Google Vids: Creating and animating custom AI avatars

Justin Brown - Primal Video·Jun 2026

Demo summary

The demo walks through building a custom middle-aged male avatar and generating a lip-synced video clip of the avatar speaking.

Step-by-step

Enter your script into the text area
Click Create a custom avatar
Select Build from scratch
Define the avatar's gender, age, and outfit style
Select a generated avatar and click Next
Name the avatar and select a voice from the recommended list
Click Generate to render the video clip

Options

Start with a preset image prompt (e.g., man in front of a colorful wall) instead of building from scratch
Refine the avatar's hairstyle or clothes
Upload a logo to the avatar's clothing
Recreate or refine the avatar if the initial generation isn't satisfactory
Choose from cartoon-style avatars

Watch out for

You cannot upload your own image to create a custom avatar of yourself
Lip-syncing is not visible in the preview and only happens after the final rendering

Tips

Mouse over the avatar presets to hear a sample of their speech
Preview different voices before generating, as the initial AI recommendations may not always match the desired tone
Go back and re-watch the rendered clip to verify the quality of the lip-syncing

Highlights

“it actually did a pretty decent job with the lip syncing... it wasn't bad.”

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