This is where every avatar available to you lives: Synthesia's stock library, the ones you've created yourself, and any shared with you by teammates. From here, you can start a new video, preview or customize an avatar, and manage sharing and other settings.

This is also where you can create your own custom avatars.

Avatars are arranged in tabs (From Synthesia, My Avatars, Shared with me). On each tab, avatars are grouped into named sections—Express-2, Express-1, and Legacy—reflecting the underlying avatar model. This is the same grouping used in the avatar picker inside the editor; see Identifying avatar types in the picker for what each group supports.

Avatar actions

Hovering over an avatar's thumbnail—on any of the three tabs below—surfaces a set of quick actions. Which ones you see depends on the avatar's type.

Create video: available on every avatar. Starts a new video with that avatar already added.

Preview: shows how the avatar sounds and looks in motion, without leaving the page. Whether it's available depends on the avatar's type:

• Stock Personal Avatars and stock Studio Avatars: always previewable.
• Stock customizable avatars: previewable in most cases, though a small number aren't.
• Personal avatars from photo (your own, or ones shared with you) can't be previewed.

Where a preview is available, select the thumbnail, then select the play button in the preview modal.

Customize: available on customizable avatars only (stock and custom). Opens the same customization modal you'd reach from the avatar picker in the editor—see Customize an avatar: from the avatar picker for what it can do.

••• menu: covers sharing, renaming, deleting, and copying an avatar's ID. Copying the ID is handy if you want to reference that avatar from the Synthesia API or in Bulk personalization. See Managing your avatars below for the full set of options.

From Synthesia

Our full library of professional, ready-to-use stock Synthesia Avatars.

Synthesia's stock avatars are created from video footage of real actors who have given their consent.

Whether an avatar is customizable is implied by the caption under its name, rather than by a badge or logo:

• Customizable avatars (Express-2) show how many outfits they have, for example 2 outfits.
• Non-customizable avatars (Express-1, Legacy) show a short description of their single look instead, for example Orange T-shirt.

This page doesn't indicate multi-cam support—that's shown in the avatar picker inside the editor instead.

My Avatars

These are your custom avatars. Create, browse, and manage the avatars that represent you. This includes your custom Studio avatars, Personal avatars from photo, and legacy Personal avatars from video.

Shared with me

Avatars your team has shared with you. Ready to use in your videos.

Custom avatars

There are three types of custom avatars: Personal avatar from photo (customizable), Personal avatar from video (legacy), and Studio avatars.

Click on + Create Avatar in the upper left corner of the page in order to create a Custom Avatar.

Personal avatar from photo

Personal avatars from photo are customizable, so they support outfits, spaces, poses, and image and B-roll generation.

• See Avatar for how to add, customize, and use them in a scene.
• See Create an Avatar to learn how to create them.

Personal avatar from video (legacy)

Personal Avatars allow you to create Avatars using your own likeness, background and voice.

See Personal Avatars to learn more about how to create one, along with all of our tips, tricks, and best practices.

Studio avatars

Studio Avatars, like our Stock Avatars, leverage our Express-1 model to drive their performance. This results in performances that are astonishingly naturalistic and human-like.

See Studio Avatars to learn more about how to create one, along with best practices for capturing your footage.

Managing your avatars

Custom Avatar sharing

After you create an avatar, it will only be available to you, and only accessible from the account that you were logged into when you created it. You can share it with any team member in your workspace, or with the entire workspace.

Go to the Avatars page in your Synthesia account and find the avatar you want to share.

To share it with a specific user, or several users:

1. Open up the 3-dot menu and select Share.
2. Type the names of the users you'd like to share it with in the Select users field, or click on the dropdown button for that field to find them in a list of workspace users.
3. Click the Share button next to the Select users field to share your avatar.

To share it with the entire workspace:

1. Open up the 3-dot menu and select Share.
2. In the bottom-left of the Share menu, click on the Invite only dropdown.
3. Select the Shared with _Your Workspace Name_ option.

Sharing a customizable avatar's outfit or space

For customizable avatars—Synthesia's customizable avatars and Personal avatars from photo—sharing works at the Outfit or Space level, not the base persona:

1. Select the specific Outfit (or Space) you want to share—not the underlying avatar itself.
2. Open its 3-dot menu and select Share, then share with a team member or the entire workspace, the same way you would for any other avatar.

Shared Outfits appear with a Shared badge in the picker.

How to remove access to your avatar

For a specific user:

1. Open up the 3-dot menu and select Share.
2. Find the user in the list of users and click on the Shared dropdown.
3. Select the Remove option.

For the entire workspace:

1. Open up the 3-dot menu and select Share.
2. In the bottom-left of the Share menu, click on the Shared with _Your Workspace Name_ dropdown.
3. Select the Invite only option.

Adding a customizable avatar to your Brand Kit

You can assign a customizable avatar's Outfit to your workspace's Brand Kit, so it's easy to reuse consistently across videos. See Brand kits to learn more about setting up and managing your workspace's Brand Kit.

Permissions and notifications

• Avatar owners can grant and revoke access at any time.
• If someone shares an avatar with you, you'll get:
  • An email notification.
  • An in-product notification.

How to rename an avatar

Use the 3-dot menu on a Personal Avatar and select Rename to give it a new name. You can only rename Personal Avatars.

How to delete an avatar

You can delete Custom Avatars created with the Avatar Builder and your own Personal Avatars yourself.

Use the 3-dot menu on a Custom Avatar and select the Delete option to delete it. You will be prompted to confirm this action before the avatar is deleted.

You cannot delete Studio Avatars yourself.

To delete your Studio Avatar:

1. Copy the avatar ID by selecting the Copy ID option from the 3-dot menu.
2. Email Synthesia support and provide the avatar ID for the avatar you want to delete.

Shared avatars

You cannot delete avatars that have been shared with you. Instead, you'll have to remove yourself from the list of users the avatar has been shared with.

To remove your access to a shared avatar:

1. Go to the Avatars page in your Synthesia account.
2. Find the avatar you want to remove your access from.
3. Open up the 3-dot menu and select Share.
4. Find your name in the list of users and click on the Shared dropdown.
5. Select the Remove option.