Interactive Avatar Advanced Instructions
Last updated August 9, 2024
When creating your Interactive Avatar, we offer two options to record your footage:
- Upload a Google Drive or local video file
- Record with your computer's webcam
Please keep in mind that uploading your footage from a higher quality camera is the better option to create a higher quality avatar.
🎬 Filming Tips
- Camera Quality: While the back-facing camera of a modern smartphones is adequate to record footage, use a professional-grade camera for best results.
- Environment: Choose a quiet space with good lighting and a simple background without too much detail.
- Video Length: For an Interactive Avatar, we require you to submit 2 minutes of footage depicting the subject in three different ‘modes’: listening mode, idle mode, and speaking mode.
- Type of footage:
- Listening (15 seconds)
- Purpose: To show active engagement.
- Engage with facial expressions (e.g., raise eyebrows, smile) to demonstrate you are attentively listening.
- Talking (90 seconds)
- Purpose: To convey your message.
- Speak clearly and confidently, ensuring your message is concise and to the point.
- Idling (15 seconds)
- Purpose: To show attentive presence.
- Maintain a neutral expression and simply nod occasionally, without additional facial expressions.
- Resolution: We recommend filming in 1080p for higher avatar quality. 4K at 60FPS is even better.
- Continuous Shot: Do not edit or cut the footage in the middle. It should be a continuous shot.
- Stability: Stay still and avoid sudden head motions or unnatural body movements. Be natural and calm. Your avatar will perform exactly as you do.
- Eye Contact: Maintain direct eye contact with the camera at all times. Avoid looking around or up and down during the recording.
- Hand Movements: We recommend keeping your hands mostly out of frame while filming a Interactive Avatar. If you choose to include your hands in the footage, keep them below chest level, and try to keep them mostly in a clasped or still position. Do not make exaggerated gestures while filming.
- Pauses: Take pauses with lips closed between sentences and look at the camera.
Try to keep the same body-position for the whole 120 seconds of the input video!
Looking for more information? Check out our Interactive Avatar 101 Guide
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