- The new character AvatarFX tool.
- The video shows a motionless image speaking with synchronized lip movements, gestures and long performance
- The tool supports everything, from human portraits to mythical creatures and speaking of inanimate objects
The images can be worth a thousand words, but the character. The company has a new tool called AvatarFX which transforms fixed images into expressive video avatars, speaking, singing and gesture. And not only photos of people, animals, paints of mythical animals, even an inanimate object can speak and express emotions when you include a sample of voices and a script.
Avatarfx produces surprisingly convincing videos. Everything, the precision of the lips, nuanced head inclinations, eyebrow increases and even appropriate dramatic hands -on gestures is all there. In a world already swirling with text generated by AI, images, songs and now whole podcasts, Avatarfx may resemble another intelligent toy. But what makes him special is how much he connects the voice to the visuals. You can nourish a portrait, a line of dialogue, a tone, and a character. Consider what comes out a performance, capable of long videos too, not just a few seconds.
It is thanks to the temporal coherence of the model, a fancy way to say that the avatar suddenly does not grow a third eyebrow between the sentences or to forget where his chin goes in the middle of the monologue. The movement of the face, hands and body synchronizes with what is said, and the end result seems, if not alive, then at least alive to play in an infomercial podcast or the end of evening guest a podcast on space lizards. Your creativity is the only thing between you and a soap-generated by AI-AI with the family refrigerator. You can see some examples in the demo below.
Living avatar
Of course, the magic fantasy speaking of the frame frame is accompanied by its just part of luggage. An AI tool that can generate realistic videos raises understandable concerns. The character seems to take these concerns seriously with a series of integrated safety measures for AvatarFX.
This includes the prohibition to generate content from images of minors or public figures. The tool also scrambles human downloaded faces so that they are no longer accurate, and all scripts are verified for relevance. If that is not enough, each video has a watermark to clearly indicate that these are not real sequences, just a few impressive animated pixels. There is also a strict policy of a strike to break the rules.
Avatarfx is not unprecedented. Tools like Heygen, Synthesia and Runway have also pushed the limits of the AI videos generation. But the entrance to the character. AI in space rises by merging by expressive avatars with its signature cat personalities. These are not only the speaking heads; These are characters with stories, personalities and the ability to remember what you said the last time you talked.
Avatarfx is currently in the test phase, with subscribers of character. Ai + likely to obtain the first dibs once it deploys. For the moment, you can join a waiting list and start dreaming of which selfies of your friends would make the best delivery system of Shakespearean monologue. Or what version of your childhood animal could finally become your therapist.
