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Avatar Looks Explained

Create up to 500 unique avatar looks with customizable backgrounds, outfits, and angles!

Written by Avi

Avatar Looks let you customize your personal avatar with unlimited variations. Change backgrounds, settings, stances, outfits, and camera angles to suit your needs. Whether you’re crafting a single video or multiple, your digital twin can now go beyond the classic front-facing look for more dynamic and engaging scenes.

💡 Pro Tip: If you want your avatar to make a specific hand movement — like a thumbs up, a wave, or a pointing gesture — create a dedicated Avatar Look for it. Each Look can capture a distinct pose or expression, making your avatar library much more versatile and expressive across different video scenes.

Here’s a glimpse into the variety of Avatar Looks you can create, showcasing the possibilities:

  • Backgrounds: Indoors or outdoors : think sitting at your desk in an office, standing by a whiteboard, or casually positioned in a hallway.

  • Wardrobe: From professional attire to casual lifestyle looks : picture yourself in a suit jacket, button-down shirt, uniform, or mixing it up with different colors.

  • Camera Angles: Experiment with perspectives like front-facing, right-side, or left-side angles. Note-The entire face still needs to be visible ( not just one side)

  • Stance: Choose from sitting, standing, or even walking to match the vibe of your video.

The more looks you create, the more versatile your videos become!

For Video Looks, the avatar is generated directly from the original video footage, making the results very realistic, you can use them as a reference.

Each avatar can now have up to 500 looks [photo avatar and video avatar combined], all tied to the same identity. If you previously had three different avatars of yourself, they are now considered one avatar with three “looks.” You can upload footage of yourself from different angles, poses, outfits, and locations, making your videos more engaging and dynamic.

How much does it cost?
There’s no additional cost for creating video looks under your allocated slot. Photo looks that are generated, not uploaded, do cost some premium credits as per this article. This feature is available for every avatar slot, on all plans, both free and paid.


Understanding Your Avatar: Three Ingredients

Every avatar is built from three separable parts — knowing which is which helps you understand how Looks work and how to troubleshoot faster:

  • Motion comes from your video — it's what makes your avatar move like you (gestures, blinks, head tilts).

  • Look comes from a photo — your outfit, setting, and framing.

  • Voice comes from your audio — your tone and accent.

A single video delivers all three at once, since video is audio plus thousands of photo frames. That's why a strong video reference makes every Look better — it teaches the AI how you move across expressions. You can swap the Look or Voice separately afterward.

To create your first look, first follow this 101 article on How To Create Your First Digital Twin or watch this quick video here.

Once you've completed those steps, you can easily create more looks for this person! The process is the same as creating your avatar- just upload or record your footage and design your new look!

Photo Looks vs. Video Looks:

Your avatar can include both Photo Looks and Video Looks. A Photo Look can come from a real photo you upload or be designed with AI using prompts, references, and Look Packs.

A Video Look is created directly from uploaded video footage and reflects what was captured in that original footage, making it the best option when you want the Look to stay fully grounded in your real recording.


How to Create an Avatar Look

To create a new Look, click “Add Looks"

You can choose from several ways to provide your source photo or video:

  • Upload — Upload a photo or video directly from your device.

  • Design with AI — Create a new Photo Look using AI, prompts, and references.

  • Use webcam — Record new video footage directly with your computer’s webcam.

  • Google Drive — Import existing photo or video footage directly from Google Drive.

  • Instagram — Import content from Instagram to use as your source.

  • YouTube — Use eligible video content from YouTube as your source.

  • TikTok — Import content from TikTok.

  • Other link — Paste a supported link to existing online content.

  • Record via phone — Continue the recording process on your phone, making it easier to capture high-quality footage with your mobile camera.

One Time Only Consent

For Looks, you only need to record the consent video once when creating your avatar. There’s no need to re-record it each time, since it is the same person you originally provided consent for.


The Details

You can create up to 500 looks per avatar slot [photo avatar and video avatar combined] and delete or create new ones at any time, offering virtually unlimited looks.

To add a video look, you must upload a 2+ minute video of the person, with their face visible and uncovered throughout. All footage must feature the same person as in the avatar consent footage, uploading footage of someone else will cause the upload to fail.

When creating videos in AI Studio, you can select an avatar and choose the look you want to use. Switching between multiple looks for different scenes can make your videos feel more natural and engaging.

For Existing Users with Digital Twins

All your existing avatars will be grouped by identity. If you had multiple video avatars of the same person, they have been grouped together as a single avatar, and each footage upload is called a Look.

If we made a mistake while automatically grouping your avatars, please contact our support team at [email protected] .


Explore Endless Avatar Variations with Photo Looks

Once you have a few Looks based on real pictures, you can start using the Design a Look section to create entirely new variations of your avatar without recording new footage.

Start by selecting an existing Look as your base. This gives the generation a strong identity reference and helps maintain consistency across your new Looks.

Click on the Avatar section > Design a Look.

From the Design a Look page, you have several ways to create:

  • Write a prompt describing how you want to transform your base Look — change the outfit, environment, styling, framing, mood, or other visual details.

  • Add reference images to give the model additional visual guidance for the result you want.

  • Use a Look Pack to instantly explore complete, predefined visual directions with coordinated outfits, settings, poses, and compositions.

💡 Look Packs vs. custom prompting — know when to use each:

  • Look Packs are ideal for larger transformations. Choose a base Look, then select a Look Pack to quickly place your avatar into a completely different visual direction.

  • Custom prompting gives you more precise control. Start from your base Look and describe exactly what you want to change.

  • Reference images can be added when you want the generation to follow a particular outfit, style, environment, or other visual inspiration.

  • Best workflow: Start with a strong base Look that clearly represents you, then use Look Packs for bigger creative changes or prompts and references for more specific variations.

⚠️ Match what you give to what you want back: Whatever the AI cannot see in your references, it may need to invent. For example, asking for a full-body result from a face-only reference means the model has less information about the rest of your appearance. Give the model clear references for the details you want it to preserve.

One strong base Look can unlock dozens of creative directions. Use Design a Look to move between Look Packs, prompts, and reference images while keeping your existing Look as the foundation for each new generation.

This lets you experiment freely, refine your appearance, and explore variations without re-recording from scratch. One strong base Look can unlock dozens of creative directions, helping you adapt your avatar to any context or story.

Use a reference look to keep consistency between your different generations :

Liberate your imagination !

prompt here : rockstar in Los Angeles.

Once your look is ready, you can always delete it if you don’t like it to free up a spot for a new one or edit it using prompts.


Making Your Look Video-Ready

Remember you're not just making a photo — you're making a look that gets lip-synced into video, so some poses work against you:

  • ✅ Use half or upper-body framing, face clearly visible, natural expression, and hands in a neutral resting position so they adapt to any script.

  • ❌ Avoid implied lower-body motion (mid-step, on a bike) — it causes frozen or looping motion in video.

  • ❌ Avoid a face that's too small (common in zoomed-out shots) — lip sync quality degrades when the face takes up too little of the frame.

💡 Want real movement in your video? Use Cinematic mode (Seedance 2.0) instead of trying to force motion into a static look. Cinematic gives you dynamic, director-style shots in up to 15-second clips.

💡 Pro move: Lock in one great setting, generate 10–20 outfit variations in it, and cycle through them when posting daily — keeps your content fresh without looking automated.


Edit and Refine an Existing Avatar Look

Once you’ve created an Avatar Look, you don’t always need to generate a completely new one to explore variations.

Simply click on the Look you want to modify. This opens a set of options that let you either refine the existing appearance or create new variations based on that Look.

From there, you can:

  • Adjust the appearance with presets and advanced controls.

  • Generate new camera angles based on the current Look.

  • Use Custom Edit to modify specific details with a prompt.

  • Remix into a Scene to use the Look as a reference and create new variations from it.

Your existing Look stays as the starting point, making it easier to experiment while maintaining a consistent identity and visual direction.


✨ Appearance

Use Appearance when you want to enhance or fine-tune how you look without changing the overall scene.

You can quickly choose between appearance presets such as:

  • Refine — enhances your appearance while keeping the result natural.

  • Studio — gives your Look a more polished, studio-ready appearance.

  • Glow — adds an enhanced, camera-ready finish.

For more control, expand Advanced to manually adjust individual appearance settings.

Depending on the available controls, you can fine-tune details such as:

  • Smooth skin

  • Makeup

  • Remove blemishes

  • Slim face

  • Exposure

  • BrillianceHighlights

  • Shadows

  • Contrast

  • Brightness

  • Saturation

  • Warmth

Adjust the sliders until you’re happy with the result, then select Save as new to preserve the edited version as a new Look.


📷 Camera Angles

Want the same Look from another perspective? Select Camera angles to generate additional views of your existing Look.

This is useful when you want more visual variety between scenes without completely changing your avatar’s outfit, environment, or overall visual identity.


🪄 Custom Edit

Select Custom edit when you know exactly what you want to change.

Simply describe the modification in your own prompt. This works best for targeted changes, such as adjusting clothing, colors, accessories, or details in the environment.

For example:

Change the jacket to black.

or:

Replace the background with a modern office.

💡 Best practice: Make one focused change at a time. Small custom edits are more likely to preserve your identity than asking the model to completely redesign the Look in a single prompt. This is consistent with the existing recommended workflow of using larger Look changes first, followed by smaller custom edits.


🎬 Remix into a Scene

Use Remix into a Scene to jump directly into the Design Look page, where you can take your existing Look in new creative directions.

From there, you can use your Look as a reference and modify it with a prompt, add additional reference images, or apply a Look Pack directly to create a new outfit, setting, pose, or overall scene.

This gives you a quick way to build new variations from an existing Look while keeping your avatar as the creative starting point.


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Can I create Looks for different people under the same avatar?
No. Avatar Looks are tied to a single person, and all looks must be created using footage of the same person who provided consent. You cannot mix looks of different people under one avatar.

How many Looks can I create?
You can create unlimited looks for each avatar, but you can store up to 500 at a time. You can delete old looks and add new ones without any limits on deletions.

Do I need to provide consent for every new look?
No. You only need to provide consent once for the first look. Any additional looks can be added as long as they match the original footage.

What kind of videos can I use for Avatar Looks?
You need to upload a video of at least 2 minutes where your face is clearly visible and uncovered throughout. It should be clear footage of the person who provided consent.

Can I use different backgrounds and outfits in my looks?
Yes! You can change backgrounds, outfits, camera angles, and poses to add variety to your Avatar Looks.

I don’t like my Avatar / Look – can I delete or redo it?
Yes! You can delete and create new looks as often as you like. For the avatar itself, you have one redo per billing cycle month. This means you can delete your avatar and looks once per cycle and create a new one. After two deletions, you won't be able to create a third identity avatar.

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