What’s New

Turn sprite-style characters into expressive avatar videos, with a round of Studio fixes that keeps uploads, character details, and paid access intact.

• Forum Avatar beta is temporarily paused while the rendering rollout is verified
• Images uploaded in Animate now save to My Puppets and remain available when you return
• Gallery characters keep their names through the Animate handoff
• Audio creation stays available when optional analysis fails and warns when leading silence may affect the result
• Browser translation no longer crashes Studio controls, and paid quotas and subscription access refresh correctly

Build text- and audio-driven video workflows through the API, and use a broader set of ready-to-teach science materials in English and Spanish.

• Developer API endpoints now create text- and audio-driven videos and expose job status
• Idempotent submissions and explicit retry guidance prevent accidental duplicate jobs
• API usage reports show quota, credit use, reset dates, and key-level activity
• The Education Hub now includes a complete Plant Science resource collection in English and Spanish
• America 250 templates provide a ready-made starting point for classroom and community videos

The highest-quality portrait pipeline is now the default, with simpler creation pages and more dependable voice and upload fallbacks.

• HD Portrait is now the default quality in Studio
• Studio creation and upgrade flows are cleaner and easier to scan
• Voice previews recover across providers and work more consistently for multilingual and cloned voices
• Mobile video uploads and voice selection have more reliable fallback behavior
• Homepage example videos can be opened on share pages and shared directly

Drag a procedural mouth and eyes onto any photo, add a voice clip, and render a talking cartoon MP4 with phoneme-accurate lip sync, natural blinks, and subtle body motion.

• Cartoon Studio at /studio/cartoon — drag mouth + eyes onto your puppet image, pick lip / iris colors, hit Render
• Phoneme-accurate lip sync — Whisper word timings drive each viseme so the mouth lands the right shape on each syllable
• Natural blinks at sentence pauses, head pivots on punctuation, eyebrow lifts on rising intonation
• 0.3 Hz breath bob + emphasis pulse on stressed words so the puppet feels alive even between words
• Quiet fillers stay relaxed and stressed words pop, courtesy of amplitude-gated mouth shapes
• Export and Import overlay configs as JSON so you can save and re-load placement work

Create multi-scene talking-head videos from any topic. AI writes the script with real web facts, assigns voices, and renders each scene.

• AI Stories — type a topic, get a multi-character video with web-grounded scripts
• Up to 10 scenes per story with different characters and voices
• Smart Voice Suggest — auto-matches voices to characters by personality
• Share pages with Twitter player cards and dynamic OG images
• Trending topic suggestions powered by real-time web search

Earn bonus creations through quests, try HD Portrait mode for higher-quality output, and enjoy 3 free videos per month.

• Quest system — earn up to 17 bonus creations (social shares, referrals, email verification)
• HD Portrait mode — higher quality output with smoother, more realistic lip sync
• Free tier upgraded from 1 to 3 creations per month
• 45+ free AI voices on all plans
• Smart error messages with actionable fix suggestions

Browse curated Pixar-style puppet collections and clone any voice from 30 seconds of audio.

• Fruit & vegetable puppet collections (Pixar 3D style)
• Voice cloning — upload 30s of audio to create your own voice
• SEO puppet pages with category browsing
• Improved face detection for stylized characters

Translate scripts into 65+ languages with a new side-by-side UI, full right-to-left layout support, and compare voices before committing.

• Side-by-side translation UI with real-time preview
• Full RTL layout support for Arabic, Hebrew, and more
• Voice comparison tool — audition multiple voices on the same script

Create multiple videos at once with batch mode, start faster with ready-made templates, and get AI-powered script suggestions.

• Batch video creation — generate up to 10 videos in one go
• Template library with curated starting points
• AI script suggestions powered by your topic and tone

Full-featured caption editor with style presets and auto-caption timing for more natural results.

• Caption Studio — edit, style, and position captions with presets
• Auto-caption timing sync for more natural results

Navigate the studio faster with keyboard shortcuts and enjoy improved screen reader support across all pages.

• Keyboard shortcuts for common studio actions
• Improved screen reader support and ARIA labels
• Focus indicators and skip-navigation links