Avatar | Ellen Peterson
The American Movie Company is using cutting-edge AI to create avatars of real people.
There are two versions of this:
A stock avatar is already created from the image, voice, and gestures of an actor. We have hundreds to choose from.
A photo-real AI avatar of a client with his/her image, voice, and natural gestures in a personalized environment
The advantages of the custom avatar are:
After a short one or two-hour video/audio recording of the subject, either in a studio or the client’s home or office, endless videos can be created afterwards.
New text can be used to realistically animate the avatar to speak with the subject’s actual voice in perfect sync with their image and natural gestures.
The technology lets the subject speak in 35 different languages. So one video on one topic can be cloned into many videos, each with the client speaking a different language, e.g., fluent Spanish, French, Mandarin, etc. (Here’s an early test.)
This is the process:
The client comes to a studio with a green screen and an area with chairs, desks, etc. The client brings several changes of clothing and is videoed in front of the green screen as well as in various other locations, such as at a desk, on a couch, standing, etc. This gives great variety in the subsequent videos.
An alternative would be sending our team to the client's home or office with a pop-up green screen.
Note: the green screen allows us to place the subject in an endless series of backgrounds after the fact: Executive office, penthouse with city view, etc, etc.
Or
We send a small crew to the client’s home or office. This has the advantage of authenticity. The client is in his/her real home or office behind his/hr actual desk, etc.
Prices:
The New York studio (10-hour day) with crew, camera, and sound gear is $3700 for the day. Of course, the day could be shared by one to three additional clients in a ten-hour day.
The shooting crew at the client’s office would be between $2.5K and 4K, depending on factors to be discussed at the time.
The post-production of the video with one text version is $2500
The individual videos created after the initial creation of the personal avatar would be $1500, with $350 for each additional language version.
We can post videos to social media if desired.
To recap, one video session capturing an individual's image, voice, and gestures takes just an hour or two. Then, an endless series of videos can be generated with the client reading different scripts in any of 35 languages.
If the stock avatar is chosen, the only difference is that the avatar is not unique to the client. But the cost is less, and all other advantages are the same.