Create an avatar from a photo

No footage? Describe the presenter you want and Roxybit creates the character, or upload a photo you already have. Useful when you need a presenter who is not you.

Before you start

• A free avatar slot — see Slots.
• Credits: generating a character costs a small fee per image, and you can regenerate until you are happy.

Steps

1. On Characters, press Create character, choose From Photo, then pick your starting point.

   

   • Generate a character — describe them and the image is created for you.
   • Upload a photo — use an image you already have.

2. If you are generating: pick a starting point — Professional, Casual, Creative or Educator — then set Gender, Age and Ethnicity. Add Details for anything specific, such as shoulder-length brown hair, navy blazer, warm smile.

   

3. Press Generate character and wait — this takes up to about 90 seconds.

   

4. Look at the result. Press Regenerate for a different take on the same brief, or adjust the details first and then regenerate.

   

   Tip

   Change one thing at a time between regenerations. Rewriting the whole description usually gives you a different person rather than a refinement of this one.

5. When you are happy with the character, configure the avatar itself.

   

   Field	What it does
   Avatar name	Names the avatar, its group and its voice.
   Video quality	The highest quality this avatar can ever be rendered at.
   Voice gender	Which voice is generated for the character.
   Voice engine	Which engine produces that voice.
   Avatar group	Adds it to an existing character, or starts a new one.

6. Press Submit for review.

Choose the video quality carefully

Video quality is the one setting you cannot change later. It is the avatar’s native resolution: render a video at a higher resolution than this and the avatar is upscaled, which looks softer than the rest of the frame.

Caution

Pick a quality equal to or above the videos you plan to make. If you will ever produce 1080p, do not create the avatar at 720p. 4K requires a Team plan.

What happens next

Your character is reviewed before any video is generated, and the video cost is only charged after approval — you are charged for the character image itself, not for a video that never gets made. The avatar sits under In review until it is approved, then moves to My Avatars.

Caution

If you see a slot error, delete an avatar you no longer need or move to a plan with more slots. Avatars still in progress count against the limit as well.

Next steps

• Add an avatar in the Studio — put the presenter in a video.
• Create from a video — more lifelike, if you can film someone.
• Avatars — slots, groups and the review queue.