# Character Keynote — workflow skill for talking heads & avatars

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One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Talking heads & avatars](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/talking-head.md)
- **Slug:** `varg-character-keynote`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/varg-character-keynote
- **Works in:** Claude.ai, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** varg MCP connection (render_video, get_job)
- **Cost:** ~400 credits / run (estimate) — Converted from the skill's own per-run figure.
- **Runtime:** 5–15 min

## What it does

A single `render_video` call makes an 8 s, 9:16 talking-speaker ad: Soul generates the character, nano_banana_2 the empty stage, and Seedance 2.5 animates both with native speech and applause. To make a new one the agent edits only three things in a fixed TSX template (the spoken `LINE`, the character prompt and the stage prompt), which keeps results consistent from run to run. It never launches a render without the user's explicit go-ahead.

## Use when

- A speaker or keynote-style UGC video with a custom character
- Swapping the character in the varg keynote template

## Not for

- Multi-scene stories: one render is one continuous 8 s action
- Videos that need on-screen text: the prompt keeps "no text on screen"

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
- Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a codex -y`
- Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a cursor -y`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a gemini-cli -y`
- OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-character-keynote`

**Models it drives:** soul, nano_banana_2, seedance_2_5

## Used for

- [Talking avatar or presenter](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/talking-avatar.md): A person (from a headshot, or generated) speaks your script to camera with lip-sync, in any language.

## More talking heads & avatars skills

- [Podcast Dialogue Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-podcast-video.md): Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [Talking Head Production](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md): Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- [AI Avatar Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md): Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice.
- [P-Video Avatar](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-p-video-avatar.md): Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.
- [AI Podcast Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md): Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.
- [Lanshu AI Presenter Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/lanshu-ai-presenter-video.md): Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles.