Avatars in Studio

Avatars live in Studio, in the Avatars section. A New avatar is created in one of two modes. Builder assembles the character step by step: Identity, Body, Face and skin, Hair and Outfit. From prompt is free text in the What to create field and up to 16 of your own photos in Photo references. In both modes you choose a Style: Realism, Stylized 3D, Illustration or Custom, described in words.

From the description, Studio generates a view set: a reference portrait, a body sheet from the front, side and back, and a face sheet in four angles, 3/4 and profile on each side. The three images are generated in 4K, and the sheets are split into separate frames, so the character has eight views in total. Building the set costs 15 tokens, 5 for each of the three images. If the portrait, body sheet or face sheet does not come out well, it is repeated on its own without rebuilding the whole set.

In the Voice step, a Character voice from the voiceover library is linked to the avatar. The avatar speaks in this voice in Voiceover; without a linked voice, voiceover does not start. You can create and train your own voice with an active plan.

A finished avatar has Materials and three actions. Photoshoot creates new shots from a description of the look, pose or environment; with @ and References you add the avatar's materials and products from the Products section. In Voiceover you enter text and choose a shot or video, and the model makes a video where the character says the line. Animation turns a shot into a video from a description of the motion and the chosen duration. The model for each action is chosen in the settings, and the price is shown next to the button before launch.

Results go to the avatar's Materials. You can open, download, rename, edit a region, move to Trash and send them to a project with Add to project. In a project, the avatar is selected in the prompt bar References or mentioned in the prompt as @name. The model receives the portrait and both angle sheets, without picking images by hand. The avatar's voice is available in the voice picker, under Avatar voices.

Appearance is changed with two actions. Edit creates a new version from the current images with the described changes. Recreate rebuilds the avatar from its parameters, and its appearance may change. Previous versions stay in History. An older avatar with three views is moved to the current format with the Upgrade button on the Avatar 2.0 card: the description, parameters and references carry over from the current version, and the price is the same as building the set.

For a real person, From prompt mode has an Avatar V step. In it you upload or record with the camera a video of this person; the interface asks for one continuous take from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Then the person confirms consent in HeyGen, and the HeyGen Avatar V model with their digital twin appears in Voiceover.