Your agent can wear a face that comes from a picture. There are two ways in, and they live in two different places:
- Use my photo, while you create the agent. Your own picture becomes its face.
- Generate a portrait, in Avatar Studio, once the agent exists. A portrait is made for you, and you pick the one you like.
Before you upload: whose picture is it?
Upload only a picture of yourself, or one you have the right to use. A face is how people will recognise your agent, so it should never borrow someone else's without their say. If you have no such picture, the portrait lane below makes one for you instead.
Way one: your photo, while you create
Open the creation flow at Create your agent. Fill in the first step, then press Give it a face.
Step 2 shows its lanes as tabs: Pick a face, Generate a face, Use my photo and Use my VRM. Choose Use my photo.
- Press Choose a photo, or drag one onto the box that reads Drop a photo here, or click to choose. On a phone or tablet you also get Take a photo, which opens your camera.
- The page accepts JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 5 MB, as it says under the box.
- You watch it upload, then Checking your photo… while the server checks it. The page tells you what happens here: the photo is checked and re-encoded, and its camera and location details are removed the moment it arrives.
- When it lands, the preview panel on the left shows Your photo is the face, with your picture in it.
Nothing is saved to an agent yet. Your photo becomes a living face when you press Create agent in the last step, and until then you can press Choose a different photo or clear it and start again.
Optional: compile your look
Under your photo there may be a Compile my look button. It measures the eyes, nose and mouth in your photo, which takes a few seconds, and builds a moving character from them that you can fine-tune later. It sits beside your photo so you can compare the two.
This is extra. Your photo stays the agent's face either way. If you would rather not, press Keep the plain photo. If the measurement fails when you create, your photo still becomes the face and creation goes through.
Then press Bring it alive and finish the remaining steps as in Create an agent.
Way two: a portrait made for you, in Avatar Studio
Once your agent exists, open its test drive. On that page a line reads "Choose or change your agent's face, with a live preview." Press Open Avatar Studio beside it.
Avatar Studio opens inside your own dashboard, with Test drive and Editor buttons at the top and a way back to your agent. On the left, Current image shows what your agent wears today. If it has no picture yet, it shows a face drawn from its name.
- Press Generate a portrait. Beside the button, a menu lets you leave the look on Auto (from name & role) or choose one yourself.
- Wait while it is made. The page says to allow about twenty seconds for each portrait.
- Each portrait appears in the grid. Roll as many as you like.
- Under the one you want, press Use this face. It becomes your agent's portrait, and the Current image panel changes to show it.
If a roll fails, the page tells you in red and you can press the button again. Portraits you have already rolled stay on the page when you come back.
Where the face shows
Avatar Studio lists the places under Where this face shows:
- Test drive, which only you can see.
- Public page, where anyone with the link can talk to your agent, once you have turned it on in the editor.
- On a screen, the face and a caption at ten-foot size for a TV, a lobby tablet or a phone on a stand, once the public page is on.
Wherever it appears, your agent is voice-first and hands-free. It speaks first, in its own voice, and a visitor's microphone opens only after the visitor taps. Typed chat waits in the small menu for anyone without a microphone or speaker. See Give it a voice that speaks first.
Changing it later
You can go back to Avatar Studio at any time and pick a new portrait. Your agent's face and its portrait are kept separately, and not everything about a face can be changed after creation yet. Change how it looks sets out what can be changed today, and where.