youtu.be/kxYXIptr-M0

💬 | DISCORD
‘Pretty empty right now but the aim’s to eventually have it as a creative network where people can share insights into art and tech’
https://discord.gg/HNecqYUwZT

◆ CHAPTERS ◆

Intro – 00:00
Stable Diffusion Settings – 00:38
Generating Characters – 01:36
Tidying Up In Photoshop – 02:14
Img2Img In Automatic1111 – 03:17
Separating The Character & Background – 06:29
Generating New Background – 08:02
More Refinement In Photoshop – 09:12
Separating The Layers – 09:52
Inpainting Sections – 10:34
Blending With A Layer Mask – 11:15
Fixing the Shoulder Piece – 11:32
Isolating The Head – 12:24
Retouching – 13:04
Cutting Out The Arm – 13:45
Layering For Arm Movement – 14:52
Isolating The Hair – 16:25
Isolating The Eyes – 16:41
Separating The Hair & Face – 17:41
Creating More Face – 18:28
The Hair Strands – 18:39

◆ MUSIC ◆
Kitrano – Sentient
Kitrano – Slow Evening
Less Gravity – Press Start
Liquify – Afternoon
Liquify – Midnight
Magiksolo – Astra
Man with Roses – Afternoon
Ottom – Komorebi
Ottom – Quiet Street

◆ THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT ◆

Building a channel takes a lot of work and I wouldn’t be able to do it without all the support, so it’s much appreciated!

◆ LINKS ◆

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0iryLKSMqCRmYx0niXqc0x?si=qiI-PEWLScG-yK3OYbKTJQ
CREDITS: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6382359/?ref_=fn_al_nm_3

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DISCORD: https://discord.gg/HNecqYUwZT

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