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Want to personalize your videos like never before? With Digital Twins in HeyGen, you can create an avatar that looks and feels like you, right down to your style, expressions, and voice. It’s the most personal way to show up in your videos, without always being on camera.
Digital Twins are your digital double. By uploading short video footage of yourself, HeyGen’s AI creates a hyperrealistic avatar that mirrors your gestures, facial expressions, and natural delivery style. Once generated, your Digital Twin becomes part of your avatar library, ready to narrate any video you create.
Getting started is simple. Inside the Avatars tab, you can choose to use an existing Digital Twin or create a new one. Before recording, HeyGen provides clear instructions to guide you through the setup. You can follow along with a video or text version, depending on how you learn best.
To achieve the most realistic results, it’s important to capture high-quality footage. A short two-minute video works best, though you can experiment with as little as 30 seconds. Make sure the footage is well lit, recorded on a smartphone or high-res camera, and avoid dramatic or exaggerated movements. Keep your face visible, limit head turns, and use a plain background for best results. Once uploaded, you’ll review a checklist to confirm your footage meets the requirements. HeyGen also asks for a short consent video to prevent misuse, once completed, your Digital Twin will be generated and stored safely in your account.
Your Digital Twin is fully editable. Open the avatar in your library and you’ll have options to remove the background, change resolution, select or adjust a voice, and refine delivery with pitch, speed, and tone controls. Once saved, your edits carry through to every project where your Digital Twin is used.
You can also create multiple Looks for your Digital Twin. Looks are variations of the same avatar in different outfits, poses, backgrounds, or camera angles. They add variety and make your videos feel more natural and dynamic. New Looks can be added using video recordings or custom photos, and you can build up to 300 per avatar. When creating a video, simply choose your Digital Twin, then pick the Look that fits each scene. This flexibility allows you to scale your content while keeping it engaging and personal.
With Digital Twins, your presence can scale as easily as your content. Whether you’re training a global team, delivering customer updates, or producing social content, you can show up authentically in every video, without ever needing to hit record again.