Are you so ugly or afraid you
might damage the camera
equipment if you put your face
in front of it?
Have you ever thought if only
there was a way to create
content and not risk others'
personal safety?
Do people tell you all the
time that you have a face for
radio?
These days it's easier than
ever to stream or create
content without even showing
your face.
I'm gonna show you a bunch of
different ways to do it today
and give you some examples of
channels that have already
done it.
There are two channels that I
know of that have a lot of
success and use the first
faceless tactic I want to talk
about today,
and that is wearing some sort
of a helmet or mask.
In the case of Chris Fix,
he does car repair related
content where he mostly shows
his hands.
Hey guys,
Chris Fix here and today I'm
gonna show you how to remove
dents from your car.
Now I have no clue what the
previous owner did to get all
these dents,
but that's okay because it
gives me the opportunity to
show you guys how to remove
dents and make this perfectly
smooth.
So you would never even know
there are any dents here in
the first place.
Two main methods to remove
dents from your car.
First is a paintless dent
removal kit like this.
And if you have shallow,
non sharp dents,
this kit can help remove those
or make them less visible.
On rare occasions we see him
wearing a racing helmet to do
scenes where he is in the car.
This is the junkyard motor
that we got last year after we
blew up.
So the the common failure
points we tried to like make a
little more reliable.
Seems like a reasonable set of
progress,
Jay.
Well,
it's good to see you back.
Good to see you as well.
The car looks nice.
The videos are very well
produced and they provide
amazingly detailed car repair
information.
I have no doubt that there is
a lot of work that he's
putting into these videos.
Now the other channel is
Overlord D V D,
and he does pop culture
commentary.
Greetings my friends,
today I come before you with
news of what is increasingly
appearing to be a victory in
our war to save pop culture.
The Feedback Indy five looks
like another triumph for
Disney,
not.
Indeed skull of Calderone.
They are running and hiding
with this move Well looks like
Mimie it's Kathleen Kennedy
dangling from that Bombay
door,
not flea bang.
Indeed,
Harvey Cthulhu.
He wears a helmet and an
outfit and uses a voice
changer in his content and
even does live streams so you
can live stream without
showing your face.
Now he generally has the same
backdrop and scenes for every
video with a cast of
characters that he interacts
with as well.
This is studio content and
it's probably a lot easier to
produce than the Chris Fix
stuff.
As long as you have a great
script,
you can find success doing
this.
Now,
if you don't like the idea of
using a helmet,
there are virtual avatars that
you could use.
A program like animaze will
allow you to select from a
collection of different
characters and you could even
create your own character.
Here is the Animaze Launcher
and of course you uh,
have the animaze editor right
here where you can create your
own as well.
We're just gonna launch
animaze and I'll give you a
real quick walkthrough of how
this works.
When it first comes up you're
gonna have this guy right here
and you can see we've got an
image with dots on my face and
we talk,
and this is pretty easy to add
to your O B S,
but let me give you a little
bit of an idea of what you can
use.
We've got a bunch of different
characters over here that you
can use.
You can see we put this one in
front of a green screen so
that it allows you to add your
own background,
that sort of stuff.
Very,
very simple,
easy stuff to use.
And there are hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of these
icons out there that you could
play around with.
Some pretty cool stuff.
Oh,
we got a TP roll here,
you know,
just in case.
And we'll take a look at this
little guy here.
Now,
there are all kinds of ways
that you can modify these and
you don't have to use the
green screen background if you
don't want to,
but we're gonna use it and we
have our virtual camera on
already.
So all we need to do is start
up obs and we can take a look
and see how this works.
So let's first create a new
scene and add this little guy.
We're gonna click the plus.
We're gonna go and add them.
All you have to do is click
the plus.
We're gonna go to video
capture device,
and we are going to go ahead
and call this animaze and
we'll click okay,
drop this down.
We select our animaze virtual
camera.
There's our little puffy
fellow,
okay?
And it doesn't like when you
add your audio as a custom
audio device,
so we're not gonna do that.
We're gonna leave that go for
now,
and I'll just add my audio
separately.
We'll go into audio input
capture,
and we'll just create our
audio device right here.
Very simple,
easy workaround.
There we go.
Now we have our audio device,
and you can see I'm a cute,
furry little thing.
We wanna remove our green
screen from this,
so we're gonna right click,
we're gonna go into filters,
and we will add a chroma key.
Super simple.
Now all we need to do is add
some form of background.
So let's go ahead and add a
media source.
And I'm gonna browse and find
one on our local hard drive
here.
I think I have just the
perfect one,
and we'll go ahead and loop
our video.
And there we go.
We'll just move this down
below.
And now we're like a little
alley cat just hanging out in
the streets.
We can make ourselves smaller.
And there we go.
This is pretty easy to use a
virtual avatar.
It's simple to set up and kind
of fun to use,
but I don't think these
avatars have a whole heck of a
lot of personality.
There are ways to make them go
better with your eyes and your
facial expressions and all
that sort of stuff,
but you really gotta work it
to make it work.
And there is a link to animaze
in the description below if
you want to check it out for
yourself.
Now,
this app will allow you to
stream or create content
without ever showing your face
totally free.
If you wanna see me do a
deeper dive in animaze and
show you how it all works,
let me know in the comments.
The virtual avatar is much
more popular with streamers
for sure.
The final style of content
that you can do without
showing your face is the most
common type,
and that is voiceover content
that you see all over YouTube.
The creator collects B-roll
related to the subject and
does a voiceover to tell you
the story in the video,
but the visuals are all
B-roll.
This method definitely takes
the most work to accomplish.
Locating all the video files
and images needed to tell the
story in an interesting way
can be really difficult.
Most creators who do this use
a service repository that has
all kinds of B-roll and images
that you can use.
That way they don't have to
search all over the web to
find stuff they can actually
use without violating
someone's copyright.
Now,
I personally use Envato
elements for my b roll.
There is a link in the
description down below if you
want to check it out for
yourself.
You can search for specific
terms and find pretty much any
video or image that you might
need to tell your story.
You can also buy usage to them
a la carte or just pay for
full access and use anything
you want as often as you want.
Let me show you how easy it is
to use.
Here I am in Envato Elements,
and let's say we wanted to do
a video of about camping.
We can just type camping in
here and it's gonna come up.
We've got photos of camping.
We have stock video of
camping,
we have graphic templates for
camping.
We also have graphics that we
can add over top of any of the
video elements.
They also have 3D elements
that you can add to your
scenes and sound effects.
Music about camping.
So literally we can find all
kinds of stuff.
And it actually lists,
you've got 24,000
stock videos about camping,
40,000
stock photos that involve
camping.
So you're gonna easily be able
to put together the graphics
and stuff for some kind of
story about camping,
but this comes with a lot more
too.
So you've got templates,
we have stock video footage,
obviously we have video
templates that you can use for
After Effects,
Premier Pro,
Apple Motion,
Da Vinci,
and Final Cut Pro Music that
you can download that's
royalty free and you never
have to worry about getting
copyright strikes.
Sound effects,
same thing,
graphic templates,
graphics,
presentations,
photos,
even fonts,
all kinds of add-ons that you
can add to all of the things
that you might use to create
your video content web
templates.
And there is so much more.
They even have training
courses to show you how to
become a better editor,
how to use the 3D stuff,
all kinds of interesting
things that you can use
Envato elements for.
So if you are trying to do a
faceless channel where you
just need stock footage and
that sort of stuff,
this is an absolutely awesome
option that makes it so easy
to find video and photos as
well as sound effects for your
faceless videos.
I use this service for every
video,
so it's useful even if you
aren't doing totally faceless
content.
Oh,
and if you wanna see a deeper
dive into how Envato Elements
works,
let me know when the comments
below.
I'm really excited to know
what type of faceless content
you are looking to do.
So let me know that too and
check this video out,
if you wanna see a little more
about Animaze.
And if you're always looking
for tools,
tips,
and tricks that can help make
you a better live streamer or
YouTuber,
subscribe to the channel.
My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for
watching.
Have a great day and I'll see
you in the next one.