To bring your photo avatars to life, here's a breakdown of the steps involved in uploading, generating, training LORA models, creating new looks, and adding motion/sound effects for use in HeyGen videos:

Steps to Use the Photo Avatar API

1. Upload Existing Photos or Generate New AI Avatar Photos: You can upload a set of your own photos or generate new AI photos.
2. Create an Avatar Group: Create an Avatar Group by grouping photos of the same subject.
   1. Train the Avatar Group: Once your Avatar Group is created, you can train the model to recognize the subject's unique features, expressions, and other elements to ensure it generates realistic avatars.
   2. Create New Looks for the Avatar: You can use prompts to generate various "looks" for the avatar, such as different clothing, scenes, or poses. This is done within the trained Avatar Group, giving you diverse outputs.
3. Add Motion and Sound Effects Programmatically: You can enhance the avatars by adding dynamic motion and sound effects programmatically. This includes enabling the avatar to move or react to speech and adding audio to bring the avatar to life.

Conclusion

Once you've created the photo avatar and added motion and sound effects, you can use these avatars in video generation. This makes it possible to integrate highly personalized, animated avatars into video content creation, enhancing the overall user experience.