Creating Custom Animated Characters and AI Avatars in Vyond By Enrique Olives on September 2, 2025Video content that features recognizable and relatable characters and “talking head” hosts engages audiences more effectively than generic, stock library alternatives.With Vyond’s powerful all-in-one video creation platform at your fingertips, creating custom animated characters and AI avatar narrators to reflect the roles, diversity, and real people in your workforce is easy.Let’s take a look at what’s possible in Vyond.Create custom AI avatar hostsVyond’s library of more than 1,100 AI avatars lets you add a narrator or company spokesperson, in a range of ethnicities and roles, to your videos with a simple text prompt and a click of a button. But if you’d like to customize an AI avatar host to be more unique (or on brand) than what we have in our library, you can also: Create a custom avatar based on a real person (here’s how) orUse our new Text to Avatar tool to create instant avatars (and backgrounds) built to your exact specifications, with a detailed text promptCreate custom avatars in VyondCreate custom (and on brand) animated charactersVyond’s huge asset library includes hundreds of stock animated characters representing hundreds of ethnicities, job roles, and activities in a wide variety of styles (Contemporary, Business Friendly, Whiteboard and more).But you can also easily create custom animated characters or talking heads that fulfill your need for a specific style or look with the Character Creator tool in Vyond Studio.Create custom characters in VyondOptions include: Characters with a wide range of facial features, hairstyles and clothing options Characters dressed in a range of cultural and religious attire, including yarmulkes for male characters, burkas, hijabs, turbans, saris, and kurtasCharacters wearing work-specific outfits for many industries: healthcare, retail, manufacturing, financial, and many moreYou can add logos to your characters’ clothing right in Vyond Studio – or ask our Product team to create one-of-a-kind branded characters for you.Learn more about Custom AssetsWhat’s the fastest way to create customized characters for videos?One of the easiest ways to create custom animated characters for videos is to use a user-friendly AI-powered video creation platform like Vyond which allows anyone – even people with zero video production experience – to make professional videos in a matter of minutes.Platforms like Vyond offer instant script and video creation (thanks, AI!), intuitive drag-and-drop tools, a character creator, and a text-to-avatar feature that lets you customize everything from facial features and clothing to accessories, backgrounds and poses. Just pick a style, personalize your character, and bring your story to life.What kinds of custom assets can Vyond create beside characters and avatars? Our Product team is also able to create custom backgrounds and scenes, based on company interiors and exteriors, custom brand suites to ensure your brand standards are being met, custom actions (like, say, a lifting motion for a work safety video), and custom props (think: tools, machinery and equipment.) For a quote, contact our sales team and they’ll happily walk you through the possibilities.Is GoAnimate and Vyond the same thing? If you came looking for GoAnimate and found Vyond, you’re still in the right place. From 2007 to 2018, Vyond was called GoAnimate. But then the company rebranded to Vyond to better reflect its focus on professional business communication, eLearning, and marketing videos rather than just casual animations. In 2024, the company further evolved from a business-focused animated video creation platform to an all-in-one AI video creation platform that features a wide variety of video styles, including mixed media, screen recording, photorealistic, AI avatars, in addition to animation. More from VyondVyond’s AI avatars. Your professional spokesperson on demand.AI tools for video creation.Instant, effortless video. AnyStyle. Every audience.
